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Full Idea
To God there is neither past nor future, but all things are present.
Gist of Idea
All things are in the present time to God
Source
Augustine (Some Questions about time [c.420], 17), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 18.3
Book Ref
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.389
A Reaction
Presumably God's present was crowded, so He invented time to spread them out?
| 7603 | God is not a creator (involving time and change) and is not concerned with the inferior universe [Aristotle, by Armstrong,K] |
| 16702 | All things are in the present time to God [Augustine] |
| 22887 | If God existed before creation, why would a perfect being desire to change things? [Augustine, by Bardon] |
| 5976 | If God is outside time in eternity, can He hear prayers? [Augustine] |
| 16692 | Divine eternity is the all-at-once and complete possession of unending life [Boethius] |
| 22894 | If time were absolute that would make God's existence dependent on it [Leibniz, by Bardon] |
| 20712 | God is 'eternal' either by being non-temporal, or by enduring forever [Davies,B] |
| 15196 | God being inside or outside of time both raise a group of difficult problems [Le Poidevin] |
| 22941 | How could a timeless God know what time it is? So could God be both timeless and omniscient? [Le Poidevin] |