Eternal God
A Study of God without Time
Helm, Paul Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion, King's College, London
Print publication date: 1997 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823725-9







doi:10.1093/0198237251.003.0003

Paul Helm
Abstract: This Chapter is concerned with omniscience and the problem raised for divine timeless eternity by temporal indexicals such as ’now’ and ’yesterday’. Can an eternal God know what is happening now? Does it matter if he cannot? It is claimed that some arguments used to establish that God is in time prove too much, for they prove that God is also in space.

Keywords: eternity, God, indexicals, omniscience, space, time,

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