LessonsDivine Transcendence: Form, Essence, Place and TimeQuiz

ولا يجري عليه زمان
Nor does time pass over Him.

Classical accounts of time relate it to succession, renewed events or the measure of motion. Days, months and years provide temporal order: before and after, change and duration.

God’s existence is not originated, so divine existence is not treated as beginning at a moment or requiring the passage of time in order to persist.

To say God is transcendent of time does not deny divine knowledge of temporal events. The fact that what is known occurs in succession does not itself imply change or temporally acquired knowledge in the knower.

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Why time belongs to succession and change

Divine Transcendence: Form, Essence, Place and Time

ولا يجري عليه زمان
Nor does time pass over Him.

Classical accounts of time relate it to succession, renewed events or the measure of motion. Days, months and years provide temporal order: before and after, change and duration.

God’s existence is not originated, so divine existence is not treated as beginning at a moment or requiring the passage of time in order to persist.

To say God is transcendent of time does not deny divine knowledge of temporal events. The fact that what is known occurs in succession does not itself imply change or temporally acquired knowledge in the knower.