We experience time in a linear fashion because that's just how our minds work. The divine exists throughout all of time, space, dimensions, matter, energy, et cetera. What happened in the "past" is no less current than what happens in the "future." Our lives exist in all of those time-periods, same as the divine

For me my view of a much more hands off approach of agod males me think that God lives in time like we do.

of our life. If God lives in our "current" time, and we are alive in each moment of our whole lives, then God lives across all of that time, same as us

I think the problem we have in visualizing this is that we don't live our lives in full comprehension of all time. I believe that God does, because time is also a dimension of volume, and not only a measurement from one point to another (the linear nature of our lives.) Plus, there's the idea of higher-numbered dimensions for what we'd call Heaven, the afterlife, and so forth. God exists in those, too, as I believe.

Thanks for the thread. It's nice to have conversations like this, and hope more join in

God is outside of, and thereby permeates, time.

Mass has been described, not as a remembrance or reproduction of the Passion, but as being present at it.

From the Catholic Catechism:

tha ks for the quote.

But I dont' really have any conception of how that works - the closest I come is a if you can imagine say - a camera set up on Times Square - you project what that camera sees 24 hours a day on to an LCD screen in a picture frame; to you the picture would constantly change with time. To God, though - it would all be one thing. One picture.

But it's hard to conceptualize.

Bryant

God is outside of time; time began and will end.
The Divine has no beginning and no end.
My human mind does not/cannot comprehend all the nuances of time and eternity.

At Time=0, the divine was all there was. Then creation (space/time) happened, and the divine continued into space/time in relationship to the creation (which was made out of the substance of the divine).