If God is eternal it is logically necessary that the creation is eternal:
1. God is eternal
2. God's thoughts are eternal
a) Nothing can be added to or taken away from God or his perfection is impugned
b) All the thoughts God has he always had
3. God's thoughts are perfect
a) God's thoughts are synthetic (rather than analytic)
i) God grasps every thing immediately in all of its relationship to all other things
ii) God does not learn, develop ideas, research, investigate, experiment
b) God's thoughts are not wasted, or wishful, or empty
4. Since 1), 2), and 3), what God thinks, is
5. God thought the creation
6. The creation was not brought into being at any point in time. Time and space are a feature of the creation and do not exist apart from it
7. Therefore the creation is eternal
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It is possible to have a temporally-limited thought for eternity. As in: from this point to this point within my eternal existence, the universe will exist. Unless you remove the concept of the passage of time from eternity - but by doing that you strip the possibility of reasoned debate from the matter as well.
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