Eternality is a difficult concept to truly wrap one’s head
around. We are bound by time. We have a beginning, we travel along the course
of time, and we have an end, sort of. Biblically we are everlasting, we have a
beginning, but no end, but we are still bound by time. After Christ’s return
time will have less significance, but we will still travel through it.
But God is eternal. He had no beginning, has no end, and is
not bound by time. As time-locked beings, this is truly difficult to really
understand. We can grasp the concept, but we must continually remind ourselves
that it is beyond us. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have always
existed. Jesus was there in eternity with the Father. So, to ask when Jesus
came on the scene, I mean, He didn’t need a body before creation…and that’s
where we see our understanding of eternal break down. For Him, there was no
“before creation”. God wasn’t floating along through nothingness and decided to
come up with this idea of creation. There was no time for Him. As beings that
can only understand time, we often get confused by “no time”.
