Regeneration Buried with Christ into death,
so that we might be raised to life.
(Romans 6)
Conversion
Regeneration
Born of Water
Eating His flesh
Live Forever
Solely By Grace
I am the bread of life:
he that cometh to me shall never hunger;
AND he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
(John 6:35)
Conversion
Born of Spirit
Drinking His blood
Hath Eternal Life
By Faith & Works
Except a man be born of water AND of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
(John 3:5)

Is God restrained by time?

From the moment God created day and night, He has been restrained by time. He will remain restrained by time, until the last day, when He eventually destroys time. This is evident throughout scripture, but the most evident of these are found in the creation. God created in accordance with set periods of time, and He rested at a particular time. Furthermore, God waited on Noah for 120 days, and sent His Son in due time. If God is not restrained by time, He would not have waited, nor would He have sent Christ "in due time". Likewise, God has determined a particular day to be the last day and is the only one who knows the very minute that will occur. God has decreed that certain events will occur at certain times and is restrained by time, for He will not do them until the time decreed.

God certainly has a concept of time and exists in accordance with the time which He created. For God, during this created period of time, there is a yesterday, today, and tomorrow. This cannot be denied because God's own words make reference to such. In the beginning of time, God created the heavens and the earth. These events did not occur in the past, present, and future all at once. God's very own word says "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven".

No, His knowledge of the future is not limited, and He has been since eternity past, and will exist in eternity future, but He cannot traverse time while it exists. There is no scriptural support that He moves into the future, or back in time. If He could traverse time, then there would be multiple ME's. One for each second of time that I shall live. But there is only a single ME, and I only exist in this time.

God does however, control earths time by controlling the movement of the planet. Scripture reveals that He has stopped the movement of the sun and stars, moved the sun back and forth, but He has never altered time as such that time was added or lost universally.

God did create time and will eventually destroy time, and thus is not controlled by time in the sense that humans are. It is rather by His own decree that He is controlled by time. He has created time and is controlled by it, in the sense that He has decreed that certain things will occur at certain points in time. He is therefore restrained from making those events occur, until the time He has decreed.

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