ABSTRACT
This chapter examines four different views of what it means to talk about God. Three of them are realist views, whilst the final one is an anti-realist approach. If God were indeed timeless, spaceless, simple, immutable and omniscient, God was very different indeed from any creature found in the universe. Language about timeless God must be either analogical or metaphorical. Significantly, timeless God is not an individual, so to talk of such a God as He or she is grossly misleading, as gender could only apply to an individual. In fact, people do not have any alternative most of the time but this is because of the inadequacies of the language. People cannot describe timeless and spaceless God in the same way as they describe temporal and spatial creatures. People cannot know what it is for timeless and spaceless God to exist; still less can they know what it is for that God to create, love or suffer.
