Review: Time and Eternity: Exploring God's Relationship to Time

            Time and Eternity: Exploring God’s Relationship to Time by William Lane Craig is a readable book, but one to think through and come back to.

The major issue – as one would expect – is God’s relationship to time. Craig gives the following options:

Is God temporal or timeless?

Put another way, is God dynamic or static?

Still another way, is God tensed or tenseless?

Craig walks the reader through what each of these distinctions means and why he favors one over another.

He then moves on to the issue of God and creation. Craig argues that Creation must occur within time (thus there is a problem with the theory of the “big bang”), and time had to have a beginning. If this is not true, the self-existence of God is at risk.

Finally, he considers whether God’s foreknowledge is open or actual – and where human responsibility falls in each of these views.

Craig looks at what are in many ways – the basic issues that one needs to think through and to begin to grasp God’s relationship to time. It is a great place to begin thinking about these issues.

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