>From: Moorad Alexanian <alexanian@uncwil.edu>
> It seems to me that if in a novel the death of one of the characters has
> some significance in the overall plot of the book, then how much more the
> death of a real person in God's creation.
Yes, I agree. Did you think I would not?
> I think C.S. Lewis gives a good
> argument for placing God outside of time. For Him all our actions, past,
> present, and future are an Eternal Now.
I have been told this all of my life. To be candid, it never made sense to
me, and it still doesn't.
> One can get a sense of this when we
> draw a path in four-dimensional space-time where the whole time evolution
> appears as a single curve where position at particular times are fully
> displaced.
In the presence of authentic contingency, this makes sense only for world
lines that represent the past, not the future.
Howard Van Till
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