Divine beliefs formed through timeless eternal cognition, as Boethius and Aquinas argue, track contingent truths with necessity because eternity encompasses all temporal possibilities simultaneously.
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In this philosophical context, not just endless time, but a state of existing completely outside of time—all moments happening at once from God's perspective.
Temporal possibilities(what eternity is said to encompass simultaneously)
All the different ways things could happen or turn out within time—the open future from a human perspective.
contingent truths(Contrasted with the modal collapse implied by sσ ⊃• □•sσ)
Truths that are not necessarily determined; truths that could have been otherwise
necessity(Auriol's modal theory of future contingents)
The property of necessarily being the way something is; equivalent to immutability in Auriol's modal theory