If God knows the past, present, & future?

Question

Wouldn't that mean that the future became the past?

If he knows the future..., wait, thats totally illogical...!!!

How can God have a future (that hasn't happened yet) that he knows about? That doesn't even make sense.

To God, only the past is possible, perhaps?

If God has seen all, knows all, nothing new under the sun exists to God, then only the past is possible to God.

Let me explain: The future doesn't exist to God (because he has already lived it and knows everything that is gonna happen, making it the past to God)

The present does not exist to God (because he has already lived that too, remember, nothing new under the sun to God. (So what we would consider present & future, has already been seen/lived before by God, making every moment in history, past tense to God, who already knows what will happen.)

This means, everything has already been planned out, there are no surprises to God?

Even more amazing, God only lives in the past?

Your thoughts, please!

Answer 1

Let me try to explain you in this way.

You wrote a script for a movie.
when you are making the movie u already know whats going to happen, when u go to the premire u alreay know whats going to happen in the moive from the first moment to the end.

this is same what the same situation here, God knows what had happened, good knows whats is happening, and god knows what will happen,
but it does not mean it happened.

when we say good s now the past,present and future ,
It means he knows what happend to us, he knows what is happening to us and he knows what will happen to us.
the tenses are for describing our life not his.

Answer 2

I think for God, everything is the present. He is constantly in existance, but He isn't stuck in the past. He is infinite, so for Him, I would say He is beyond past and future. He is always in the present. Yes, He has planned everything out, but He isn't bored with His plan. Everything will work out in the end for Him, and that glorifies Him for all of eternity. He is amazing, it's too bad a lot of people don't see that. I hope you find the answer you're looking for, God bless.

Answer 3

wow, that's a lot to try and keep up with. God gave us the right to make choices, though we don't always do what's right. He knows when we'll sin and when we'll do right. He's God, He knows everything. He of course remembers the past, don't you remember what you had for lunch yesterday? He knows what's going on now, and what will be going on in the future. Only He knows, we just have to have faith. It seems to me you're making a mess of past tense, present tense, and future tense verbs of the english language....confusing, i know.

Answer 4

Wow...you got yourself so confused and you are getting everybody else as well.
God is God...
God has no past or future...
He is the past & the future....
He is the great I am..
Moses asked God who he shall say that spoke to him if the people of Israel asked, God said, "I AM THAT I AM"
Ponder for a moment the the meaning of I AM THAT I AM (I am He)

JESUS IS GOD & THERE IS NO OTHER GOD BEFORE HIM AND NEITHER WILL THERE BE ANY AFTER HIM!

Answer 5

I would say that God knows the future because his mind in infinately superior to ours. He can make educated guesses (Times 1,000,000) and predict what is going to happen. He knows each heart, each thought, and can very easily deduce if he has that kind of knowledge. Also he has been known to make his will be done. We can't even begin to speculate about God's knowledge when the bible states "Every hair on your head is counted," or "He calls all the stars by their name!"

Answer 6

why do you see God as such a limited entity?

I mean I get that you can't fathom it in its whole, but I never thought the whole "infinite" thing was really that hard to conceptualize to a certain point.

but really its not an issue of God at all, but of the nature of time.

you are assuming that God experiences things chronologically, like we do, which really just doesn't make sense. God is entirely outside of time, beyond it absolutely.

like if you had a 10 mile long length of 1 inch thick rope.

now, your an itty bitty bug walking along that rope.

your going to have a hell of a time seeing even an itty bitty bit of that rope at any one time, and in your entire life span that your concerned with, your only going to have the slightest awareness whatsoever of a very short percentage of that rope..
now God on the other hand, is this massively bigger entity, that is infinitely aware of not only the full length of the rope, compared to your tiny segment that you experienced over your entire life span, (let alone what you experience at any one time in particular) but every aspect of every bit and segment and fragment and whatnot. every single bit of that rope in its absolute entirety, is absolutely known.

the chronology of time, from the point of view of that bug is utterly meaningless in comparison.

Answer 7

Knowing the past, present, & future is not very much amazing for God. It is very ordinary for him just as it is not astonishing for us to know the the past, present, & future of different seasons. We knew in the past regarding winter, summer, autumn etc... and at present we know the same seasons and in future we will know the same seasons.

Answer 8

A prophecy is the foretelling of things to come (Future).
Biblical prophecies have been coming true for ages, even today.
That's why there are so many believers.
I may be wrong, but who am I to argue with 100's of prophecies that keep on coming true.

Answer 9

"Surely this (the Qur'an) is a reminder; so, whoever is willing, he may take a path to his Lord. And you do not will unless God wills...." 76:29-30

" It is naught but thy trial . Thou causest to err thereby whomever Thou pleasest and guidest whomever Thou pleasest...." 7:155



If this is true, we have to ascribe to God all the injustices, aggressions and crimes which man commits. But no believer in God would ascribe to Him our vices and sins.

The truth is that God has created in man the power of choosing, and this means that He granted him a free will. God can direct man's will and make him choose a certain course if He wants to, but nothing in our life indicates that God usually interferes in our will. Since He granted us the power of choosing, we should expect Him to leave us without intervention. This means that He expects us to use our power of choosing and make our own decisions and have our own choices.

Our knowledge of certain events does not determine those events, nor does our knowledge cause those events to happen. I know, for example, that all the workers at a particular factory eat their lunch at noon. This does not mean that my knowledge or expectation has caused them to take their lunch at that time. God, no doubt, foresees our future, but this does not necessarily mean that all our future actions are caused by His knowledge. Each and every one of our actions has its own cause, and the main factor is the particular human will which calls for such an action.

In addition to this, God knows that I will do a certain thing by my own free will. Since the knowledge of God does not fail, my action has to be a free action caused by my free will. Should my action prove to be a product of compulsion, the knowledge of God would fail. The knowledge of God never fails; therefore, I will not fail to make my own decision, by my own free will.

Answer 10

Of course heknows what is going to happen and nothing is a suprise to him. He told us clearly in Revalation how the world is going to end. He knows wheter or not we are going to hell or not.