sidelined writes:
I do not think that (the) concept of eternity as grasped by humans is the problem but,rather, the difficulty posed by stating that God had no beginning.
If God had no beginning then how can he have progressed through time to reach any future event as this would indicate that time had passed for God which indicates that some moment in the past must be referenced and that,in turn, means that his existence cannot have extended infinitely into the past.
Why does time have to pass for God? Why couldn't God pass for time? If God is unchanging, time itself is not the reference point for Gods explanation---rather, God is the reference point for times contrast.
"In The Beginning" indicates a particular point in time. It makes no sense to imagine a time before God.
It makes more sense to imagine a God before time...that is, any given point in time.
If God was, is, and always will be, this does not simply mean that time is finite or that time=God. This means that God is the reference point...the positive truth claim, if you prefer...that potentially existed before any human even had the ability to think that there was a choice to consider an alternative. I suppose I could summarize by saying that "potentially, God Is"...regardless of our conclusion or speculation that "potentially, God is Not". The positive truth claim is in reality a totalitarian truth claim.
Edited by Phat, : fixed quote