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As proven by Albert Einstein, time along with space is relative.
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Not proven, just demonstrated. Special and General Relativity are still theories.
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The simple answer to this question is that God is outside the Universe.
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No, the simple answer is that there is nothing outside the universe (or multiverse). The idea of God is a stipulation.
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Ergo, God knows what decision you have made before you make it because he knows the past, present, and future, and sees all at once.
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Free will still does not exist. If past, present, and future exist at the same time, then every action taken by a being is necessary and not contigent.
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"Existence" may have been originally used to describe material reality but that is only because pre-plato no one thought of transcendent idealistic reality (with the exception of Anaxagoras' Nous but I would hardly call it a worked out non-material entity). You seem to be saying that existence and cosmos are the same.
It seems to me the typical use of the word existence means that the objects has being.
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The only reason people speak of the cosmos as though it exists is because we infer from experience that it exists. I don't see why theoretical realities beyond the cosmos deserve special consideration. If there is a world beyond the world, then I will only have reason to speak of it as real when I am there or when it obviously effects this world I am in right now.
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It seems to me the typical use of the word existence means that the objects has being.
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That is why I shifted to 'like existence', although a better expression of my feeling would be to say it a mis-application with reference to what I consider the original intent and proper function of language.