Thursday, February 23, 2017

God is always in the Now

God does not experience time like man does. There is no yesterday or tomorrow for God. For God, everything happens Now. This removes the problem of God's foreknowledge and man's free will. We are free to act without God knowing what we are doing tomorrow because God is seeing our actions of tomorrow as we do them. But God sees our actions of today, yesterday and tomorrow Now. "He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but then the moment at which you have done it is already 'Now' for Him" (C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity)

On a separate and infuriating note, I tried to explain this to Erin to no avail. She simply disagreed with me over and over again.

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