# Boatman

## YHWH

I don't doubt what you say about the structure of the Name. It fits well with His self description, without indicating that time is a thing in itself, or that it is fixed and that God is not free to act.

>I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

## Platonism

Augustine was a platonic theologian. He said:

>Moreover, if those who are called philosophers, and especially the Platonists, have said anything that is true and in harmony with our faith, we are not only not to shrink from it, but to claim it for our own use from those who have unlawful possession of it.

And he certainly did claim it, and that's how many such ideas entered; extra-biblical.

## Time

I don't know what an SME status is.

I think about time too. All I know about time is present. Phrases like "not bound by time" and "outside of time" seem like things of science fantasy rather than Bible exegesis.

>I think my argument probably is "all is known (to God) but not all is determined."

If the future is known exhaustively, it is determined in some sense. I don't think you can escape that. You may hold that God is not the determiner, but that doesn't change that it must be determined somehow.

>I believe God must exist inside and outside time.

I think there's only evidence, Biblical evidence, for half of that.

## Conclusion

Thanks for the dialog. I enjoy it.

Blessings to you