Andries Louis Joubert

Accomplished Christian apologist, William Lane Craig, believes that God was timeless before creation and temporal since creation. Both timelessness and temporality with regard to God has insuperable problems. If God is timeless, the world needs to be timeless as well or God would need to exit timelessness at a particular point in time (which is a contradiction). To put it another way, a timeless being cannot come out of timelessness because that would imply time. If there’s a moment when God ceases to be timeless, then time must have existed. If God remains timeless with the creation of the world, then the world must be timeless as well, because a timeless cause generates a timeless effect. But the world is not timeless. On the other hand, if God exists in time he must exist in space according to Special Relativity since spacetime is a unified reality. This implies that God must be a physical being somewhere in the cosmos, living on a planet somewhere, which is mythological. If God is a physical being, he would not have been able to create the cosmos (because he’s part of it). Christian philosophers might say that God inhabits a special kind of time different from our time, but not only is this ad hoc, it would also make it impossible for God to interact with his creation. No matter which option the Christian philosopher takes (timelessness or temporality) theism doesn’t make sense.