On God's Life as a Non-Temporal Being
Mood:  chatty
Topic: General Religion
Every once in a while I think about what it must be like to be a being such as God is who is outside of time. The fact that God is outside of time has a few ramifications. First of all, it means that God experiences everything in time at the same time. By being outside of time He knew the last thing that would ever happen at the same time that He knew the first thing that happened. It's very hard to get your head around it.

So I wonder, what does He do? Does He skip around? This means, also that He knows the outcomes of every action at the moment that the action begins. Does this mean that interventions ripple through to the end? Or does it mean that all of the interventions that were going to happen were built in at the beginning?

In the end, I don't know if that makes any difference. I think it takes someone like Einstein to actually understand what this means. I can't even begin to think about how thinking about things and God this way affect anything - if it does.

The only thing I can think of is whether it has to do with Free Will. I will probably make this another post, but it seems that for every example of free will in Christian philosophy there tends to be an example of determinism. Like I said, I'll probably talk about this in another post and I'll also bring in some non-Christian sources in my attempts to figure out just whether or not we have free will and whether it matters that we do. (not that I think it's possible that I'd solve the problem when dozens of lifetime philosophers were unable to, but perhaps I can get a little close? q;o) )