" On the doctrine of the eternality of God, Aquinas concludes that God is in everything, and that he is in everything because existence is present in all things. From this point-of-view, Aquinas' account of the doctrine of divine omnipresence reveals that he does not, in fact, subscribe to the doctrine that God is timeless.
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