First, the primordial or eternal nature of God as the principal of abstraction or originality and the source of the initial aim, and second, the consequent or temporal nature of God in which God, as part of reality, interacts with the rest of reality. (religion-online.org)
12 In other words, an adequate trinitarian theology can not develop a notion of God's actions in history that is incompatible with its claims about God's own eternal nature. (religion-online.org)
As Vilenkin saw it, inflation's eternal nature stemmed from two competing properties of the cosmic fuel, the gravity - repulsive material that caused the universe to rapidly expand. (discovermagazine.com)