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    It is not the case that The supreme essence cannot exist as a whole in individual times severally and distinctly.

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    • 1.Temporal omnipresence is compatible with unity: God can be wholly present at each moment without being divided, as Aquinas argues in Summa Theologiae I.10.2.
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    • 2.A thing present in its entirety at multiple locations or times need not thereby be fragmented, as universals are wholly instantiated in many particulars without loss of unity.
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    • 1.The argument illicitly assumes that existing 'in' time entails being 'composed of' temporal parts, a conflation Boethius himself does not establish.
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    • 2.An eternal being could relate to each temporal moment indexically and wholly, as open theists like William Hasker argue, without its essence being temporally extended or divided.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.If the supreme essence exists as a whole in individual times severally and distinctly, then its time-span is not simultaneously a whole but is stretched out in parts through the parts of time.
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    • 2.The time-span of the supreme essence is its eternity, and its eternity is precisely itself.
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    • 3.Therefore, the supreme essence would be cut up into parts along the divisions of time.
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