Thoughts (God, the infinite, time)
Last night I couldn’t sleep because I kept thinking about a problem in the idea of God. If God is infinite, how can God perform an action in time? We can talk to people, pick up a glass of water because we exist within a certain frame of time. We are born and we die. God is infinite, and thus is beyond time. How could a being that exists infinitely, and thus is conscious in the present, past and future, perform a finite action? They could not be present in one moment, so they must be omnipresent. I can perform a finite action because I am finite, I exist within the present, and my perception of time is based off what time I’ve experienced.
Time gets quicker as you grow older, because you have experiences, stacking on top of each other. That’s why a minute when you were nine years old seemed much longer than a minute now. A year was a long time. Now I am surprised when a year is over.
So then, how could a being, with no perception of finite time, perform a finite action? I guess there is no answer. An atheist might say: “This problem arises because God is a construction.” A religious person might say: “This problem arises because God is beyond human comprehension.” I can not disagree with either of these answers but some part of me thinks that this may be a sign that God is not a “being” but something much more deep and complicated. God is that detached, intellectualized, infinite and at the same time is that feeling of deep love and wholeness with everything. Theology and Mysticism.
But ultimately, I have no idea.
