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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Arguments for the A-Theory of Time

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg argues for the A-theory of time, then he answers questions about whether God did something in the absence of time, how God can know what will happen in an A-theory of time, Greg’s take on church membership, and pastors using other people’s sermons.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:02.0

La, La, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

0:29.0

All right, friends, Greg Cogel here.

0:30.8

I'm Stan to Reason, and this is an open mic day, although, or at least our, but I'm live here, and that means you can call in.

0:39.3

If you like, I just don't have any callers in a queue.

0:41.7

Our numbers 855-243-9975, 855-243-9975.

0:48.9

And I was going to tell you about the states we still do not have an outpost in.

0:59.9

There's about 10 of them.

1:01.5

And I don't have my list here.

1:02.8

So I'll have to save that for later, maybe at the next break.

1:07.0

But a couple of, I don't know, a week or so ago, I answered a question by a fellow named Tom about the relationship in God and time.

1:16.6

There's a second question he's going to ask me, but sometimes I get a feeling, especially if I feel pressed for time, like I am occasionally, that I'm moving too quickly, and therefore I'm just blasting by a whole

1:34.0

bunch of you and leaving you in the dust to become roadkill because you're not really following

1:39.5

some of these concepts because they are somewhat esoteric.

1:43.7

They're kind of high flutin and, you know, it takes

1:46.6

you well to kind of chew on these things. There is an impulse for Christians to say, well,

1:54.0

you know, God is infinite and God is outside of the natural realm and God is outside of time. Now, I actually don't think that God is outside of the natural realm, and God is outside of time.

2:02.4

Now, I actually don't think that God is outside of time.

2:05.9

And I actually took a whole course on it on the graduate level,

2:11.6

and William Lang Craig was the one who taught the course.

2:15.0

And it was really fascinating.

2:17.3

In fact, there is a whole talk that he gave around that time called God, time, and

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