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    Supports→The view that God has both a timeless phase and a temporal phase is logically incoherent.

    Transition between any two modes of existence—timeless to temporal—requires a cause or mechanism, but for God no external cause exists and no internal cause is possible without prior temporality.

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    Cause or mechanism(what's needed to explain a transition between different modes of existence)
    Something that makes something else happen or explains how a change occurs.
    External cause(what some argue each contingent thing needs)
    Something outside of an object that makes it exist or happen; for example, a match is an external cause of a flame.
    Internal cause(contrasted with external cause)
    Something within an entity itself that causes it to change or act; a reason that comes from within.
    Prior temporality(why an internal cause would be impossible for God without time already existing)
    Existing in time before something else; having a sequence of moments that comes first.
    Temporal(as describing a framework that includes time)

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    Relating to time or how things change over time.
    Timeless(as used in philosophy of religion and metaphysics)
    Existing outside of time; not subject to change or the passage of past, present, and future.
    mode of existence(Clarke's post-1719 terminology, per Thomas 2018)
    A property that can be ascribed both to God and to God's attributes, unlike an attribute, which cannot be ascribed to another attribute.

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