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Can God live outside of time?
It is often argued that something can exist outside of time. In a way, this is true, but the thing that exists outside of time
must be completely static. There is no ability for something to change state outside of time since such a change would create time all by itself.
Time is the measure of distance between events. Without events, there is no time, and without time there are no events. This is simply the way it is and there is no way around it. It doesn’t matter what dimension or universe you live in, if there are things happening, there is time.
Imagine a cube that had the ability to change from a cube to a sphere and back. This cube lasts eternally, was never created, and is said to live outside of time and space. Forgetting for a moment that you can’t have a cube or a sphere outside of space since dimensions require dimensions, notice that the cube never changes to a sphere. The reason for this is the fact that it would be an event for the cube to change into a sphere, and that event would create a time line that would go infinitely forward and backward. A single change in state, no matter how small, or how short in duration, creates time, and there is no way around it.
Without time, you can do nothing. You can’t think, you can’t create, you can’t destroy, you can’t get happy, you can’t get sad. There would be no speaking things into existence. There would be no thinking things into existence. There would be nothing at all except existing statically. This means that there is no way that anything lives outside of time that can do things.
Now, can there be multiple time lines? Of course there can. In fact, in a sense, we are experiencing 4 different time lines right now. Imagine a point expanding across one dimensional space in a line. This is the first dimensional time line. Now imagine a one dimensional line segment expanding perpendicular to itself to form a square. This would be the 2 dimensional time line. Imagine a square moving up in order to form a cube, this would be a 3 dimensional time line. These can all be used as time lines.
A first dimensional being could never see itself at all since a point technically takes up no space, but its movement through one dimensional space could be considered time. A 2 dimensional being could not see itself either since a line technically has no thickness, but imagine that it could, it would only be able to see one dimension of itself. It would look like line segments getting larger and smaller while moving through the second dimension. A three dimensional being could only see two dimensions of itself, and we, as fourth dimensional beings can only see 3 dimensions of ourselves, and the changes we see are merely us moving through the fourth dimension.
It is difficult to imagine, but if there were a fifth dimensional being, we would be able to see a static version of the entire fourth dimension. We may not see movement in the 4th dimensional entity since it would exist all at the same time, but if it made any changes to 4 dimensional things it would necessarily have to move across the fifth dimension. Now, knowing that we are moving through the fourth dimension, that means there are events happening not only in our dimension, but in all higher dimensions as well. This means that anything that has the ability to interact with this dimension, is also changing and is connected inextricably with our time line.
Now, not only have we shown how a thing can’t do anything if it has no time, but a situation where it can’t interact with our dimension without time or space. If it is outside our space, it can’t interact with it. I don’t care if it’s merely done with thought. The mere fact that we would be in the same space as something else means it somehow experiences our time. Suddenly, the outside of time and space thing sounds rather silly.
Will this deter any believer from asserting that their God lives somehow outside of time and space? Not on your life. What it will do is give you the ability to understand why this is just a silly claim. People that believe in God must create these impossible things in order for their idea to be true, but it is merely an illustration of how little they know about what they are saying when they make such claims.
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I'll leave this subject for now. And I do apologize to you for causing any distress. It was not my intention.
