ABSTRACT
The fact that the result of God's action occurs in the temporal universe does not necessarily require the action itself to be temporal. God, the cause of the temporal effect, can himself be timeless. Saint Theresa of Avila is said to have written the following lines: Christ has no body now on earth but yours, No hands but yours, no feet but yours, Yours are the only eyes through which He is to look with compassion on the world, Yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good, And yours the hands with which He is to bless us now. Saint Theresa does not actually want to go as far as the revisionists want to go. She is not suggesting that God cannot or does not act. Timeless action cannot be shown to be impossible, even though advocates of this view would accept that we cannot know what it would mean for timeless God to act.
