One of the concepts which theologians of the past simply could not grasp was the timeless nature of eternity, that is, that eternity exists outside of the flow time which we experience. For them, eternity always meant "always" or "forever" within some kind of flow of time even if it wasn't that which we experienced within our own existence. The reason for this is because the human brain is simply not capable of visualizing something outside of three dimensions of space and one of time. And so this human inability to conceptualize a timeless existence has led to many misconceptions.
Time is simply another vector of motion like width, depth, and height within a multidimensional universe, and the greater multidimensional, potentially infinite multiverse. According to modern theoretical physics, our reality must exist in at least eleven dimensions, only four of which we experience directly. These dimensions, like the aforementioned four, are also merely vectors of motion as all of creation remains in motion since the beginning.
Nothing can move faster than light (except perhaps theoretical tachyons, but that's a subject for another discussion), and the speed of light is constant (300,000 kps) and unyielding. This is a well established scientific fact. Another point about light is that an object travelling at the speed of light travels instantaneously from its own point of view, and is therefore at all points in space and time simultaneously. But why is this? Perhaps it is because we are looking at it from the wrong point of view just as we once looked at the sun as revolving around the Earth instead of the Earth revolving around the sun. Perhaps relative to the creation, light itself is absolutely at rest, and everything else is in motion through it, including time. That is, it is the nature of light to be timeless, that is, eternal, and to exist outside of time and space.
In some ways, this shouldn't be a surprise, as light is a form or manifestation of energy, and energy itself must be infinite, omnipresent in space and time, and eternal (cannot be created or destroyed, and therefore has no beginning and no end) in an infinite multiverse. This is something which is hinted at in the existence of what's called zero-point energy. That is, it is impossible to completely remove all energy from an object or space (usually in the form of heat), because even at the "zero point" Kelvin, particles are seen popping into and out of existence from the background energy upon which creation rests. Light is at absolute rest relative to the rest of creation because the Source of energy itself is at absolute rest relative to the motion of time, space, and all possible dimensional vectors along which the base components or coding of our existence, the frequencies, amplitudes, and spins which form the base sub-atomic particles and bosons, move.
That Source of energy itself, eternal existing outside of the time and space which move through Him, infinite, omnipresent, immutable, unmovable, and by His very nature of Being, omnipotent and omniscient, is something, someone whom no theologian in time past, and few in time present, could conceive of or conceptualize. All moments to Him are "right now" as He is equally present in every moment at every point in space since time began through to when space and time cease to be. There is no word in any human language which can actually describe His relationship to time as "timeless" simply doesn't do it justice, and "eternal" in English is misleading.
And this is the Being whom Jesus Christ called His Father, sacrificing His own self-identity so that the Person whom His Father is could be seen shining radiantly through His own human born Person. "If you have seen Me you have seen the Father." And that Person, that Personality whom Jesus Christ displayed was Love incarnate, pure and unadulterated by attachment, jealousy, or fear. And it is this Person, this Personality through Jesus Christ for whom we are to sacrifice our own self-identities so that, through manifesting Jesus Christ, we also manifest His Father. "The one who has the Son has the Father also." So that we too may be incarnations of a sort of God Himself like Jesus was and remains, so that we too might be the Logos become flesh for a time, camping out in a tent within the world.
There is nowhere one can go where the Father is not. There is no time, no place, no dimensional vector of travel one can run to or along which does not exist within or travel through Him. To Him, all times and all places are right here and right now. Every point along our common timestream is an open book with every page displayed at once, every frame of the film frozen and fully visible. From eternity, there is no such thing as the experience of time passing except to see each page or frame displayed equally. One might enter any point in our timestream equally whether or not it is considered our past or future.
And that Being's very Person is Love, and the most important things to Him are Love, Kindness, Mercy, Compassion, Joy, Trust, and that we know Him and get to know Him.
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