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    God exists changelessly and timelessly, but by creating, ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→God is timeless without creation and temporal with creation.

    God exists changelessly and timelessly, but by creating, God undergoes an extrinsic change which draws Him into time.

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    William Lane Craig’s view is that God is timeless without creation, and temporal with creation (Craig 2000). God exists timelessly “without” creation rather than before creation, because there isn’t literally a before. And so it can’t literally be the case that God becomes temporal, since becoming anything involves being first one thing and then the other. Nonetheless, God is “timeless without creation and temporal subsequent to creation ”, God “enters time at the moment of creation” (Craig 2000: 33). God exists changelessly and timelessly, but by creating, God undergoes an extrinsic change “w...

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