Rather than holding that God is everlastingly eternal, and, therefore, he exists at each time, this position is that God exists but he does not exist at any time at all. He never came into existence and he will never go out of existence but he exists within time. He exists at the present moment (and he has existed at each past moment and he will exist at each future moment.) In August, he was thinking about the heat wave in the mid-west. Stop fighting sleepy time if your brain defaults to siesta mode whenever thinking too hard comes into play. God’s existence without creation is a timeless existence but once temporal reality comes into existence, God himself must change. God’s timelessness without creation is precisely due to the fact that time came into existence with creation. The fall of Rome is not, however, occurring at the same time that my coffee spills. God’s relation to time, however, is a topic about which there continues to be deep disagreement.

God does, however, experience temporal succession. Second, it is thought that God does not experience temporal succession. Another view is that God is “omnitemporal.” It is true on this view as well that God is not in our time, but he experiences temporal succession in his being. Therefore, the observation talk, as well as the reference frame talk, must be only analogous or metaphorical. 3. for some observer, B, in one of the infinitely many temporal reference frames, x and y are both present – that is, either x is observed as eternally present and y is temporally present, or vice versa. This version of the principle eliminates the observation difficulties but continues to use the notion of reference frames to describe the timeless and the temporal states. If he changes, then he is, at least in some sense, temporal. He did not first hear them and then answer them.

They use a different calendar – known as the “meteorological calendar.” On it, the year is divided into four seasons lasting three months each, with spring beginning on March 1 and then lasting through April and May. Both of these centuries are experienced by God in one “timeless now.” So, while it is true that in the thirteenth century Aquinas prayed for understanding and received it, God’s response to his prayers is not something that also occurred in that century. Across the globe, sculptors produce permanent works of art and work on a variety of materials like stone, bronze, clay, wood, metal, steel etc. While making sculptures, sculptors use different techniques and methods such as tempera, sandblasting, enamel and oil-painting. He points out that they admit that the use of relativity theory is a heuristic device and nothing more. Alan Padgett (1992) has argued that Stump and Kretzmann cannot be defending anything more than a loose analogy with relativity theory here. Philosophers have complained about obscurity of the use of “reference frame” terminology (for example, Padgett 1992). There is clearly an analogy with relativity theory at work here. God’s time (metaphysical time) has no intrinsic metric and is constituted purely by the divine life itself (Padgett 1992, 2001; DeWeese 2002, 2004). If God is omnitemporal, his metaphysical time does map in some way onto our physical time.

One day during delivering his sermon, Shams Tabriz came to him and asked about book that Rumi was holding at that time. By the time of Martin Luther, Christian catechisms organized these aspects of religious life in terms of the “three C’s”: the creed one believed, the cult or worship one offered, and the code one followed. Martin Luther, the Protestant reformer, also got in on the act. Much of the contemporary discussion of timelessness begins with the article “Eternity” by Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann (Stump and Kretzmann, 1981). Stump and Kretzmann take their cue from Boethius who articulated what became a standard understanding of divine timelessness: “Eternity, then, is the whole, simultaneous and perfect possession of boundless life” (Boethius, 1973). Stump and Kretzmann identify four ingredients that they claim are essential to an eternal (timeless) being. Much like the rulers of earlier Muslims states, the rulers of Hausaland blended local practices and Islam. At this time when for Muslims the spiritual journey of the month of Ramadan is beginning, I address to all of them my cordial good wishes, praying that the Almighty may grant them serene and peaceful lives.