GDR writes:
It's highly speculative, but if God's existence has more than one time dimension, (back, forward and maybe through), non-existence wouldn't have any meaning.
Straggler writes:
I have no idea what this even means.
This as I say is highly speculative but it helps me to grasp the idea of what eternal life might conceivably look like.
From Brian Greene I think it was, I learned that mathematical formulas tell us that time should be symmetrical, or in other ways we should be able to go backward and forward in time. (Two dimensions of time) If in addition there was a third dimension of time perhaps you could go from one point to another without passing through the time in between.
This would make time infinite and so a being that exists in 3 time dimensions would have always existed and so there wouldn't be a question of creation.
Take that for what it's worth, which is very little, but it helps me wrap my head around anything infinite. I know I'm leaving myself wind open with this.
Straggler writes:
But god(s) as prime over is just one of the potentially infinite possibilities. On what basis should we deem it any more or less likely than any of the conceivable alternatives? Or even the possibility of any inconceivable alternatives? And if it is one of an infinite array then just pure stats makes your particular claim unlikley to be true doesn't it?
I don't see it that way. I'm talking about a prime mover that is the first cause which would include being a first cause of a being from somewhere else in the universe who planted the seed of life here.
Straggler writes:
Untrue. The conceivable possibilities are vast.
Can you be more specific of what other possibilities that you are talking about.
Everybody is entitled to my opinion.