Does the future exist ?

[The_Patriot21]

My line of logic is that God, is outside of time. What we view as time, God sees like say, a big painting, or a comic strip-He can see the beginning, and the end.

[MorningGlory]

So everyone so far has no scriptures about the future existing but assuming God can do anything that we can imagine him to do.

Hebrews 6:18 God cannot lie

I know that God has his plans for the future and that it will exist someday.

But to say that we are of the past is kinda strange to be alive as we are now.

I think we are on the same time that God is on up to the minutes.

Simple logic tells us that God provided the prophecies of the Bible.....the future.  If He was limited to the present He could not know the future. 

[Omegaman 3.0]

Does the future exist?

Not yet, that is why it is called the future!

[OldSchool2]

Some believe that God can go to the future . This thought is connected to those who believe in predestination. 

 

I think God has a plan for the future and that he can tell about events that will transpire into something.

 

I don't see it that the future actually exist sometime ahead of us, but it exist as of now.

 

What do you think ?

I think foreknowledge is not the same as fatalism.

[KPaulG]

God can do everything.

 

So my answer is yes.

 

God Bless you.

 

Your brother in Christ,

KPaulG.

[Ezra]

Agreed. God can not be constrained by His creation. God exists outside of our understanding of time. Just because we are limited to our present, does not mean God is limited. 

Correct. God has omniscience, and within that omniscience, He has foreknowledge. Divine foreknowledge means that God knows absolutely everything about the future long before it happens. And He also foreordains (or predestines) many thing long before they happen. The crucifixion of Christ and the defeat of Satan at the Cross were known at the time of the Fall (Gen 3:15).  In fact they were known from "before the foundation of the world" (1 Pet 1:20).

Since God knew everything in advance, why did He allow sin and evil into the world?  Because He would use them for His own eternal purposes, to display His infinite grace on one hand, and His absolute righteousness on the other hand (Eph 1:3-6).

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

[Omegaman 3.0]

Are you sure Paul?

Titus 1:2

2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago, 

[KPaulG]

Are you sure Paul?

Titus 1:2

2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago, 

Can you explain further what you mean, Oman?

 

God Bless you.

 

Your brother in Christ,

KPaulG.

Edited October 22, 2015 by KPaulG

[hmbld]

Are you sure Paul?

Titus 1:2

2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago, 

lol, anything that is not against His nature, nice one mega.

[Omegaman 3.0]

Sure Paul, you said God, can do anything. I am merely pointing out that the Bible specifies that there is at least one thing that God cannot do, He cannot lie! As hmbld pointed out, God cannot go againsts His nature. 

Everything is limited by it's nature. You cannot flap you limbs and fly, because it is not your nature to fly, but it is natural for a bird to fly, because it is the bird's nature. 

God does what fits His nature, His nature, is one of perfection, no sin is in Him. We have a nature that unfortunetly, is imperfect, we fall short, we sin. That is why we need a savior.