Thoughts on God and Time

The following is simply an argument regarding the characteristics of God found in the Bible with what we empirically know about our world.

As human beings we live in a world full of complexity. However, one very clear element of our world, what we could call our frame of reference, is that it is subject to constant change. A method for tracking this change is time. Arguably, time is little more than a scalar quantity used solely for the purpose of tracking change. However, it is a good common demoninator for describing this continual state of change.

Time, as we know it, always moves forward. Absent some force beyond nature, it plows forward with little control by that which is subject to it. In our frame of reference we are continually subject to time and its march towards infinity.

However, we know that God is not subject to time specifically because of the higher traits like omnipotence and omnipresence. If God were subject to time, God could not possess these characteristics since being tied to this frame of reference ultimately requires participation in the unknown chaos of change. Therefore, God must exist outside of our frame of reference, outside of our linear existence, and not subject to the forces of change that drive us ever forward here on Earth.