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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Question of the Week #932: Divine Eternity and Omnipresence

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

Thank you for your podcast.

0:15.0

I really enjoy listening and thinking through each episode, and I often share them with my friends.

0:22.4

My question is, in regards to God's omnipresence and your view of God entering into time.

0:29.4

Does God experience time dilation when present near a black hole, or, on board, a space

0:36.0

station orbiting the earth, with time slowing down, while simultaneously

0:41.0

experiencing lesser time dilation when present on Earth, with a relatively faster time

0:47.4

rate to the previous example. Or is God, being immaterial, not affected by such time dilations?

0:55.8

One of the examples you have used illustrating God being in time is that God knows that

1:00.8

it is now 6 p.m., then 6.01 p.m. and so on.

1:06.5

But clocks, and, as I understand it, time itself, move at different rates due to time dilation.

1:13.8

What information am I missing?

1:16.3

Further, are there different models of God's omnipresence, and where would I learn about

1:21.2

his omnipresence a little more deeply than the average layman?

1:25.4

Though I am still very much a layman. Thank you for your time. I look forward to

1:31.1

volume one of your philosophical systematic theology, and I already purchased a copy of your

1:37.0

inquest of the historical Adam, as Genesis 1 through 11 is one of those questions in a bag on the shelf.

1:45.4

I want to start investigating soon.

1:48.1

Thank you for your ministry.

1:50.1

I pray that God continues to bless it and the systematic theology project you have been working on for so long now.

1:58.1

Connor from the United States.

2:00.3

These sorts of questions will be dealt with in the second volume of my systematic philosophical

2:06.6

theology on the attributes of God.

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