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    If logical priority constitutes a meaningful 'before,' th... — 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 logical priority constitutes a meaningful 'before,' then God's non-action prior to creation remains a coherent object of inquiry regardless of the absence of physical time.

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    • 1.Logical priority is a real relation independent of temporal sequence, as demonstrated by mathematical truths ordering themselves without physical time.
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    • 2.Coherence requires only that we can formulate consistent propositions about God's state pre-creation, not that we perceive or experience that state.
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    • 3.Inquiries into abstract logical structures (like necessary beings) remain meaningful even when they involve no temporal duration or physical causation.
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    • 1.Logical priority describes relations between propositions, not events or states; applying it to God's pre-creation non-action conflates two distinct domains.
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    • 2.Inquiring coherently about God's state presupposes we can reference that state as distinct from creation, yet without time or properties, no distinction obtains.
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    • 3.If God timelessly creates (not temporally preceded by non-action), then 'prior non-action' describes nothing real, making the inquiry semantically empty.
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