Scripture, God, and Time An Extra Department of Philosophy Colloquium Talk

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The Bible seems to depict God doing some things before others.  Further, it applies past and future tenses to God (“in the beginning was the Word”). Thus many recent thinkers hold that the Biblical God is in time, and that divine timelessness is foreign to the Bible.

This claim is too simple.  Some texts which seem to depict a temporal God may well not, and on a legitimate reading, one passage in Scripture requires divine timelessness.  The Biblical evidence points both ways, to some extent, and it is a contentious interpretive matter whether to prioritize texts that favour divine temporality or texts that point to timelessness.