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To carry on the linkage between (i)the doctrine of compatibilism, (ii)the problem that Terrence Tiessen sees in the “timeless[-ness]” of traditional Calvinistic theology, and (iii)my claim that solving this “timeless[-ness]” problem is crucial to a “Hermeneutical Prolegomena” aimed at discovering a “theology of the state”:

Could you explain what you think is the "problem" of God's timelessness? Speaking for myself, I'm at a loss what it has to do with anything you're talking about here. God's timelessness is His existence outside the boundaries of time, hence He is without either beginning or end, He is unchanging and no "age" can be assigned to Him.

Tiessen's problem was how such a God can be "relational," on the (apparent) presumption that in a relationship between two persons, both parties must grow in knowledge of each other; however, God has no need to grow in knowledge of anything, and certainly the Persons of the Godhead have never had to "grow closer" to each other--and yet their relationships are the most perfect in existence.

But how does this tie in to a "hermeneutical prolegomena" or a "theology of the state"?

Kyle

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified.