Swinburne

• God must be in time to be loving in order to have a relationship, God cannot be timeless
• God has to exist within time for God to be able to respond to us with love
• if there is a loving God, who has relationships with people as individuals he cannot be timeless
• God needs to be in time to have a relationship with mankind, time is essential for interactions between God and humans.
• he argues that the view of God outside of time is not biblical
• Swinburne argues that God does not have fixed purposes for all eternity. He does not intend for all time that something should happen on a particular day and then remain unchanged in that intention.
• Isiah 38:1-5, New International Version supports Swinburnes view
• God has been planning to end Hezekiah's life, but was persuaded to change his mind in response to Heziakiah's prayer.