Yes!!! God is outside time and has known before creation who would choose to become believers and those He has predestined.
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Yes!!! God is outside time and has known before creation who would choose to become believers and those He has predestined.
Yes!!! God is outside time and has known before creation who would choose to become believers and those He has predestined.
The timelessness of God is self-evident.ummm no.
God cannot be eternal and outside time as well.
What God formed in the beginning of this creation was measured time. Men have imagined many things about God and the fact that some or many hold to a man made belief still does not make it truth.
Here was a descent reference work I found awhile back;
When Reading in the Greek, We See that God
- is timeless
- in an eternal now
- not was, nor will be, but only is
- has no past
- has no future.
Of course NOT ONE of these phrases is in the Bible. They're from Plato. And the Platonists. For the reformation broke with Rome, but not with Greece. So these philosophical terms are uncritically repeated by the Christian authors of typical systematic theology textbooks, and therefore, taught to young ministers in seminary.
In the section heading just above, the word Greek does not refer, as many would assume, to the text of the New Testament that was originally written in Greek. Rather, it was used to refer to pagan Greek philosophy, which insisted that God exists outside of time. In contrast, the Hebrew and Greek terms in the Bible about God and time are TOTALLY different and refer not to timelessness but to unending duration. The phrases in the Scriptures all speak of God existing through unending time and an everlasting duration. The above timelessness terms are foreign to the reader of God's Word, whereas the Bible's many terms, as listed below, are all so very familiar from our reading of Scripture.
When Reading the Bible, We See that God:
is - and was - and is to come - Whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting - Forever and ever - The Ancient of Days - From before the ages of the ages - From ancient times - the everlasting God - He continues forever - From of old - Remains forever - Immortal - The Lord shall endure forever - Who lives forever - God’s years - manifest in His own time - Everlasting Father - Alive forevermore - Always lives - Forever - Continually - God’s years never end - From everlasting to everlasting - From that time forward, even forever - And of His kingdom there will be no end.
Is God Outside of Time? Not according to the Bible. | KGOV.com
Predestination is also foreign to the biblical account.
To be created in the image of God we as intelligent beings experience free will and to assert that everything is predestined seeks to remove this part of God's image from us and ultimately would imply that God has no free will if, in fact his image doesn't reflect having it.
Time was created for man not God!!! God is outside time! God says He is the Alpha and Omega =the Beginning and the End!!