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    It is not the case that Stump and Kretzmann's three-place formulation still requires that an eternal entity and a temporal entity share some common 'now', which presupposes temporal location for the eternal entity.

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    • 1.A common reference point need not be a shared 'now'; it could be a non-temporal ontological fact about the relation itself.
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    • 2.Opacity between eternal and temporal realms doesn't entail unintelligibility—many genuine relations hold between fundamentally different types.
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    • 3.Three-place relations can preserve God's atemporal nature while explaining knowledge without requiring God to occupy temporal locations.
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    • 1.Any intelligible relation between two entities requires they share a common framework or reference point for comparison.
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    • 2.If eternal and temporal entities truly share no common 'now', their relation becomes utterly opaque and causally inert.
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    • 3.Stump-Kretzmann's three-place relation covertly smuggles temporal location into eternity to make the relation coherent.
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