He is simple, eternal, and immutable in His Being. As such, all that He knows and chooses is known and performed immediately and intuitively, from all eternity.13 Of course, there is an operational order in the execution of God’s decrees. God eternally willed things to happen in a certain temporal sequence (one after the other), just as a doctor wills in advance the patient’s cure by prescribing, for instance, the ingestion of a pill a day for a week.
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