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Originally Posted by analog
As many have pointed out... just because god knows what's going to happen, doesn't mean those events weren't your choice. If god is really god, then god would be completely omniscient- and omniscience defies all concepts of "time". "Time", itself, being a human invention, not a force in nature. "Time" exists because we like being able to know when things happened. Time is not a rock, or a tree, or something measurable. We can only "keep" or "measure" time because we've stated at some point, "for every instance of ______, that is what we will call one second". Since time is an idea, there is no reason to doubt it's total lack of consequence to a god.
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Time as a human invention? And this makes it not a force of nature?
I'm not sure I follow this reasoning.
Aren't numbers and letters human inventions? Does that lessen their impact on our lives?
I would argue that time is something measurable the fact that we have units of time.. minutes seconds, millenia take your pick shows that it exists. Why is a tree more real than an hour and a half. I was born. I am now middleages/38/halfway through current life expaectancy.. doesn't this prove that time exists?