ABSTRACT
God is commonly supposed to be eternal. It may well be that God is eternal by definition. It will also be that God is eternal because he is perfect and being eternal is a perfection. It may also be that God is eternal because only an eternal being can be a satisfactory object of worship. If God is eternal, he is 'outside' time. Hence he will be no 'closer' to the present than to the future or the past. He will view the whole event-series, even if is infinite in time and space, in what might be described, figuratively, as a single instant. Nothing, including God and numbers, can be eternal in the sense that a proposition that is true of it at one time must be true of it a all times. It may be possible that God is 'intrinsically eternal', that is, eternal in the sense that numbers are eternal.
