As other scholars have pointed out space time and matter first came into existence Because God created those things. Therefore God is greater than space time and matter. He does not live within time he operates outside of time. Time is creation that God did. Therefore he knows the past the present the future all the time.
Time is mostly understood as just the passing of events. If you are an adult male, living in the US, there is a 50% chance you just have been inside of a jail cell at one point in your life. And while you were there, you found that
it gets hard to keep track of time because there is not much going on inside your cell that noticeably affects you. Your toilet doesn't move, there's no clock on the wall and your buddies outside the jail can't physically come in an tell you what time is.
And this turns out to be somewhat close to the reason why physicists will say that time actually stops at the speed of light. As light propagates from one point to another, it happens so fast that nothing else is fast enough to affect it in any noticable way. So there isn't a physical marker or clock a beam of light can use to
"count the passing of time", it like being in a jail cell (not a
perfect analogy but a relatable one)
I believe it's at this point where Christians realize "Hey but God doesn't have to wait for a photon to hit his eye before He can see a beam of light..because He's God!" (and this is correct) so in this sense God
is actually faster than light and we conclude from this that;
if time stops a light speed then God must be
OUTSIDE of time.
But this is wrong. We forget that the faculties people use to notice the passing of time in the universe, don't work exactly the same way as they do and will in the spiritual realm. Currently, even the most cleverest of ways we have of modeling and "counting" the passing of time are all still limited by the capabilities of our physical peripheral system because, ultimately all of the information we acquire in the universe has to be converted into an electrochemical signal. That is how WE work. But God doesn't have these limitations so when we wrongly apply our model to Him, we get
infinity. In other words, the answer we get is that God must be seeing or knowing or experiencing the entire past and future all at once. All at the same instant. Forever.
We eventually have to decide which one of the following is true:
A) God is infinity unable to notice the passing of time. (As though he were in a jail cell. Unable to be affected by anything).
or
B) Our current capabilities for modeling and even noticing the passing of time, are limited.
And I think the best way to know for certain which answer is correct, is to just look at the Bible. God is constantly affected by our actions and our prayers. Because He is relational and things change. And the Bible even describes time in heaven. There really isn't a reason to make it any more complicated than that.
Rev 8:1 "When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour"
