It’s hard for our minds to wrap around but I think the sense of time we have here will be different on the other side. There is the metaphor of a thousand years being like a day to God but I just think that means the constraints of time don’t apply to God as they do to us. Time is here for this universe so it works the way it does. Once we leave this mortal coil I guess we step outside of time. Its hard for us to conceive since all we have known has been in this time dependant universe. It will be a new experience that’s for sure. One of the descriptions of God is that he is the alpha and the omega. The beginning and the end. I take that to mean simultaneously in that God completely envelops the universe. He is already there at the at the end waiting for us outside of time if you can imagine that. Just my take. I could be completely wrong of course
I got this from someone who said if you take a blank sheet of paper and put a dot on it and that dot represents the entire universe and then draw a line from it but don’t take it all the way to edge you have the universe through time from beginning to end. The sheet of paper is God completely surrounding our universe simultaneously.
That’s wild.
Well, it sure is something to look forward to :)
From Olaf Stapledon, a science fiction writer from almost a century ago:
Our conception of time itself is now turning out to be very incoherent and superficial.
Perhaps, from the point of view of eternity, the end of the cosmos is also its source and its temporal beginning.
Perhaps the ultimate flower is also the primal seed from which all sprang.
Perhaps the final result of the cosmical process is the attainment of full cosmical consciousness, and yet what is attained in the end is also, from another point of view, the origin of all things.
So to speak, God, who created all things in the beginning, is himself created by all things in the end.
https://archive.org/details/OlafStapledonInterplanetaryMan/page/n9 — Page 231
Olaf Stapledon’s Address to the British Interplanetary Society, November, 1948
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I also like John Wheeler’s participatory anthropic principle.