On growing block, substances get temporally larger as time passes. For instance, I am now about 53 years long, and in another year I will be about 54 years long.
But how does that happen with God simply if Growing Block is true?
The way I see it, God could simply be growing in knowledge (which is a relational change; the same that happens when God learns that he has created a world with such and such, hence why every theist who believes creation is contingent also accepts that God grows in knowledge). No issues there.
I suppose you could say God grows older, but this isn't a problem unless one thinks that God has only existed for X amount of years (as if God's beginning in time were God's beginning of existence)
You are a four-dimensional being. On growing block, every day, 24 hours gets added to your temporal dimension. Thus, you are constantly growing. If God is in time in the same sense in which you are, then every day, 24 hours gets added to God's temporal dimension.
Of course, one might suppose that God is in time in a different sense from you and me being in time.
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1 seems false.
How does God grow?
God grows in knowledge, but this is true for any theist who believes creation is contingent, anyway.
On growing block, substances get temporally larger as time passes. For instance, I am now about 53 years long, and in another year I will be about 54 years long.
But how does that happen with God simply if Growing Block is true?
The way I see it, God could simply be growing in knowledge (which is a relational change; the same that happens when God learns that he has created a world with such and such, hence why every theist who believes creation is contingent also accepts that God grows in knowledge). No issues there.
I suppose you could say God grows older, but this isn't a problem unless one thinks that God has only existed for X amount of years (as if God's beginning in time were God's beginning of existence)
You are a four-dimensional being. On growing block, every day, 24 hours gets added to your temporal dimension. Thus, you are constantly growing. If God is in time in the same sense in which you are, then every day, 24 hours gets added to God's temporal dimension.
Of course, one might suppose that God is in time in a different sense from you and me being in time.
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