Time and God's relationship to it

Time came into existence with creation.

God established a point of reference by a consistent process He put in place--the rotation of the earth full circle: Genesis 1.3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that [it] [was] good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

Time is the measuring of sequential events according to the divinely establish point of reference.

God is the creator and not the created. So what is His relationship to time?

God's relationship to time would be the same as with creation, since time came into existence with creation.

Contrary to the view of the Deist, who would say God is withdrawn from His creation, the Bible reveals God's involvement with His creation. The Apostle Paul says, "He is not far from each one of us" (Acts 17.27). The Bible is full of accounts of God's activity and involvement with His creation.

God has an existence which is separate and independent from His creation. Does this mean He both exists in time and out of time? How does time pass in connection with God's own existence?

The claim can be made that if God exists outside creation, then He exists outside time. Our experience is linear, but God's is not. He exists, and the past, present, and future are all in His view.

Such an idea seems simple enough. However, I still wonder if the acts of God are not sequential? Until things were created, they didn't exist, for there was a time—so to speak—that time did not exist.

What about the future? Does the future already exist? If it does, how did it get there? It's simple enough to say God dwells outside time which includes the future. But wouldn't that mean it already exists? If it does, how did it get there unless it was already created or always existed?

If the future doesn't already exist, but only comes into existence as the present moves forward, does this limit God?

Could it be that only the present exists? The past is gone. Its over and done with.

I question that the past exists in any real sense. I question that the future exists. If the past and the future exist in some real continuous sense, what determines the present?

We experience life linearly. So what about God? Did creation have a beginning, or have all the events of creation always existed?

If they have not always existed, then why should we think the events of the future already exist? For if they do exist, how did they get there, unless they were created? If the future already exists, and the past already exists, what really determines the present?

I don't know what it really means to say God dwells outside time, if only the present exists. We can say God dwells outside creation, but that may just have to do with the nature of His existence. If God is linear in His experience, maybe the passing of time for creation is just an insertion into His eternal linear experience.

God knows the future. How is that? If only the present exists, then how does God know the future?

If God knows the present perfectly, he could know the future perfectly.

God's knowledge of the future must be due to His perfect knowledge of His creation at all times. God who created such complex things can know perfectly every detail of life and can determine the future. He knows what man by His freewill will do, and this is figured into the future as God by His sovereignty determined what He will allow and what He will limit, as to man's free will.