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Is Thomas Aquinas’s argument for god on the basis of infinite regress not being possible a contradiction?

Hello!

Essentially the title.

Would being timeless not also be impossible by the same logic, as it does not have a beginning? Is the argument of infinite regress, that everything must have a beginning?

Thanks !
gpt
Two things. 

Aquinas thinks God is not just in time and infinitely extended in time, but rather that God is timeless. He's outside of time.

Also, God's timelessness wouldn't be an infinite regress in any case. Aquinas explicitly contends that the universe could have been infinitely old. He rather has a problem with infinite causal regression.