If God can't then he/she is not really omnipitent and not really that Godlike. If he/she can, and does, and interracts with our lives, doesn't that invalidate free will as whatever we do today could be undone yesterday ?
2007-01-22 09:08:43 · 35 answers · asked by traffert 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wow, fantastic response.... the majority of which go , 'linear time is a man made concept and God exists at all points in time simultaneously', therefore the question does not apply.
Unfortunately, deterministic causality is the only way a, sane, human can perceive his or her experience of live. Therefore to say God exists outside of this frame of reference is, once again, to say that we cannot know God. And if we cannot know God then he/she is irrelevant.
2007-01-22 09:31:37 · update #1
He can do anything we make him/her up to do, blind faith can believe in anything.
2007-01-22 09:14:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're assuming there is a forward and backward in time, that time is linear. As a matter of fact it is not. Time exists as a continuum, with all points in time and space existing simultaneously. It is simply the limitations of human consciousness that prevent us from realizing this and being able to experience everything at once.
Since God does not have such limitations, God exists everywhere in the time-space continuum simultaneously. So the question is not really relevant in God's case.
2007-01-22 09:15:43 · answer #2 · answered by parrotjohn2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't exist in time. HE is, was & will be for eternity. OUr minds cannot comprehend that because to us all things have a begining & and end... When God says I am the begining & the end, he means of Us. He created time, by creating the planets & us & we measure time/ we crated the measurement of time. God has no measurment of time, he see it all at once. If you move away from the planet time loses concept, with out the earth & the sun & the moon. It doesn't invalidate free will, he knows what decisions we will make before hand, what ever the decision is. He created EVERYTHING. He is in controll by allwoing what ever to be, that it will be. It says those in heaven, their names were written in the book of life, before anything ever existed. Try reading your Bible...Cover to cover. I promise that if you do that you will have a better understanding of this concept!
2007-01-22 09:17:06 · answer #3 · answered by Boppysgirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I say NO way. If you think I have anything to say.:)
I'd be really upset....
How long did you take to waste our time to think this one up.
There was GOD > > Right?
and of course he/she (H/S) had a perfect plan to have a party Right? :) BANG :] OK
What Einstein didn't pick up was H/S included H/S self into every particle.. hidden as another force, so infinitesimal ..Albert made up an x factor--- didn't think of H/S.
H/S doesn't do anything.! H/S just is waiting.!
We know we can not destroy matter that would kill H/S.
Think why should H/S,, want to do anything??? aren't us humans playing a wonderful game-show for H/S?
You gota admire the wars and genocide, the blood and guts, little children blown to bits,, wow !!
Did you ever wonder why??? religion???
And it all a joke!
2007-01-22 09:41:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God says of Himself that He is the Alpha and the Omega, The first anf the last, The beginning and the end. He said is any thing to hard for Me? God can do anything. It doesn't matter what it is.
He may not choose to do just anything but He can do it. The Bible teaches that the mysteries of God will go on thru out eternity
and we will never ever be board in Heaven. And if we draw nigh to Him while we are here we will not be board here either.
2007-01-22 09:16:58 · answer #5 · answered by justice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, God doesn't need to travel backwards (or forwards) in time. He is a spiritual being, not a physical one. That means he lives an atemporal and aspatial existence. He looks at time like we look at a road map, from the outside looking in.
Second, it would only invalidate free will if He changed our decisions for us. God intervenes on our behalf, but he doesn't force his will on us.
2007-01-22 09:15:52 · answer #6 · answered by Privratnik 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To answer that question is like asking which sin is worse, a lie or a murder. In God's sight it is all the same. God does not have our eyes or lifeline and therefore for us to limit God is to not know him. I look at it like this, and what the Bible says- God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, he never changes.
When you look down at people from a tall building, can you tell who is tall and who is short? Of course not, but in our earthly eyes, at street level, we can judge. Sin and time is looked at differently. Big sin, or little sin, it's all the same with God.
2007-01-22 09:19:43 · answer #7 · answered by northville 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God cannot travel back in time because time does not exist to God. God exists, period. God created man. Man made time (labeled the light and darkness into days and nights, hours and minutes, years...) What has happened, has happened.
Besides, why would God want to go back in time? To watch our mistakes again?
2007-01-22 09:16:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has no need to 'travel' back and forth through time. He exists in all frames and dimensions equally.
Humans are really the only creatures who consider the concept of 'time.'
2007-01-22 09:14:06 · answer #9 · answered by Rachel M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are assuming that God goes back into the past as we know it and interacts with it. God is aware and has complete knowledge of both past and future, but interacts with the present. So no that doesn't invalidate freewill.
2007-01-22 09:22:21 · answer #10 · answered by Bruce Leroy - The Last Dragon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wonder what would happen if He went back in time and killed my grandpa.
Anyway what is your definition of a god? They have to be able to do everything, including the impossible? I don't believe anyone goes back in time. What's done is done and all the matter in the universe is already changed. All we have is the present.
2007-01-22 09:12:59 · answer #11 · answered by Atlas 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋