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    In an eternal life, nothing passes, because passage would... — Carmelics
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    Supports→While times pass in time, they do not pass relative to eternity.

    In an eternal life, nothing passes, because passage would introduce earlier and later parts, making the life temporal rather than eternal.

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    All times, precisely in their presentness, are ET-simultaneous with an eternal l...Each time t, when present, is ET-simultaneous with the life of an eternal being.Each time, precisely in its presentness, remains ET-simultaneous with God's life...While times pass in time, they do not pass relative to eternity.

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    An eternal life has no earlier and later parts; if it did, it would be...89%Therefore nothing passes in God's eternal life.78%If something ceased to be ET-simultaneous with God's life, that would ...78%In God's eternal life, each time in its presentness remains and nothin...78%

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    Of course, one wants to know how to make sense of the idea that passage is real only in time. Stump and Kretzmann (1981) gave a take on this while retracting Kretzmann's original commitment to (1)–(4). Suppose presentism. On the Stump-Kretzmann picture, each time t, when present, is “ET-simultaneous” with the life of an eternal being. So that life is ET-simultaneous with t. So all times, precisely in their presentness, are just ET-simultaneous with an eternal life. But in an eternal life, nothing passes. If it did, that life would have earlier and later parts: it would be temporal, not ete...

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