Time X Infinity...

In a comment to a recent post one of my nephews addressed the concept of free will in relation to our infiniteGod... In my response I said, in essence, that my desire in that blog was not to limit choices, but to start people thinking in a new direction, to see there may be more choice than merely the conventional ... How we think definitely colors our perspective of God, for we have a finite, created mind and God is the infinite Uncreated, and the created cannot ever fully comprehend the Creator. It is our very view of time that limits and distorts our understanding of God, the Timeless.
We measure time by a succession of events along a line, and define time by the relative proximity of each event to another. To us Time is linear. We are bound dimentionally in our thinking, by time and space... Our finite minds operate three-dimensionally, yet God exists in and beyond our finite understanding of dimension... He is outside of time and space, for indeed, these are two concepts he created. In our linear thinking, God is at the first event of our timeline, and the last event, and each one in-between, all at the same instant. It is God's transcendence of time and space that fetters our minds and makes us captive to only those concepts of God that are digestable to our finite minds, rather than allowing the possibility of God being in complete control of his creation and still allowing his createds the ability to have free will, or free choice in their lives. To a finite mind these are contridictory, but to God they are not only possible, but exist according to his Word... An example of our finte thinking: An atheist friend once asked me that old conundrum, "If God can do anything can he make a rock too heavy for him to lift?" And I answered an emphatic "Yes!". Of course the argument followed, if he can make the rock he can't lift it, or if he can lift it he can't make the rock. My answer was simple: I believe God can do anything, and that means he can make that rock, and he can lift it. I went further to say that the average person uses ten-percent or less of his brain; if there is ninety-percent of our brain, our understanding, left unused, did my friend really want to make a definitive statement that something was impossible based on a 10% understanding? The question is linear, the answer is faith in God outside the constraints of linear finite thinking. It can be done. We need to think of God outside the constraints of finite linear thinking, then we begin to see, to understand in some small measure the awesomeness of our Creator, then we begin to realize and understand the true depth of worship. We need to think outside the box...
(Nate, if or when you read this, I hope it clarifies somewhat my mindset. As the commercial kind of says, "This blog's for you!)