God’s Attribute of Eternality

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Welcome to The Rapid Bull, Daily Edition, where we provide a quick Biblical Interpretations and Applications.

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This is a Ministry of Striving for Eternity. The Attribute of Eternality.

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This describes the fact that God is infinite in relationship to time.

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He has and will continue to exist forever, endlessly. He is from everlasting to everlasting, as Psalm 90, verse 2 says.

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Time does not apply to God the way it does to us and the way we think. God is not restricted by time.

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Time is something that God actually created when He created the time -space -matter continuum. There was a time, we say, where there was no time.

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In other words, this is a way we try to understand God's infiniteness when it comes to time.

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That He is eternal, that He is outside of time. We cannot fully comprehend this, but what we see is that God reveals that He chooses to work within time and respects time, but He is not dependent upon time.

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With God, there is no chronological succession of thoughts as there is with us.

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God is completely and totally conscious and aware of time as we know it, yet, to Him, the past, the present, and the future is all the same eternal now.

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This is the idea of 2 Peter 3, verse 8, where he says to God, what day is a thousand years and a thousand years is a day.

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It is the idea that God is outside of time, that it's all one eternal now to Him.

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This is important when we look at Jesus Christ's death on the cross because He had to be eternal to pay an eternal fine.

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This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org