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Okay, so you believe in causation from outside of time into it, without the cause having to precede its effect. I don't.

You said the one comes before the other. Okay. What is the difference?

You can't have an act of creating time preceding that which it creates though. So you're back to square one, needing to explain how you...

The gunfire precedes anything it causes. The runners can't be caused to start running until after the gun has fired and the sound has...

My point doesn't even concern God. It's about the contradiction involved in saying two timelines are unrelated while also saying they...

It directly addresses that. I'm saying you have related them by placing them in relations of 'before' and 'after'. What do you mean by...

Sure, but we've been discussing whether or not causes must precede their effects in time, with you saying God (the cause) causes time...

Sorry, that's still contradictory. If one bit of time occurs before another bit of time, then that makes both part of the same timeline...

Torin's post answers exactly what you asked, which was a question about what atheists think. It was not a question about what we could...

A gun firer is temporally related to what comes after. He is not outside of time altogether, and is merely in more time that precedes...

You didn't answer the question. Remember: "...in order to actually have genuinely interesting discussion.... questions must be...

How so? How are you defining a time-frame? The gun firer isn't outside of time, and is temporally related to everything that comes...

Yes it is. Yes it is. That's not what you asked. No more than you. I think everyone is entitled to fair and reasonable treatment...

If you die and are faced with Allah or Vishnu about to punish you eternally for sincerely believing in the wrong God, do you think that...

A question that has now been answered. My answer would be exactly the same as Torin's. And yet that is how your question is phrased. It...