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Time exists as a comparison of various illusions inside the brain. If a person had no
memory, his brain could not make such analyses and therefore there could be no
conception of time. If people had no memories, they would not think of a period of
past time, but experience only the single "moment" they live in.

Were God to put future events into our memories, then the fu-
ture would be the past for us. For example, a thirty-year-old person
recalls thirty years of memories and events and for this reason,
thinks he has a thirty-year past. If future events between the ages of
thirty and seventy were to be inserted into this person's memory,
then for this thirty- year-old individual, both his thirty years and his
"future" between the ages of thirty and seventy would become the

past for him. In this situation, both past and future would be present
in his memory, and each one would be vivid experiences for him.
Because God has made us perceive events in a definite series, as
if time were moving from past to future, He does not inform us of

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