Dearest WhiteDove
Another good question and one I have thought about myself as well. God is eternal (it is only by union with Him that we can live eternally, without union with Him we have death for eternity, death being the absence of God and in the company of Satan …grim thought) God is also infinite. I always get a headache when I consider these things, probably because I’m no genius, but also because it is so hard to comprehend in the finite mind.
Then we have to take into account that God is also Omnipresent…that means He must be outside of time, that although time exists on earth and each thing has a season and a time, it’s journey on earth alotted a time and a function.
So God is infinite, omnipresent and eternal, therefore I think He can exist inside and outside of time, though God is not subject to time as humans are. His hand works in time and creates, takes away, aids and helps in time, but to Him it is an infinite action, this is why God’s love is infinite. God makes all spirits with eternal life, either to be with Him or to be in eternal death apart from Him. We feel that we live without God to some extent on earth because we do not SEE him face to face, so to speak, but God is Spirit. He is present everywhere, He is always with us and the evidence of His presence is in the very life around us and within us. This is how God can exist in time through us, but is always infinite. We ourselves are eternal, though we are prone to think of only this life and not the everlasting life. (through original sin we lost our eternal life and death destroyed us, but through Jesus He bought us back by His own sacrifice, the eternal life and not eternal death) God made us in His own image, as God is triune, so are we in that we have a body, spirit and soul. We are to become as the body of Christ, this is a mysetery, the mystical body of Christ which we are to become part of, though existing as our own spirit for eternity we are united in Christs body, who is the body of the Church and of which we are part, Spirit is God and Soul equates to the Holy Spirit, which raises, guides and counsels the soul to the Spirit.
We refer to God as Father, as Jesus has taught us, but God is Spirit, neither male or female but encompasses both,( we are made in His image male and female) just so as God is in time and outside it, existing purely as timeless, free from the constraints of time as are we, though we do not see it always, we are as God is, when we live in union with Him and also through the benefit of His love and grace are timeless, we exist beyond the grave, but whilst on this earth we are subject to time, until our judgement.
Hmmm well , until we die we will never realise the full extent of this. It is a mystery of faith, but one I love because we no longer die but become as of God in union with Him by our faith, love and acts…pretty well fantastic when you think about it!!! God is good!!!
God Bless you and much love and peace to you
Teresa