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    It is not the case that Newton and Samuel Clarke held that God's eternity is an infinite temporal duration, not atemporal existence, grounding divine precedence in endless time.

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    • 1.Infinite temporal duration faces the same logical problems as finite time: change requires something outside time to measure it against.
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    • 2.If God experiences moments sequentially through infinite time, God cannot know future free human choices, undermining omniscience.
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    • 3.Temporal infinity remains vulnerable to the paradoxes of infinite series; atemporality avoids these mathematical and logical complications entirely.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.God's experience of time as infinite duration better explains how God can causally act in temporal creation without violating physical causation laws.
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    • 2.An atemporal God cannot genuinely respond to prayers or changing circumstances; temporal infinity preserves divine responsiveness.
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    • 3.Biblical narratives describe God as acting sequentially (creating, then resting); this language most naturally reflects temporal rather than atemporal existence.
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