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There’s another reality we can’t deny; that past events actually occurred, and are therefore real. I know I woke up this morning, because here I am; awake. Therefore, the tensed theory is not true.To me time is not a real thing. The only reality that we cannot deny is that we experience events. We attach a time to new events so called now, past in my opinion is dead and future does not exist. What we feel about time is illusory thing related to rate at which we comprehend events.
Yes, in an abstract way. It means that moments still would pass forward. There simply wouldn’t be anyone or anything to measure them, except God. However, on the tensed theory, the measuring of moments is little more than a fiction, since only the present moment exists. Yet, I know that my watch is right when it counts three seconds in a row. Therefore, the tensed theory is not true.To me time cannot be created since it is not real. Once creation is performed events occurs which means there is a concept of time. Can you imagine the creation of only time and nothing else?
God doesn’t literally -know individual actions- as though they were propositions in his mind. Rather, the truth of all actions is present to him -as the whole of truth.- However, on the tensed theory, nothing would be true on a permanent basis, since the present would be in a state of continual change, and therefore God’s knowledge of truth could not be non-propositional or eternal, -even before (in a causal sense)- time came to exist. Therefore, the tensed theory is not true.I meant that God knowledge of our action leads to determinism. The argument is in fact very simple: Creation is made of things (moves based on laws of nature) and beings (who decide but God knows their decisions). This means state of creation can be know in a latter time given state creation in earlier time which leads to determinism.
Yes; that’s the view of William Lane Craig, which I’ve just responded to by drawing attention to its many intrinsic contradictions. It also punts to meta-time, in order to explain how a “timeless” being can “change,” without being in some form of time, which is an unparsimonious extrapolation, which can’t work, because it would lead to an infinite regress. Therefore, the tensed theory is not true.God performed creation in timeless state and then get involved with the changes namely entered into time.
Yet the bible clearly states that God is well aware of future happenings; particularly in his dealings with the prophets, where he reveals one prophecy after another to the people, all but one of which came true (and that one was because the people repented in time.) As you say, God can’t know the future unless it has some truth content, and it can’t have truth content unless it is, in some sense, real. Yet, the tensed theory implies that the future is not real. Therefore, the tense theory is not true.State of creation is subject to change. Future does not exist which means that the knowledge related to it should be updated which means that omniscience is subject to change.
God’s having a non-propositional knowledge of all truth does not violate free will, in the same sense that my having a non-propositional knowledge of baseball wouldn’t violate the free will of the baseball players. Knowledge is not a causal force. You’re right about one thing, however. Unless the future is real, human beings have no free will, because unless your choices have effects, at least within your mind, you have no freedom to make choices at all. Yet, the effects of our current choices don’t exist until the choices themselves no longer do. Therefore, one can’t claim that the choice and its effect are related in any sense. Therefore, on the tensed theory, human choices are ultimately temporary and unrelated to their effects. Therefore, the tensed theory is not true.This is against free will, at least in my opinion God could not know our decisions hence cannot know the truth.
In summary, guess you can see that I find the tensed theory highly dubious at best, and if you’ll notice, I have many good reasons for thinking that.