A Reductio Ad Absurdum of Divine Temporality: STEVEN B. COWAN

Religious Studies 32 (3):371-378 (1996)
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Theists believe that God is eternal, but they differ as to just what God's eternality means . The traditional, historic view of most Christian philosophers is that eternality means that God is timeless. He is ‘outside’ of time and not subject to any kind of temporal change. Indeed, God is the creator of time. Lets call this view divine timelessness.

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