The Timelessness of God
Your idea comes from Greek pagan thought not the
bible. (e.g. God created time, God is outside of time, fate, etc.)
See:
Is God Outside of Time? Not according to the Bible.
By Bob Enyart
Related:
Is the
Future Settled or Open? Dr. Lamerson vs. Enyart
Also see:
Calvinism: You Must Already be Saved to Get Saved?
For being on ignore, you sure read a lot of my
posts (Eph
4:14).
Where do you think he exists?
Time is real (Re 8:1). Choices are real (Josh 24:15).
See:
Predestination and Will: How are predestination and election connected with
foreknowledge?
Does God Elect Everyone?
You thought time had God in a straight jacket?
Time does not work like Back to the Future or Star Trek (quantum realities).
We cannot take ourselves into the future...
And God cannot see a future that doesn't exist. He's got a plan. He's calling out a people for his namesake. If you'd like to be one of them, repent. If God can see our entire future like a dvd on a screen, then why now fast forward to the end? Why create those people he knows will go to hell? Why not create only the ones who will choose heaven?
...Nor can we have specific knowledge of things which others will do in the future.
And had Abraham not passed his test of faith, God
would have chosen another man. People who believe as you do also tend to say
that God cannot change (Mal
3:6[1],
Jn 1:14), change
his mind (Jon
3:10) or learn anything new (Ge
22:12,
Lk 2:52). Why
can't God change his mind? You can change your mind. Why can't God change his
mind? Because you don't trust him?
God can be more than us; but, he cannot be less.
If you don't believe that God can change his mind,
then why pray?
[1] God is committed to
righteousness.
See:
Intercession
As mere creatures we are restricted from traveling into the future so in that sense we are constrained by time.
Again, if God knows our entire life in advance why
not cause it to occur in minutes rather than years like
The Inner Light Star Trek: The Next Generation
episode?
Did God know that Susan Smith would become a monster
who drowned her two kids and let David Smith marry her anyway? How cruel.
The disciples wanted to know if Elijah would come
before the return of the Messiah (Mt
17:10). Jesus said that he would come (v 17:11)
and he had come (v 17:12). John the Baptist would have been the Elijah had the
Jews repented.
Love is more important that prophecy. Had Pharaoh
repented, that would have been a good thing. Had Judas repented, that would have
been a good thing.
How could the Lord have chosen some to be saved before the foundation of the world unless He had a foreknowledge of exactly who would believe?
You would have known had you read my paper.
Related:
Ro 8:28 McGee
Why did you not address the verses which I quoted instead of trying to change the subject?
"Don't get stuck on stupid."
~ General Honore Eph 4:14
It makes more sense to say that our life is known
just not lived out yet?
Why reply to this post? You have to because you were predestined to? Try not
responding. See if that changes the space time continuum.
The meaning that one pours into the Omni's and the Im's matters (sources previously listed).
Tell me all about how smart I think I am (Eph
4:14,
1 Co 1:27).
Tell me all about my thought process (Eph
4:14,
2 Ti 1:7).
