The great majority of human beings have thought of God as being a person who experiences time, matter, motion and all physical things the way we humans do. And so they presume that God acts in a similar way that humans do, with one action following another. We humans can try to imagine infinity but I know of none who have actually been able to do it. And so we get a great deal of very intelligent people making statements which place God’s action in time. Even the Sacred Scriptures do this, to a certain extent, because though they were inspired by God they were written by human beings.

This is how we get doctrines that imagine God changing His mind or acting in one way in a certain time and another way in other times. We see salvation as a “timed even” which can happen at any moment or “at the end of time”, when in the reality of God there is simply no time to end.

This causes gross mistakes in theology, but we are human beings who cannot do anything perfectly except be perfectly human and limited. God has created us this way. We experience time and motion and many other limitations, while God is absplutely unlimited in every way.

Our theology (logic regarding God) will always fall short because we cannot be infinite. Those who claim they know everything know very little. It’s the simple acceptance of God that allows us to live and move and have our being. It is God who provides it all.