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Full Idea
If nothing existed by God before creation, then what could have happened to, or within, God that led God to decide to create the universe at that particular moment? Why would an eternal or perfect being want or need to change?
Gist of Idea
If God existed before creation, why would a perfect being desire to change things?
Source
report of Augustine (Confessions [c.398]) by Adrian Bardon - Brief History of the Philosophy of Time 1 'Augustine's'
Book Ref
Bardon,Adrian: 'Brief History of the Philosophy of Time' [OUP 2013], p.24
A Reaction
I suppose you could reply that change is superior to stasis, but then why did God delay the creation?
| 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] |