Can Sinners Really Change? Understanding Personal Salvation in the Block Universe
This article brings time and theology together constructively in response to a pressing problem for the doctrine of personal salvation. The problem arises within the physics and metaphysics of time, as these support a so-called temporal B-theory in which time does not pass and reality is comprised o...
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