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    Challenges→While times pass in time, they do not pass relative to eternity.

    If every moment of time is fully present to an eternal God, then God's knowledge of 'what is present' cannot discriminate between times that are past, present, or future for temporal beings.

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    Key Terms

    Discriminate (in philosophy)(describing how internal coherence fails to tell us which inductive schemes are valid)
    To distinguish or tell the difference between two things based on some standard or criterion.
    Eternal(Maimonides' argument linking eternity to necessity)
    Existing without a beginning in time; that which has always existed and, per the operative premise, must exist necessarily
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    omniscience / God's knowledge(the philosophical problem of how an eternal God can know temporal facts)
    The idea that God knows everything—all facts, all events, all moments—completely and perfectly.

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    temporal beings(contrasted with eternal beings in discussions of time and existence)
    Creatures like humans who experience time as a sequence—you remember the past, live in the present moment, and anticipate the future.
    the problem of divine foreknowledge(this statement is exploring one version of this ancient philosophical debate)
    A major puzzle in philosophy: if God knows the future perfectly, do humans have free choice, or is everything already decided?

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