S1E31 – MC B4C3 – “Time and Beyond Time”

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today we're talking about time. This might seen like an abstract topic, but it helps us understand important questions, such as: 1. If God is all-knowing, how can we really have free will? 2. How can God keep creation going while He was a baby asleep in a manger? 3. How can God be attending to millions of prayers at once? So put on your thinking cap and let's ponder the mystery of time...

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0:00.0	The Eagle and Child, Episode 31.
0:03.1	Mere Christianity. Book 4, Chapter 3.
0:07.0	Time and Beyond Time.
0:15.0	Hello, and welcome to the Eagle and Child, the hallowed pub of the Inklings.
0:19.6	This is a podcast where each week, my friend Matt and I
0:22.2	share a beer and we discuss the writings of the author known to the world as Clive Staples Lewis,
0:27.0	or C.S. Lewis, or just as Jack to his friends. My name is David, and in today's episode,
0:33.3	we'll be looking at the complex subject of time, and we're going to be spending this time with my co-host Matt.
0:39.3	And friends, if we thought last week's discussion on three persons, yet one being, bringing in all
0:45.5	these dimensions and experimental knowledge, was tough.
0:49.5	Today we have the oh so easy task of discussing time and god being outside of time.
0:56.9	Have you ever read St. Augustine's Confessions? And you did a course from Augustine.
1:01.2	I did. He has a chapter on time.
1:03.1	Bleu my mind.
1:05.6	I should have re-read it for this because I actually don't remember any of it.
1:08.3	It was very difficult. It gave me a migraine.
1:11.2	I'll leave it to you, the person with a smart-sounding accent,
1:14.1	to bring all of the Augustine theology into this episode.
1:17.4	Yeah, I'm not doing that.
1:18.5	I have an alternative in mind, but we'll get to that later.
1:21.3	All right.
1:22.9	Even though this is a complex task,
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