God and Time

I was pondering the concept of time in relation to God.  Time is an Earthly measure of preceding and coming events.  However, God is not under the restrictions of time (He created time after all) as is relevant by God being everywhere and at everytime.  He does not necessarily see the future as He is already there.  He knows the past, present, and future because He exists in all three simultaneously.  This implies that He has existed forever although that doesn't make much sense since He exists forever long ago at the present moment.

I started to think that maybe God is like a timeline.  We can point our view at a certain specific point on the line but we can go an infinite distance in either direction.  However, that places God under the restriction of time.  So, I came to the conclusion that the universe has not been around forever.  God started time at some point.  He created a line with a starting point and an ending point.  He placed all the events on the line (creation, humans, extinction, etc) and pressed "Go".

Thus, as far as time is concerned, God is looking in from the outside watching it go by much like we can watch the little dot move across iTunes when listening to a song.  He can go backwards, forwards, and play the timeline He has created.  Obviously, He does this all simultaneously since He is everywhere on the timeline at once.

This is not saying God is the 'clock maker God'.  He is most certainly involved personaly and significantly in all of our lives.  This only pertains to the subject of God and time.