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The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers | Prof. Eleonore Stump

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The A, B, and C Series of Eternity

There's what philosophers call the A series, past, present and future. The B series is earlier than simultaneous with later than. Because an eternal God can't be characterized by succession, nothing in God's life can be ordered in either of those series. And everything in eternity is simultaneous with all of time. Everything in eternity is now, but with the now of eternity, not the now of time.

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