God doesn't experience animate objects or universal constants or time itself. God looks at time as it never existed, that is at a standstill. What God experiences is himself.
To some people, this may be absurd. But please consider this......
Within God exists three personalities that are coeternal and coequal and his eternal love is expressed through his Son who he brought into his creation before the first bit of matter appeared and before time existed.
What God experiences is through the interactions of his Son. Scripture declares that God was pierced and that they did to him all those things that they did to the Son. The experiences of God are therefore tangible experiences of his being within his own creation as the Emmanuel.
Off course everything that God said he has done have been through experiences of the Son. It therefore follows that God is timeless and he logs all his experiences and tangible interactions that surpass time and space. That is why many authors would write......
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." (Jeremiah 1:5)
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love (Ephesians 1:4)
God therefore considers time as a stand still from the point of.......
God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not. (Romans 4:17)
It seems that God has created a time loop, in much the same way one turns the cog on a toy that turns around in a pre-determined fashion. So God doesn't pay attention to time, but what he EXPECTS to experience in that timeless moment. 1000 years to God is still living in that moment and to him we existed then as we exist today in the flesh.
How this interprets according to our human knowledge is that God experiences us without consideration to time or matter. So the question is why create soul beings in his own image?
The concept of pleasure coupled with pain becomes the algorithm and that is why women have labor pains through the creation of another human being and God compares his enduring pain for humanity as labor pains.
This, believe it or not tells us alot about our creator. That is our God has created a model of pain with pleasure. Even the Christian way of life is not without its pains before the joys of blessings. We therefore can only equate this phenomenon to an infinite being who places himself at the centre of what started it all and in doing so must be certain of what he requires and therefore may know what unfolds regardless of time and space. God will get his experiences with man and his eternal enduring qualities to pain is why he is Love. Love begets love. So the epic love story within the one being between the Father and the Son is what initiated the Genesis account, where it was declared LET US CREATE MAN IN OUR OWN IMAGE. This would allow God to experience man as if he was a man. So God became man for those faithful 33 years during the time of Jesus of Nazareth and the persona of the Son allowed God to interact with man and to lead us from time to eternity to the Father of time.
That is why Jesus would say.......
3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am,
there ye may be also.
4And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
The Way, the Truth, and the Life
5Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. (John 14:2-7)
We see an open invitation from the Son to heaven. God created time and space for humanity as a journey for we are cosmic travelers who will travel from time and space to eternity to be with our Lord and so time and space was really created for us so that the Son can come and show us the way to the Father.
So the entire history of humanity was already written by the author who is our creator. God would have been well aware of what he wrote and how it plays out. That is why books are mentioned in Revelation of John, for these books were written before the inception of time and space and Jesus would say.....
Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
In the flood story God said......
6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart
Notice God was sorry that he made man to achieve what he expected because of the expected losses of his harvest. He grieving at his heart is to say that he didn't take it lightly in the same way a farmer plants crops and the yield from the harvest is all but destroyed. So God made himself accountable in the same way a farmer would make himself accountable for loss of seasonal crops.
It therefore follows that God already has taken into account losses and through the process of pain before the joy has declared....
Many are called but yet few chosen
We therefore conclude that the author of the book of life knew all along what would unfold and that time and space was really for our benefit in order to find the way and complete our travels from time to timeless eternity. We are being invited to the timeless nexus of God.
God is all knowing and we ought to hope that we are written in the book of life. If we are not then there is really nothing we can do. In this replayed movie called life what is destined to happen will happen and there is nothing we can do to change it. Our characters are already destined in God's script. If those who perished in Noah's flood were none the wiser, then their destiny was already scripted.