Eternity

Brian Leftow

doi:10.1002/9781444320152.ch32

Eternity

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Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	A Companion to Philosophy of Religion
Subtitle of host publication	Second Edition
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	278-284
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9781405163576
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444320152.ch32
State	Published - Feb 8 2010
Externally published	Yes

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"God becoming temporal"-suggesting that God's life has first a timeless and then a temporal part
A timeless God does not remember, forget, regret, feel relief, or cease to do anything
Creation of time-theists thinking that god is the source of whatever is not God, and time being not God
Eternity
If timeless, God's life lasts forever-in the sense that at every time, or timelessly
Problems for timelessness-critics of (GT), features of Western theist concept of God requiring that God exists in time
Theists wanting to see God as the creator-not just of temporal things but of time itself
Western theists, agreeing that God is eternal-and disagreeing over what "God is eternal"

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