A Note on Eternity

• DOI: 10.1007/s11245-016-9376-1
• Publication Date: 2016-04-11T05:24:04Z
• Authors: Ciro De Florio; Aldo Frigerio
• Keywords: Timeless; Foreknowledge; Omniscience; Eternity

The timeless solution to the problem of divine foreknowledge and human freedom has many advantages. Still, the relationship between a timeless God and temporal beings is problematic in a number of ways. In this paper, we focus on the specific problems the timeless view has to deal with when certain assumptions on the metaphysics of time are taken on board. It is shown that on static conception of time God’s omniscience is easily accounted for, but human freedom is threatened, while a dynamic conception has no problems with human freedom, but, on this view, some truths seem not to be knowable by a timeless God. We propose Fragmentalism as a metaphysics of time in which the divine timeless knowledge of temporal events and human freedom can be reconciled.