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God has a timeless mode of existence. — Carmelics

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God has a timeless mode of existence.

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1.The most perfect being, God, has the most perfect mode of existence.
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2.Temporal existence is a less perfect mode of existence than timeless existence.
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1.A being that cannot act, respond, or relate to temporal creatures within time lacks causal efficacy in the temporal world.
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2.A timeless God cannot coherently perform dated actions like creation, revelation, or answered prayer without becoming temporal.
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3.Therefore, timeless existence is incompatible with the relational and providential attributes essential to the God of classical theism.
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1.Perfection in a personal being requires the capacity for knowledge of tensed facts, such as what is happening now.
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2.A timeless being cannot possess genuine knowledge of tensed facts, since such knowledge requires a temporal standpoint (Castañeda, Prior).
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3.Therefore, timeless existence entails a cognitive limitation incompatible with divine omniscience, undermining premise P2 of the supporting argument.
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There are a number of considerations speaking in favor of divine timelessness that arise out of perfect being theology. Perfect being theology is the approach to theology that involves figuring out what God is like on the basis of God’s being the most perfect (or greatest possible) being. A general argument goes as follows. The most perfect being, God, has the most perfect mode of existence. But temporal existence is a less perfect mode of existence than timeless existence. Therefore, God has a timeless mode of existence.

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Perspectives: 3 (1 for, 2 against)
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