If no object of an immutable God’s experience can change...

If no object of an immutable God’s experience can change, God must have a changeless experience of the world.”[^79] “The notion that deity is ‘Absolute’ has meant that God is not really related to the world.”[^80] As Hasker points out, “temporal events exist in time as the medium of temporal succession, so it would seem that a being which experiences them directly must itself exist in time and experience succession - but of course, this is just what a timeless being cannot do.”[^81] Hasker outlines the problem as such: 1- If God is directly aware of a thing, that thing is metaphysically present to God.

(Premise) 2- If God knows temporal beings, God knows all their temporal stages. (Premise) 3- If God is directly aware of temporal beings, all of their temporal stages are metaphysically present to God. (From 1-2) 4- If the temporal stages of a temporal being are metaphysically present in God, they are present either sequentially or simultaneously. (Premise) 5- If God is timeless, nothing is present to God sequentially.

(Premise) 6- If God is timeless and is directly aware of temporal beings, all their temporal stages are simultaneously, metaphysically present to God. (From 3-5) 7- If the temporal stages of a temporal being are simultaneously, metaphysically present to God, those stages exist simultaneously. (Premise) 8- The temporal stages of a temporal…