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NASB | Isaiah 46:9 "Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 46:9 "Remember [carefully] the former things [which I did] from ages past; For I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is no one like Me, |
Bible Question: It time relevant to God ? I need scriptures ? |
Bible Answer: Hi, jlbutch... That question has always interested me, too. I think it is important to remember that time was created just as space was created by God. He is not subject to space, so it is not logical to assume that He is subject to time. The great theologian Loraine Boetner said, "We are creatures of time, and often fail to take into consideration the fact that God is not limited as we are. That which appears to us as past, present, and future, is all present to His mind." (Note, that this does not mean that all events of history look to God as if they were really in the present -- for God sees events in time and acts in time -- but rather that all time appears to Him with the same clarity as the present appears to us. All of this is difficult for us to understand because it is an existence that is so different from our own.) Regarding the scriptures you are looking for: God has no beginning or end is expressed in Psalm 90:2, Job 36:26, Revelation 1:8, John 8:58, and Exodus 3:14. Physics tell us that matter, time, and space are interdependent. Clearly, though, before there was matter, there was God. Genesis 1:1, John 1:3, 1 Corinthians 8:6, Colossians 1:16, Hebrews 1:2. Take a look at 2 Peter 3:8b, "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Note that Peter is saying that time is irrelevant to God. (See also Psalm 90:4.) To God, all time is equally vivid. From God's perspective, any extremely long period of time is as if it just happened. Isaiah 46:9-10 says, "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure." I've always thought it was interesting here that He says "the end from the beginning." That is the opposite of the way we as humans think of time. As I wrote above, God's perspective is utterly different from our own. Dr. Wayne Grudem writes, "God is the eternal Lord and Sovereign over history, and He sees it more clearly and acts in it more decisively than any other... God's experience of time is not just a patient endurance through eons of endless duration, but He has a qualitatively different experience of time than we do.... This has been the dominant view of Christian orthodoxy throughout the history of the church." I'm sure there are many other passages. I'm running on a tight schedule, so I really can't do this subject the justice that I'd like to do. However, it is my hope that this has been of help. In Him, Doc |
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