Dear Dr. Craig, why do you think a B-theory, tenseless theory of time is incompatible

with the incarnation?

I know you think events like Christ, crucifixion are not really done or overwith on a B-theory

understanding of time.

And my thinking is, why must God be bound to the same way we perceive time, and so is

to relate to the world in that same way?

Can God relate to the world via some X theory of time, or B-theory tenseless time, perhaps,

while we as finite beings still perceive the world under an A-theory, or a tensed view

of time?

Bill, we've talked a lot about A and B-theory of time.

Yes.

Those who aren't familiar with the terminology, let's just make it clear.

According to the A-theory of time, temporal becoming is real, things really come into

being, and pass away.

The past and the future do not exist, but are merely potentialities.

Whereas on the B-theory, past, present, and future are all equally real, and temporal

becoming is just in the illusion of human consciousness.

And what I claim is that the tenseless theory of time is incompatible, not with Christ's

incarnation, but really with his crucifixion and resurrection, because on the B-theory

of time, Christ's crucifixion is still just as real as it ever was.

Christ is there on the cross in AD-33, and his resurrection is just the resurrection of

a later stage of the four-dimensional space-time entity that is Christ.

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