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    Supports→God is timeless with respect to 'Measured Time' (the specifically human time of seconds, days, and centuries).

    'Measured Time' is the specifically human time of our history and our universe: the time of seconds, days, and centuries.

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    “Measured Time” is “the specifically human time of our history and our universe: the time of seconds, days, and centuries; the time of our space-time” (Padgett 1992: 130). In that sense of “time”, God is timeless. However, God is not timeless in the strict sense in which “time” refers to any kind of temporality, because God is in his own time. Does that mean God is only in his time and not in ours? No, he is in our time too (p. 131—at least saying this is “philosophically acceptable” (p. 126)), as we are in his. It’s just that he transcends our time. What does it mean to transcend our time? It...

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