ElijahW
Im not sure what you mean when you say dont change do you mean to not move, think, or function in any way? Akin to a video recorder left on pause? Or do you mean to have the same character, essence, perspective etc. today as you had yesterday.
If the former, then how did God create? If the latter, than how do you conclude that time only applies to those that change? Your claim makes no sense to me; please explain.
Like an image on a paused video recorder would be the closer example. There is nowhere for God to move to, we move within God. There is no other function for God to do other than the function God did from the start.
A crude philosophy run down since this isnt making any sense to you. Around 500 bc Heraclitus popularizes the idea that Everything changes and nothing remains still. It was popular because it coincided with what we experienced in the world where everything seems to be in flux.
This thinking is countered with Parmenides and popularized and discussed at great length by Plato. The argument is made that it isnt that everything is in flux, just everything we can perceive by our senses. And what we can see changing, according to Plato, is just a reflection of the true eternal elements that we cant perceive but we can conceive through our intellect or reasoning
That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is. Plato Timaeus.
To the platonic philosophers of the time and those influenced by them, the Ideas we perceived in our intellect were real and proof of an eternal side to the universe. This thinking can be seen in the NT at 2 Cor 4:18 As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Now the eternal side here isnt just speaking of God exclusively. God is constant but is also the basis of the ideas we are interacting with by our intellect. This means that he is not only imperceptible but also inconceivable. God being unknowable is a bit harder to grasp than God being constant and Im not sure if I can do that yet.