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    It is not the case that Without coherent simultaneity between God's atemporal perspective and our temporal acts, the Boethian dissolution loses its explanatory foundation.

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    • 1.God's knowledge of temporal facts need not depend on simultaneity; atemporal knowledge of all moments may be primitive and underivable.
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    • 2.The demand for 'coherent simultaneity' may be a confused requirement—atemporal and temporal modes may be fundamentally incommensurable.
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    • 3.Alternative frameworks (like open theism or presentism) dissolve the problem without requiring God to access our acts through simultaneity.
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    • 1.Boethius's solution requires God to know temporal facts. Without coherent simultaneity, God's knowledge cannot relate to our acts.
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    • 2.If God's atemporal perspective cannot genuinely connect to temporal events, the claim that God knows our acts becomes metaphysically vacuous.
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    • 3.Coherent simultaneity preserves divine omniscience while avoiding causal determinism—removing it undermines the entire Boethian framework.
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