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Full Idea
Could a timeless being now know what the time was? If so, does this show that there must be something wrong with the idea of God as both timeless and omniscient?
Gist of Idea
How could a timeless God know what time it is? So could God be both timeless and omniscient?
Source
Robin Le Poidevin (Travels in Four Dimensions [2003], 09 'Questions')
Book Ref
Le Poidevin,Robin: 'Travels in Four Dimensions' [OUP 2003], p.147
A Reaction
This is a potential contradiction between the perfections of a supreme God which I had not noticed before. Leibniz tried to refute such objections, but not very successfully, I think.
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| 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] |