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To: metmom
I don't think man is capable of understanding how God *sees* time. Times and seasons are mentioned in Scripture. Jesus came in the fullness of time. If time were all happening at once, there could be no fullness of time.

What could be more full than experiencing all of time at once. I do understand that what I tried to explain is a very difficult and deep concept and I only gave the "Readers Digest" version, but it is in fact the truth.

227 posted on 06/06/2012 2:34:56 AM PDT by verga (Party like it is 1773)
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To: verga
What could be more full than experiencing all of time at once.

God is outside of time. He can look into it at anay point from which He chooses but that does not mean God *experiences* time.

And it does not mean what Jesus experienced while in time is what He is experiencing outside of time.

Scripture tells us and is quite clear that outside of time, in eternity, Jesus is seated at the right hand of God the Father, interceding for us.

He is not eternally dying because there is no value in the dying but in the death.

Suffering does not redeem or pay for sins, shedding of blood does.

Suffering teaches us but does not pay for sin.

Hebrews 9:22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Romans 5:3-5 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Hebrews 5:8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.

235 posted on 06/06/2012 6:10:14 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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