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    It is not the case that Commitment to divine simplicity entails a commitment to divine timelessness.

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    • 1.Some medieval theologians held divine simplicity while affirming God acts differently at different times, implying temporal indexing.
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    • 2.Temporal indexing of divine acts is incompatible with strict timelessness but compatible with a weaker reading of simplicity.
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    • 3.Therefore, divine simplicity does not strictly entail timelessness, but only the absence of composition in God's nature.
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    • 1.Richard Swinburne and other open theists accept a form of divine simplicity while explicitly rejecting divine timelessness.
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    • 2.If coherent theologies can affirm simplicity without timelessness, the entailment relation between the two doctrines is not logically necessary.
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    • 1.Divine simplicity was widespread if not universal in the medieval period.
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    • 2.In general, commitment to divine simplicity entails commitment to divine timelessness.
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