I hope everyone is enjoying this series of podcast as much as we are Bill.

We're exploring the background of five of your books and up next the infinitely popular

time and eternity.

Tell us about the book and your decision to write it.

This is a popularization of my work on divine eternity

and God's relationship to time.

The question here is, how does God relate to time?

Is God timeless as usually assume, that is to say does he completely transcend time, or is God

everlasting throughout time? God omnipemorial.

And I argue that the Bible doesn't decide this philosophical question

and therefore it falls squarely in the lap of the philosophical not

biblical theologian and so in this book I explore arguments for and against divine timelessness and try to craft a theory of divine

eternity.

I worked for 11 years straight on this project as my major research interest. It's been said that the

question of time is the most difficult philosophical question, second only to the question of God.

And so when you try to put God and time together, you've got a subject that could exhaust a lifetime of study and I think the time

and eternity Kevin may very well be my best book. It reflects an enormous wealth of scholarship and yet

it presents it in a very popular, easy to understand way, complete with pictures and diagrams to assist the

reader.

The book is beautifully put together by Crossway. Publishers, I think they did a first

great job with the book. So this is a book that I am very proud of. You know Bill when we read your work so much of it tends to

funnel into the Kalam or I or has come out of your study of the Kalam argument. Does this book connect some of the dots that

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