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    Challenges→God did not abstain from working before creating heaven and earth, because there was no time before God's creation.

    Boethius's model of divine eternity as 'nunc stans' entails that God encompasses all moments simultaneously, meaning divine agency is not temporally indexed to creation.

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    • 1.If God is truly timeless, God cannot be before, after, or during creation; simultaneity across all moments avoids privileging any temporal point.
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    • 2.Divine omniscience requires knowing all truths; timeless knowledge of future events is more coherent than temporal foreknowledge, which seems contradictory.
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    • 3.Indexing divine agency to creation's temporal sequence would make God dependent on the world's existence, undermining divine aseity and transcendence.
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    • 1.If all moments exist simultaneously for God, the distinction between God's intention and its actualization collapses, making causal agency unintelligible.
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    • 2.Nunc stans requires that past, present, and future are equally real; this contradicts our direct experience that only the present exists as actual.
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    • 3.Even if God sees all moments at once, creation still occurs sequentially; temporal indexing of agency explains how God acts *in* history, not just *over* it.
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