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Does God the Father have a timetable?

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Eddie, I don't know what you're asking here, so you'll have to forgive me. Does the Father have a timetable? Is that what you mean to say? Well, let's put it this way. Timetable would just be another way to describe the fact that the Father knows the end from the beginning, not only including us, but Himself as well. So the Father knows His own. So God knows everything that will be experienced in eternity, if we can say that, from beginning, and we can't say that, because there's no beginning to eternity, but He just knows all of it. Contemplate that one for a while, that God knows not only everything about you, but everything about Himself. And everything about Himself is eternal and infinite, and yet God knows it all at the same time. We're dealing with a very esoteric, completely not understandable being when you get to the nitty-gritty of who God is. That's one good use of metaphysics: it tells us that we can't escape that question, which is, what does God think of Himself and how much of Himself? Well, He has to think of all of Himself. Well, how long? See, metaphysics brings you to that point where if that's not true, then you don't have God. You have something else. So now you could say it in a way where you say God has a timetable.

Answered by Dr. Robert Sungenis

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