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