Abstract
In "Eternity and the Personal God," Karl Busen addresses the problem of an alleged incompatibility between God's eternity and his personhood: it is sometimes claimed that God can be either an eternal being or a person, but not both at the same time.1 Nelson Pike, for example, claims that mental activities such as thinking, remembering, imagining, etc. are inherently temporal, thus they cannot be executed in eternity, if eternity is understood as timelessness rather than time endlessness. To grapple with this problem, Busen calls on the distinction, introduced by David Park, between Time 1 and Time 2. Time 1 is modeless, like the time parameter used in equations; Time 2 is characteristic of human consciousness, distinguishing among the three modes of time: past, present, and future.