Timmay
Puritan Board Freshman
NOTE: Movie (Arrival) spoilers below!!!
Just rambling here based upon what I saw in the movie. Hoping for discussion.
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In the movie the main character, Louise Banks, comes to experience time non-linearly. She doesn't move back and forward through time but can view it when she wills, merely because an alien language allowed her to think in that way. It is shown that one of the effects of an event has its cause in the future, but for Louise Banks there is neither past nor future. When the information is gained does not matter because there is no when. This seems to put the nature of casual events out of wack.
Now it seems like God could perceive time in the same way but he orders events in a linear fashion.
But nonlinear time doesn't seem to work because do you really have a cause and effect anymore if it's not linear? Or does cause and effect have to be linear? I am reminded of something C.S. Lewis said. A friend arrives home safely after a plane ride. Hours later and miles away, you pray for the friend to arrive home safely. Let's say God answered your prayer and used it as the means to get your friend home safely, even though your prayer occurred AFTER your friend had already arrived. Because God is outside of time can He not make causes and effects non-linear as it would appear to us?
And then if we could experience time in a non-linear way or we were outside of time, it almost implies that our journey would be fixed because there is no past, present, or future, there just is.
Now it seems like God could perceive time in the same way but he orders events in a linear fashion.
But nonlinear time doesn't seem to work because do you really have a cause and effect anymore if it's not linear? Or does cause and effect have to be linear? I am reminded of something C.S. Lewis said. A friend arrives home safely after a plane ride. Hours later and miles away, you pray for the friend to arrive home safely. Let's say God answered your prayer and used it as the means to get your friend home safely, even though your prayer occurred AFTER your friend had already arrived. Because God is outside of time can He not make causes and effects non-linear as it would appear to us?
And then if we could experience time in a non-linear way or we were outside of time, it almost implies that our journey would be fixed because there is no past, present, or future, there just is.
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