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    Considering the nature of eternity will make clear both t... — Carmelics
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    Considering the nature of eternity will make clear both the nature of God and his manner of knowing.

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    • 1.God is eternal.
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    • 2.Eternity is the complete, simultaneous and perfect possession of everlasting life.
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    • 1.Divine ineffability, as defended by Maimonides and Pseudo-Dionysius, entails that God's nature cannot be positively disclosed through any creaturely concept.
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    • 2.Eternity, as a concept derived from creaturely temporal experience, is a creaturely concept applied analogically at best.
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    • 3.Therefore, analyzing 'eternity' cannot make God's nature or knowledge clear, but only gestures toward what God is not.
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    • 1.Boethius's definition of eternity as 'simultaneous whole possession' presupposes a tenseless, static ontology of time that is philosophically contested.
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    • 2.If presentism or the A-theory of time is correct, then 'simultaneous possession of all moments' is incoherent, undermining the definition's capacity to illuminate divine knowledge.
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    It is the common judgement, then, of all creatures that live by reason that God is eternal. So let us consider the nature of eternity, for this will make clear to us both the nature of God and his manner of knowing. Eternity, then, is the complete, simultaneous and perfect possession of everlasting life; this will be clear from a comparison with creatures that exist in time.
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    Validity: The passage explicitly states that God is eternal and defines eternity, and argues that considering eternity's nature will illuminate God's nature and his manner of knowing, making the extracted argument faithfully present in the source.

    Confidence: The author explicitly links understanding eternity to understanding God's nature and knowledge.

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