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God inhabits eternity. He had no creator. There can be no God before or after Him. All things were created by Him. He is outside of time, therefore He can know the beginning from the end. Being outside time, the Godhead alone possesses the attributes of omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence. His sovereignty is unbreachable. The Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world.

Isa 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place],

The mind of God conceived our reality before He executed it by creating our time domain. He knew all who He would create before He injected the information into our time domain. The physical non-eternal, as well as the massless identity that is our created eternal soul.

Information is massless, yet once conceived and imprinted on hardware becomes a reality, as with a program burnt on a CD. Like God we can conceive and make use of organized intelligent information (made in His image).

Can a programmer know what he will program before he makes it a reality? Nothing becomes a reality without God's approval. The free souls He created that can also create ideas and make use of them, is a chance He chose to take. The consequences related to that freedom has been accepted before He executed His creation. Hence the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. The eternal significance of the cross will not be understood until we reach the other side.

Therein lies the confusion of Calvinists. They have trouble reconciling the sovereignty of God with the free will of man. Therein also lies the problem for evolutionists. They do not understand how God is outside of time and our reality is but a stationary canvas to Him.

The Father in eternity can know the day or the hour, but the Son who is constrained by having been injected into our time domain cannot. In the same way, God in eternity can know us before we are physically conceived and yet we are not created until He injects us into that physical hardware.

"Therein lies the confusion of Calvinists. They have trouble reconciling the sovereignty of God with the free will of man. Therein also lies the problem for evolutionists. They do not understand how God is outside of time and our reality is but a stationary canvas to Him."

I do not have a problem with the sovereignty of God, He is the Heavenly Father, that created alll souls. I cannot find the abstract idea that you call God Written about.

The Heavenly Father IS TIME, no beginning or end, that is TIME, He established it and He sent us a book that gives us a glimpse of HIS TIME.

The Heavenly Father as the "programmer" tells us through Solomon in Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said,'See this is new?' it hath been already of OLD time, which was before us.

11 There is NO remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

This Book of Ecclesiastes is Written to the flesh man under the sun regarding the vanities of flesh and there is more to the flesh man than just his/her flesh.