How do you use such an argument of time when you must posit the authority of past/future events? It seems if what we establish as their relationship being non existence and this is the authority for which we make the claim then time remains even when the sun burns out. ‘Now’ then cannot be reduced to it being a moment of time. Otherwise time does exist. It’s just simply a specific sum of motion. Some thing passing through time. Therefore time. It does not follow that because things that no longer exist don’t exist now that they didn’t have existence because of time. In getting rid of time so too goes everything else! A soft version simply can make note of the fact that no moment in time is absolute therefore time is an irrelevant concept concerning God’s nature or existence. But time is still real. From this the question can still be answered. Creation is not limited by time since time is merely a property of things. Therefore God doesn’t operate in the field of whether past present or future events happen. Neither whether relative to light cones and physical laws. God is not subject to other things existing and is not identical to them. Call this dualist if you must I call it relative subordinate being. God is not merely outside the world but equally it’s creator. What happens in time from our point of view comes about through God’s good pleasure from his eternity therefore God is not bound by any past events ever. Augustine did his best against the Manikians but ultimately failed. Thus why St Thomas had to reconcile Aristotle with Augustinien thought!
How do you use such an argument of time when you must posit the authority of past/future events? It seems if what we establish as their relationship being non existence and this is the authority for which we make the claim then time remains even when the sun burns out. ‘Now’ then cannot be reduced to it being a moment of time. Otherwise time does exist. It’s just simply a specific sum of motion. Some thing passing through time. Therefore time. It does not follow that because things that no longer exist don’t exist now that they didn’t have existence because of time. In getting rid of time so too goes everything else!
A soft version simply can make note of the fact that no moment in time is absolute therefore time is an irrelevant concept concerning God’s nature or existence. But time is still real. From this the question can still be answered. Creation is not limited by time since time is merely a property of things. Therefore God doesn’t operate in the field of whether past present or future events happen. Neither whether relative to light cones and physical laws. God is not subject to other things existing and is not identical to them. Call this dualist if you must I call it relative subordinate being. God is not merely outside the world but equally it’s creator. What happens in time from our point of view comes about through God’s good pleasure from his eternity therefore God is not bound by any past events ever. Augustine did his best against the Manikians but ultimately failed. Thus why St Thomas had to reconcile Aristotle with Augustinien thought!