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    Challenges→Considering the nature of eternity will make clear both the nature of God and his manner of knowing.

    If presentism or the A-theory of time is correct, then 'simultaneous possession of all moments' is incoherent, undermining the definition's capacity to illuminate divine knowledge.

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    Key Terms

    A-theory of time(philosophy of time)
    A view according to which there is a fundamental ontological difference between the future and the present/past, such that the present and past are real or actual while the future is not.
    B-theory of time(Metaphysics of time)
    A theory of time under which propositions bear their truth-values eternally rather than relative to a time index
    Divine knowledge(as the main topic being discussed)
    The philosophical question of how God knows things—particularly whether God knows the future, knows everything at once, or knows things the way humans do.
    Incoherent(describing whether moral responsibility can exist)
    Logically impossible or contradictory; something that cannot make sense or cannot exist at the same time as something else.
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    (in discussions of how God relates to time)
    A concept suggesting that God experiences all of time at once—past, present, and future—rather than moving through time like humans do.
    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.
    presentism(Philosophy of time)
    The view that, necessarily, it is always true that only present objects exist; no objects exist in time without being present

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