Sorry, I don't get the relationship between God and Time. You may want to develop that idea.
It is more developed, but one has to start the conversation somewhere. The opening sentence is more a title or an abstract than the whole thing. I've written a short essay as well as a full length paper on the idea. I could share them, but I didn't want to bore people. They're more to make sure I've got my own thoughts straight than anything else.
I appreciate you indulging me. Hopefully it will be an enjoyable conversation.
One little preamble. I used the word "maybe" for a reason. As a trivial example, God has never revealed whether he prefers the color green to that of brown. So, we don't know his preference. However, in some cases, unbelievers insist that "I don't know," is not an acceptable answer. With respect to a claim of God's perfect knowledge vs. our free will, some unbelievers would claim the apparent conflict must be answered - that "I don't know" is not acceptable. I think my idea can answer some of these difficulties. Only one solution to a problem is needed to show that the problem can be dismissed. That does not mean only one solution exists. So, while I think my idea solves some of these problems, it may not be the only solution ... it may not be the true solution because, IMO, God simply doesn't speak to some of these questions and so we don't know. At the same time, I don't want to leave the impression that I've dismissed these problems without giving them some thought.
And are you suggesting that God is some purely natural entity or aspect of entities?
No. I use the phrase "maybe God is time" in the same way that the Bible says "God is love." It does not mean God is merely love - that he is only love. It means that by his nature he is the perfect expression of love. So, I am saying God fully embodies time and we do not - quite a different position from those who say God is outside time and created it.
Ok, then why not keep calling it "time", for simplicity´s sake?
I appreciate all the replies, but many of them were similar and so my answer to them would be similar. That is understandable. I was brief on purpose. Hopefully we can fill out the idea as the conversation moves along.
Anyway, as I said above, I do not mean God is only time, but that he possesses the full embodiment of time. One question that comes up in the philosophy of time is whether time is continuous or discrete. Recently I read a paper that gave me a new perspective on Zeno's paradoxes (Achilles & the tortise, etc.) as well as how God might possibly relate to time differently than we do.
Useful in regards to which purpose?
It is useful for answering questions such as how God's perfect knowledge can admit our free will. Others have tried to answer that in other ways: the eternalism of Stump & Kretzmann, compatibilism, Molinism, open theism, etc. I agree with unbelievers that those answers have problems, but I hope I've got an answer. Just to be fully open, the position I'm taking is very similar to Padgett's "relative timelessness," so I don't claim this sprang fully formed from my own mind, but I have tweaked it a bit.