Seeing where this going and already know your fundamentals, I’ll just jump a few dozen pages and ask you to explain why would a timeless being, in which reason demands that time is contingent from a timeless source, is restricted to time once the act of creation takes place?
Why would God’s creation of us also determine everything we ever did? There is no connection between the two events. You haven’t even tried to explain a connection because you can’t.
I haven’t got the slightest idea why this would have any relevance to anything I said, but I’ll try to answer your question anyway.
Well, since you obviously haven’t read my ‘bombastic nonsense’ I won’t bother trying to explain it. The explanation is in my bombastic nonsense.
How do you explain the fact that I use my ‘free will’ differently than you?
A timeless being is outside of the spacetime. The timelessness is still valid for the being.
Okay, in looking at this part
I think that sufficiently answers the question I asked on semantics.
:extrahappy::extrahappy:If the timelessness is valid for the being, then said being cannot influence time once time is around.
Well, if I lost it, it means that I used to have, which is more than I can say about some posters around here.belorg has definitely lost it!
So does a virtual particle.Simple. You have free will.
When making a statement like this, I can only doubt that you have ever made a successfully reasonable argument.
As usual, you don’t even have a clue what I am talking about.
Are there any writings on this proposition that I, or others, can read to understand the entirety of this point?
This is a logical consequence of the Aristotelean (and Thomist) concept of God as a-temporal and unchanging. Once time is set in motion, the only way to influence anything in time would be by changing your mind; something an unchanging being by definition cannot do.
I am not gravitating to a calvinistic-like stance. I am telling you that your position of a God controlling everything through ‘intermediate causes’ leads to a Calvinistic stance.
You should take that up with Calvinists.
No, that is not my stance. I am not even talking about foreknowledge here.
Proper understanding of eternity and pure act inevitably leads to an Aristotelean deist God.
Why not? God is creator of the timespace. As the Creator he can influence His creation.
Not true. From God’s point of view He knows movement of the whole universe and everything what is in it from the beginning of the time till its end. He is not changing anything. He is not changing His mind.
I do not think you realize this, Jaaanosik, but you are in fact saying exactly the same thing as I. The universe what it is at creation and will never be any different. So God is in total control of everything. God set the whole universe in motion and can rest on His two ears for eternity. As I said, a deist God.
Yes, we experience the universe as changing and we experience ‘free will’, but that’s because we are limited by spacetime.
Of course not; you can’t expect somebody to understand nonsense.
Not exactly. God sustains the universe in being. It does not exist by its own power.