Timespace and God

This article is a nice introduction to the issues about time space and the relations of God to it all, including issues of what God does or doesn't know about the future. "If Einstein was right about time — he called it a fourth dimension of physical reality — time is only in the physical realm. For someone who believes only the physical world exists, this raises no problem. For a theist, time as a function of space means God exists outside of time just as God exists outside of space. ...However, Christians insist God is a personal being. Many people have their own spin on this. Cosmologist Paul Davies has argued God cannot be timeless and personal because thinking, conversing, feeling, planning and other activities associated with persons are all temporal activities. In his argument, however, he projects his own human experience on the concept of God."

I'm attracted by the writer's proposed solution but I'm still thinking about whether it really works: "A trinitarian solution may resolve the problem for Christians as to how God relates to time and space. Christians affirm a single creator in God who exists in three persons. Omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence are properties ascribed to God. The Son did not possess these properties during the incarnation, which suggests that the persons of the God-head relate to time and space in different ways. The Holy Spirit interacts with the experiential world in the “now” of time and mediates the physical world to the Son, who guides the cosmos in the “flow” of time. The Son interacts with humanity through the Holy Spirit and mediates with the Father who exists beyond time and space. According to the Bible verse 1 Corinthians 15:28, the Father does not step into this relationship until the new creation. "
Certainly, from my point of view, the incarnation does seem necessary as the means to hold together an extra-temproal God with a relaity that is temporal; however, this is simply to recognise that the issue of finitude has a temporal dimension also...
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