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2007-04-27 13:44:21 · 19 answers · asked by Steve 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry I'm just now getting back to you all. The point is that God did not created time at a point in time (since that would imply that time already existed). Similarly, God did not created free will (in that it does not exist).
2007-04-27 16:40:31 · update #1
Free will cannot exist without a concept of time. The whole notion of "before" God created time seems paradoxical.
I don't believe that God is outside of time. If He were, there could be no free will, despite all of the excuses and rationalizations that theologians make.
Strangely, the Bible says nothing of God's relationship to time. That was a decision made later on, by theological "experts".
2007-04-27 13:59:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I choose to answer this seriously. According to Genesis chapter 1, God created light, and that time was called the morning and the evening. So time was created first. Human beings with free will were created on the sixth day.
If you are talking about God's free will, well, it existed before He created time on earth.
2007-04-27 20:50:59 · answer #2 · answered by Steve Husting 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God created time before he created free will.
2007-04-27 20:53:40 · answer #3 · answered by rss_beatty 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Create time? It just is. Free will? It's granted, for a time.
2007-04-27 21:03:50 · answer #4 · answered by JohnFromNC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is no joke. God gave all mankind free will, or agency, long before time as we know it came into existence.
Lucifer soon learned that his free will was there, but he had to accept the consequences for his actions. That was before the earth was formed.
2007-04-27 20:49:12 · answer #5 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God created the big bang which is the begining of space and time.
To Eldritch: We can predict tomorrow's weather, but we can't control it, right? God knows the future, but we still have the free will.
2007-04-27 20:48:55 · answer #6 · answered by Gone 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God did not create time....humans did.
Peace, Love, and Blessings
Greenwood
2007-04-27 20:48:50 · answer #7 · answered by Greenwood 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Since God created everything that *is*, *was* or *ever shall be*, including time, what difference does it make?
2007-04-27 20:58:03 · answer #8 · answered by trebor namyl hcaeb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know there's a "catch" to this one, but it's too early in the morning for me...it's gone completely over my head. I'm assuming you have to have "time" in order to get the time to exercise your "free will". If you don't have any time to exercise your "free will", and "time" wasn't created until after FW......"we have a problem, Houston?"
p.s. "We?" "We have a problem?" "That would be YOU have a problem, Apollo, I'm quite happy sitting down here in Houston with my coffee and cigarettes."
2007-04-27 20:52:42 · answer #9 · answered by Spikey and Scruffy's Mummy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are referring to His free will, he has had it since negative infinity so it was never "created". If you are referring to our free will, it was after time was created since we were created after that
2007-04-27 20:53:46 · answer #10 · answered by Zefram 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋