Is Our God, The God of Instantaneous Eternity???

OK, this post starts with a disclaimer. If this starts to make your head hurt, then just stop reading. I’m only barely grasping at straws with this one. 🙂 Rather than being annoyed by this one, if it isn’t for you, then please stop reading and let this one go by for someone else to read.

If you are still with me, then let’s buckle up and see where this takes us??? 🙂

God is ALL Powerful!
Hopefully we can all agree on that one.
Time is also different for God.
Hopefully we can agree on that one as well. The bible does state in,
2 Peter 3:8
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

So time is different to God than it is for us (mere humans).
But what does that different look like???
Could it be something of an “Intstataneous Eternity” ???

I know, an “Instantaneous Eternity”, sounds like an oxymoron. It just doesn’t, humanly speaking, make sense. They are two opposite ends of the spectrum of time put together. For us mere humans, it just can not be.
But, is God constrained by the same laws of time that we are?

I’ve already stated that time is different for God, and shown a Bible verse to back this up. So I do think that God is Not constrained by the laws of time as we are.

So, is there any reality to the idea that God could, in an instant, experience an eternity?
An “Instantaneous Eternity ” ???

I’m just putting an idea out there. But if there is any truth to the idea, then what could this possibly mean?

One of the things that I have struggled with is freewill working with predestination in unity.

To me, they were opposites on the same spectrum.
To me, they have looked as if they were an oxymoron.
My thinking used to be we either have freewill to make our own choices, or we are predestined to follow a path that has been laid down before us. How could we have both, working in unity with each other?

Enter God with His time frame of “Instantaneous Eternity” … ???
In all our instances we have the freewill to make our choices.
God, in His “Instantaneous Eternity” already knows what our freewill choices will be, as they are just a history, that He already knows… ??

Isaiah 46:9-10
 Remember the former things, those of long ago;
    I am God, and there is no other;
    I am God, and there is none like me.
¹⁰ I make known the end from the beginning,
    from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say, ‘My purpose will stand,
    and I will do all that I please.’

So could we have freewill and predestination, working hand in hand, both at the same time??

I’m not trying to say that this “Instantaneous Eternity” idea is fully correct. I just don’t have the credentials to do that. All that I’m doing is passing on something that I’ve had a glimpse of, that I am trying to make sense of in my own mind.

At best, could I class this account as being an instance where
1 Corinthians 13:12 applies?

¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

For any who are still with me, I hope that I haven’t made your head hurt too much. 🙂

I do pray that anyone who has read this, and all it has done is cause confusion, that Our Lord God would intercede and bring clarification or just let it fall away as an idea that doesn’t matter.

I also pray for any who have read this and can possibly see something here, that Our Lord God would also intercede and bring His clarification, and a way to apply these thoughts, in a way that brings Glory to Our Lord God Almighty.

Proverbs 9:10

¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
    and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

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As I have thought about this post, a thought has come to me.
It comes from the 1 Corinthians 13:12 verse.

¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

If Our God dwells in the “Instantaneous Eternity”, then when we go to be with Our Father in Heaven, (for those who accept and follow Our Lord God Almighty) then will we then experience the “Instantaneous Eternity” also???

But what about those who don’t know and follow Our Lord God Almighty?
Will they then experience an “Instantaneous Eternity” of the not so nice place… (Hell) ???
Will they, in every instant, know the full terror of all that is in their realm???

Suddenly, Hell seems to be a whole lot more, of a scary place to be. … ???

If Our Heavenly Father prompts us to speak up for Him in …… , then can we do so, so that we can then lead as many as possible away from such a place???

If you haven’t made the choice to follow Our Lord God Almighty, then maybe you might want to change that position now?
The starting place could simply be asking, “God, if You are really there, then help me to see and know You.”
If you do take that first step, then Our Lord God will lead and guide you.
We all, just need to be willing to hear, and follow His ways.

Another follow up step could be to use the Lords Prayer as a model for how to pray.
A previous post of How Do You Pray when you feel you just can’t do anything? looks into how to do this.