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The eternal God has created the universe. And that universe is time-bound. How can we best understand God’s relationship with our time-bound universe? For example, does God experience each moment of time in succession or are all times present to God? How we think of God and time has implications for our understanding of the nature of time, the creation of the universe, God’s knowledge of the...

changing world (assuming the process theory), there must be some sense in which God is temporal. But I reject the phrase “God is in time,” because of its negative theological connotations. Rather, I want to argue that God is the metaphysical precondition for the existence of eternity (understood here as a pure duration that is relatively timeless). Our time, created time, exists within the pure duration of God’s time, which is relatively timeless. And God’s time exists because God exists (not the
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