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Interesting. This reminded me of a sermon I once heard by Dr. Charles F Stanley describing the omniscient being of God in which he said that God can see the past, the present and future as if they are one. He even knows everything that coulda happened, or woulda happened if this or that had happened. Everything. I think this ties into the fact that He is literally the Spirit of Truth. Which means that He knows all truth.

I believe the theorist is touching on truth as a whole, but the detailed explanations for the theory are faulty and not true. Atheist stumble on the truth of God sometimes without realizing it. As in "big bang theory". In a flash, where once nothing existed, suddenly everything existed.

1 posted on 09/26/2018 10:02:23 PM PDT by User900
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This theory is not new.

It is just the journalist is an idiot


2 posted on 09/26/2018 10:06:13 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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Similar to something I’ve already heard. Try to explain why we only remember the past, and not the future.


3 posted on 09/26/2018 10:08:58 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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nothing new for Christians. this is just a wordy restatement what God already created.


4 posted on 09/26/2018 10:09:34 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: User900

This works well with the Eastern Orthodox church. And with a beloved author of mine - Robert Lanza.


5 posted on 09/26/2018 10:11:03 PM PDT by MarMema
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Not new nor controversial....Eisenstein postulated the eternal now which implies the existence of past, present, and future simultaneously. He also postulated infinite nows....that in this instant while the might be in a traffic accident with a particular outcome in another universe or expression of now I did not get in the accident at all

Provides for interesting thought experiments


6 posted on 09/26/2018 10:13:56 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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I think that’s what Horshack said in that Welcome Back, Kotter episode...

“What is? is. What was? will be. What will be *was*, but will be again.”


7 posted on 09/26/2018 10:14:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“The block universe theory says that our universe may be looked at as a giant four-dimensional block of spacetime, containing all the things that ever happen...”

Almost. I’d say it’s not just “all the things that ever happen”, it’s all the things that ever could happen.


9 posted on 09/26/2018 10:18:23 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being.


10 posted on 09/26/2018 10:20:28 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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C.S. Lewis wrote about this 75 years ago in “Mere Christianity.”


11 posted on 09/26/2018 10:20:47 PM PDT by norcal joe
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Sure, but philosophy is one thing and real life is another.

Philosophers and theologians have long had trouble with the idea of free will, but ordinary mortals have to believe that they can change their fate through their actions.

16 posted on 09/26/2018 10:42:31 PM PDT by x
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The movie “Arrival” demonstrated this concept. Aliens arrive from the future and attempt to teach humans that past, present, future exist simultaneously, that they experience time non-linearly. Weird movie, but gets you to think about the concept.


23 posted on 09/26/2018 11:03:50 PM PDT by roadcat
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24 posted on 09/26/2018 11:18:22 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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28 posted on 09/27/2018 12:02:51 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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In Hebrew, Jews omit forms of the infinitive, To Be, because it is close to the name of God.

Thus, a person would say, I John, not I am John; the word, am, is implied.

The name of God, I Am, could be rendered as: I Was, Am, and Will Be.


32 posted on 09/27/2018 12:35:41 AM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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This author does not understand consciousness.

Time collapses as Life is like a roll of toilet paper in that the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.


34 posted on 09/27/2018 1:16:23 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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bump- but you all knew i was gonna do that beign that you cvan see into the past


35 posted on 09/27/2018 1:19:52 AM PDT by Bob434
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Time is not just a function of the speed if light.

Time is a function of the frequency of consciousness divided by the speed of light. As consciousness frequency increases. Time collapses.

Einstein knew this but failed to use it in his famous equation, thus E= m×Csquared is wrong.


36 posted on 09/27/2018 1:20:08 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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God corralled us in a time line while He resides in Eternity where all things/events/past/present/future are available to Him


38 posted on 09/27/2018 3:37:42 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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God created time.
God exists outside of His creation.
He can do with it, what he wants.
Y’all are screwed.
Faith...Cross...Resurrection


40 posted on 09/27/2018 4:25:44 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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I am not a fan of this theory because I don’t like to think I’m little more than some animated character going through the motions that are already scripted for me. Not a fan of anything that says we humans have no free will. I don’t think that’s God’s plan for us, it would make us little more than puppets on strings.


49 posted on 09/27/2018 6:07:00 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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