Thanks for the ping! Personally I believe in God despite the fact that one can not prove the existance to a non-believer. The other fact is that no one can disprove God either. God is beyond our comprehension. The Bible explains to us what God wants us to know at this time, and God constantly reveals more to us individually if we seek. Free will can exist only if fate is limited. Therefore, I don't believe that time exist in a linear fashion, and can not be travelled in at any rate or direction other than what we are already travelling in it. If freewill exist than the future is unwritten, and therefore does not exist until we create it. Fate still exist in the aspect of cause and effect. For example, you can't change where a road leads, but you can change the road you are on. Every action has a reaction. So God knows the future because he knows the consequences of our choices, yet he gives us the power to alter that future. In His image, we are creators too. I don't believe we travel to past either. Time is a creation of man to measure the distance between cause and effect. The only time that truely exist is NOW. Its always now.
Interesting responses.
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Free will can exist only if fate is limited.
The only time that truely exist is NOW. Its always now.
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I am not sure quite what you mean by the first statement, but I believe that as Free Will is expanded the universe becomes MORE complex and unpredictable.
Your second statement is similar to the Buddhist perspective. Yet, your emphasis on God leads me to believe you mesh the two perspectives in a similar way to what was done in this paper. At the end there are some comparisons of Buddhism and Christianity.