Augustine on God and Time

Augustine on God and Time is about the ex nihilo theory, which states that God created the world out of nothing. Augustine believed God did not exist in time but instead that time began when God created the world. This lead to him questioning what time was and how can the

past and the future be both real and nonexistent. However, Augustine's views are things that have happened in the past can only be things that are in our minds (memory), things that are present are only true because we can see them, and things that are going to happen in the future are only our expectations of what will happen. Augustine's analysis of time is that it is a subjective phenomenon and that it exists only in the mind.

Argument was used in the readings by questioning time and the creation of the world, as well as time only existing in the mind. Augustine used logic to come up with a theory as to why God decided to create the world in the time that he did and not at some other time, which lead to him questioning what exactly is time and how did it come to exist. This caused Augustine to question Christianity because before God created us there was no time but what led him to this theory of no time existed before we were created, just because there was no history before our existence.

The arguments strength is that it is a good theory as to how time did become to exist if not for us but just because there is no coexistence before us does not mean that time was not in existence. One question you have to ask is if time did not exist how was God able to become and exist. The weakness of this theory is that the past exists not in our minds but in fact in written documentation of the history of the world that God created. We remember things that happened to us in the past whether it be days, months, or years ago so not only are these memories but they are also facts because they happened to us. If the future is our expectations then we have the choice to change