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=== Christianity and eternity ===
Christianity views [[God]] as being outside of time and, from the divine perspective past, present and future are actualized in the now of [[eternity]]. This trans-temporal conception of God has been proposed as a solution to the problem of divine foreknowledge (i.e. how can God know what we will do in the future without us being determined to do it) since at least [[Boethius]].<ref>Consolatio Philosophae, Bk. 4</ref> [[Thomas Aquinas]] offers the metaphor of a watchman, representing God, standing on a height looking down on a valley to a road where past, present and future, represented by the individuals and their actions strung out along its length, are all visible simultaneously to God.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cline |first=Austin |title=God Is Eternal: Timeless vs. Everlasting |url=https://www.learnreligions.com/god-is-eternal-251051 |access-date=2023-10-01 |website=Learn Religions |language=en}}</ref> Therefore, God's knowledge is not tied to any particular date.<ref>Irwin, William; White, Mark D. (2009). ''Watchmen and Philosophy: A Rorschach Test.'' John Wiley and Sons. p. 128.</ref>