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To: HapaxLegamenon
The biggest problem with time travel is that one cannot go to a place that doesn’t exist... like the past... or the future.

In all seriousness, I've wondered if God's omnipresence is at least 4-dimensional, including time (perhaps more dimensions than that, but I'm channeling the furthest reaches of my memory from back when I read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time LOL).

It's possible that God's ability to give prophets insight into the future is not just from being omniscient (He knows everything, enough to accurately predict what will happen in the future). It's possible that God is currently present in the future, and currently present in the past, and currently present in the present. For example, maybe God acts on our prayers before we pray them (Isaiah 65:24) because today, right now, He's hearing the prayers that we'll pray tomorrow. Right now He's seeing me being born while He's also seeing when I'll die while He's also seeing me in the here and now.

Just a thought.

20 posted on 01/14/2025 11:26:01 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Right now He’s seeing me being born while He’s also seeing when I’ll die while He’s also seeing me in the here and now.


Would you like some aspirin for your headache?

God tells us “I AM”, not will be or was..............

I will get my own aspirin.


21 posted on 01/14/2025 11:31:05 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Tell It Right

That’s how I think it is. Another way to visualize it is get a blank piece of paper. Put a dot on it. That is the universe. From the dot draw a line for a few inches. That is the universe through time from beginning to end. God is the paper itself completely underpinning the universe and surrounding it throughout time.


31 posted on 01/14/2025 11:44:11 AM PST by xp38
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To: Tell It Right; xp38

Hugh Ross suggests visualizing God’s reality this way:

We exist on a line of time, just moving on it in one direction. But God exists in more dimensions of time, as though He sits on a globe of time, from which He can and does drop down to any and every point on our line.


48 posted on 01/14/2025 12:37:50 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“The King of Kings salvation brings—let loving hearts enthrone Him.”)
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To: Tell It Right
"It's possible that God is currently present in the future, and currently present in the past, and currently present in the present"

He is outside of all those constructs. He created them and visits whenever and wherever He wants.

65 posted on 01/14/2025 1:42:03 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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