“The main problem with the everlasting model is not logical consistency but theological inadequacy. Given our notion of God as an infinite, personal Creator, we would expect God to transcend time in some way. Merely knowing the future and living forever is not enough to satisfy this demand. Recent developments in physics would join with St. Augustine and many traditional philosophers to insist that time is a created category that came into existence with the physical universe. Space-time as we know it has a beginning—but God does not. Space-time is warped by the presence of matter—but God is not. Thus God must be beyond time as we know it, in some sense. David Braine may overstate the case when he writes, “If we understand eternity as mere everlastingness, then it seems that we are in danger of reducing him who is worshiped to the level of the creature,” but he is giving voice to a common and powerful objection to a merely everlasting eternity for God. Proponents of an everlasting view of eternity have difficulty overcoming this objection, in my view.”