I'm sending this also to Debate, so I should explain that it was posted on Errancy.
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> Now, since God exists outside of time, his knowledge of
> what you picked AFTER you picked it extends backwards to before you picked
it.
The notion that "God exists outside of time" is one that theists use to prove why an eternal God could have reached a particular point at which "time" he created the universe but that the universe itself could not be eternal. If it were, theists argue, no specific time could ever be arrived at, because no matter how far back in time one goes there would always have been time before it. This particular moment, then, could not have been arrived at, and neither could the moment when God began creating the universe. An eternal deity who exists "outside of time," however, could have created the universe at a particular, measurable point in time.
The problem that I see in this argument is that if God exists "outside of time," then he could not have created the universe. In fact, he couldn't have done anything; he couldn't even have had the thought, "I think I will create the universe." My rationale for this is that doing anything, even having a thought, requires a beginning point and an ending. If I think to myself, "Today is Thursday," I have to utilize time in order to have that thought. Admittedly, the time span is short, but thought did require a beginning and an end. If I existed "outside of time," I simply couldn't have a thought like this. So I wish whoever made this statement would respond and tell us how it would be possible for God to exist "outside of time." I would also ask him to explain to us if it is impossible for anything to exist "outside of time." If so, how?
Farrell Till