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Examining how an atemporal God (i.e. God operating in one mode) could relate with a temporal creation (i.e. God operating or appearing in a second mode) may offer fresh insights for scientific researchers, philosophers, and theologians that are open to God actively engaging in our world.
- Jim (James D.) Johansen
I.e., God is either temporal or atemporal. Here I will briefly present these two main views, then I will look at some attempts to combine them. My own view is in this last category. I. GOD IS TIMELESS The view that God is timeless is called atemporalism and eternalism.
Is God an atemporal being who doesn’t exist in time at all? Or is God rather an everlasting being who exists omnitemporally – at every time? The Scripture doesn’t make that clear. Therefore this issue is one that must be resolved by philosophical theology. We need to look at arguments for and against divine timelessness and temporality.
It argues that God is temporal, not atemporal. He is not timeless, but timeful. This paper explores God’s eternity, the relationship of God with time, and how God can engage our world in time. Some ask whether God can be in time with creation or not. This paper offers a possible integrative approach. The paper is structured as follows.
Many theists reject the notion that God’s eternity consists in his timelessness — i.e., in his lacking temporal extension and failing to possess properties at any times. Some of these “divine temporalists” hold that, for philosophical reasons, it is impossible to accept
With respect to the doctrine of God, the key question is whether God is in or out of time. The two poles of thought are temporalist and atemporalist notions of God’s nature. Temporalist notions of God place Him within the flow of sequential events, while atemporalist theories of God place Him outside of time in the “eternal now.” Atemporalism
Sep 19, 2024 · To say that God is temporal is to hold that God never began to exist, and he will never go out of existence. God does, however, experience temporal succession. That is, God experiences some events (e.g., the first century) before he experiences other events (e.g., the twenty first).
