A very well done summary.:up:
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Grant is going to re-write AMR's posts in byte form. Happy Christmas, Knight.
AMR thinks time came into existence at the beginning of creation because Genesis 1:1 says "In the beginning".
AMR thinks God must be outside of time in order to be all powerful.
AMR regards interpretation with just cause as grounds for suspicion and prefers people to be honestly open as to how these texts are accepted by the majority.
AMR thinks the bible is written so that it can be understood and believes that it conveys the incomprehensible nature of God in the form of comprehansible descriptions.
AMR thinks that if God existed for an eternity in the past then not enough time would yet have passed in order that creation might have happened.
AMR thinks that Jesus said I Am because Jesus is continually in every moment of time at all times. Similarly he thinks that Jesus is hanging on the cross for the same reasons.
AMR thinks that the verses he used cannot have the preposition "before" because that would imply that there was a "before" before creation.
AMR accuses JCWR of understanding the text of Rev. 13:8 analogously!
AMR accuses JCWR of ignoring other Scriptures related to God’s timelessness. 2 Peter 3:8 and Psalm 90:4. He thinks the literal meaning of these passages is that time is of no significance to God.
AMR uses Jude 25; Titus 1:2 and 2 Timothy 1:9 to say that if there was a "before all time" and if we all agree that God is without beginning, then God must have existed prior to time.
AMR claims that Ecclesiastes 3:14-15 show that in the past the future already existed for God.
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