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What happened to the long view that God is eternal?

God's Name is I AM.

His Name is also Alpha and Omega.

Time is part of the Creation - not a restriction on the Creator.

In the absence of space, things cannot exist.

In the absence of time, events cannot occur.

Eternity is merely time without end.

"Timeless" is a more appropriate word/concept for meditating on the Name "I AM" of the Creator of time and space.

First Cause and Final Cause - God's Name is Alpha and Omega - applies to the whole Creation in which time, including eternity, is but a part. IOW, Final Cause is not the end point on a timeline.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. – Revelation 1:8

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. – Exodus 3:14

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. – John 8:58

Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send [it] unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. – Revelation 1:11

I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. – Revelation 1:18

Another meditation on timelessness wrt these Names of God is Revelation 5 and again in Revelation 13:

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. – Revelation 13:18

God is not time-bound. We are - and so is eternity.

To God be the glory!

God is not time-bound. We are - and so is eternity.

Thanks but this doesn't apply to the question of God dying.

And, in time, it still leaves the question: What happened to the long view that God is without beginning and without end and everlasting? God being outside time does not mean God dies in time; that God is mortal rather than immortal.

I cannot see how God can kill God without there being two Gods and without contradicting the basic tenets we hold about God.

thanks very much for your reply...