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Ep. 77 Classical Theism and Analytic Theology

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Is the Classical Theist Just Being Incoherent?

classical theists talk about god's eternal duration in an eternal now or present. Butduration is a temporal concept, and so now or present does not seem like a good way of talking about god's timeless existence. On endurantism, objects have numerical identity as they persist from moment to moment. And since the present is the only moment of time that exists, objects exist as a whole at the present. They don't have parts lying about at other times, because there are no other moments of time that exist.

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