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    If God's eternal nature exists outside temporal sequence ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God did not abstain from working before creating heaven and earth, because there was no time before God's creation.

    If God's eternal nature exists outside temporal sequence altogether, then the claim that 'no time existed before creation' does not resolve the question of why God acted when God did rather than otherwise.

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    Key Terms

    Ontology/Ontological(in metaphysics)
    The philosophical study of what actually exists or is real, as opposed to what merely seems to exist or what we can know about things.
    a priori(Frege treats 'analytic' as entailing 'a priori' for arithmetic.)
    Knowable independently of empirical experience; here treated as a consequence of analyticity.
    creation(Contrasted with generation; the 'newness of the world' depends on creation having occurred.)
    The origination of the world or a being without dependence on pre-existing matter; the bringing into existence of something from nothing.
    eternal nature(describing God's existence outside of time)
    A quality or characteristic of something that exists forever and never changes or ends.
    temporal sequence

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    The ordered flow of time where events happen one after another—first this happens, then that happens.

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