Incarnation in Time

[Guest JeffCR07]

Again, I believe you are equivocating with your use of the phrase "outside of time." As Anselm teaches us, God really is [i]in[/i] time, but [i]not in the same way as things that are circumscribed by time[/i]. Because God circumscribes time itself, his presence "within" time is not the same as your presence or my presence in time.

This quote from chapter 22 will help you get this clear:

[quote]since an inescapable necessity demands that the Supreme Being be present as a whole in every place and at every time, and since no law of place or of time prohibits the Supreme Being from being present as a whole in every place at once or from being present as a whole at every time at once, the Supreme Being must be present as a whole in each and every place at once and present as a whole at each and every time at once. Its being present at one place or time does not prevent it from being simultaneously and similarly present at another place or time. Nor is it the case that because it was or is or will be, something of its eternity (a) has vanished from the temporal present along with the past, which no longer exists, or (b) fades with the present, which scarcely exists, or © is going to come with the future, which does not yet exist. For the law of place and the law of time do not in any way compel to exist or not to exist in any place or at any time (and do not in any way prevent from existing or not existing in any place or at any time) that which does not in any way confine its own existence within place and time.[/quote]