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    God's temporal experience, while involving succession, is... — Carmelics
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    God's temporal experience, while involving succession, is very much unlike ordinary temporal experience.

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    • God is omniscient, so God forgets no part of the past and already knows all about the future.
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    • 1.Omniscience of future events requires that God's knowledge updates or is indexed to temporal positions, implying genuinely sequential cognitive states.
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    • 2.If God's knowledge of 'it is now raining' differs from 'it was raining yesterday,' God undergoes real epistemic change structurally identical to ordinary temporal experience.
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    • 1.Aquinas and Boethius ground divine atemporality in simplicity doctrine, but open theists like Swinburne argue a God who acts in history must experience a genuine 'before' and 'after.'
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    • 2.If divine temporal experience were categorically unlike ordinary succession, God could not be a personal agent responding to prayers or historical events in any coherent sense.
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    According to Leftow, there can be no change in (timeless) eternity, and in eternity, all events happen (A-) simultaneously. However, in some places eternity is instead described as involving succession, namely as consisting of a number of different B-series corresponding to different temporal reference frames (Leftow 1991: 239). Prima facie, these are different, incompatible ideas. B-theorists, who hold that time, fundamentally, consists of events standing in B-relations of precedence and simultaneity, do not also hold that all of time collapses to a single time.

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