Opus 2025-186: Time in

Does God exist inside time, outside time, a combination of both or in some relationship that we can’t even conceive.  I think the default answer is the last.  As finite human beings, there is no way we can understand what it would mean to be outside time.  As an infinite God I can’t picture Him being locked inside.

It may be, that the only reason we are even able to conceive of the idea of the God of the Bible is because at some point in the past He chose to enter time.  This would still allow His eternal existence.  It’s just that the essence of who He was or what He knew or experienced would change when He entered time.  Obviously that must have been before creation.  Also obviously, understand this is pure speculation.  I’m not trying to make a theological point to establish a new doctrine.  It’s just in my mind goes on these rabbit trails.

As I go down this burrow I come to another junction.  The one that looks most interesting is the one that asked the question, “If God came from outside time and into time, was that transition on the same level of pain as the crucifixion?”  I think of Jesus on the cross, crying out, “My God, my God why have you forsaken me?”  If God came from outside time as the only God to inside time, would He have cried out something similar, or let out some kind of divine primordial scream?  Obviously, since He is the only God that would leave no one to hear Him.

If you haven’t given up on me, stay with me for a little longer. Would He at that point have been aware of where He was going with this?   Would He at that point known that He was going to not only create a universe but creatures in His own image?  Would He at that point known that the sacrifice of the Son would be necessary?  Would He have known?

Who am I to ask such questions?  Perhaps a creature that was created in His image.

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