Cosmologic philosophy: what is time (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, January 25, 2017, 13:43 (2642 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: So God doesn’t realize there is a before and after.

DAVID: Of course He does, but it doesn't matter to Him in our human terms.

dhw:I envy you your knowledge of what goes on in your God’s mind. He recognizes the difference between before and after, but what he recognizes does not exist. Why not?

DAVID: It does exist. Before and after is of no consequence to Him. He is not human.

dhw: I don’t see how recognition of before, now and after makes him human.

DAVID: Because it matters to us, not Him.

I think we can agree that God is not human. And since we have also agreed on a definition of time, we should be able to agree now that it is meaningless to say God is “outside time”, and wrong to say time does not exist. You simply happen to know that although time exists, and God participates in its passing by creating befores and afters, he doesn’t care about it. I wonder what else you happen to know about what matters and doesn't matter to your God!