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    It is not the case that God is immaterial and eternal (has no material or temporal parts).

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Process theology (Whitehead, Hartshorne) holds that God is genuinely temporal, experiencing the world sequentially as it becomes.
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    • 2.A God who lacks temporal parts cannot be genuinely responsive to creaturely events, undermining classical theism's relational claims.
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    • 3.If divine responsiveness is incoherent on the immutability model, the doctrine of impassibility entails a God less perfect than a responsive one.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The Incarnation, central to Christian orthodoxy, commits Chalcedonian theology to Christ having material and temporal parts as fully human.
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    • 2.If the Son is homoousios with the Father yet genuinely material and temporal in the Incarnation, divine immateriality cannot be an essential divine attribute.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.God is simple.
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    • 2.A simple being cannot have parts, including material or temporal parts.
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