Interesting thread - I'll share some of my thoughts:
1.) "If the sins we commit now go BACK to be absorbed by Christ, can our prayers also permeate TIME..."
I can't see any reason, from scripture, to believer our sins move backward through time.
I'm not aware of any sins that move backward through time - and if we examine scripture, we don't actually see anything, of any kind, moving backward through time.
Conclusion:
We always need to be carefully articulating the odd topic of time; it's so strange and confusing that it's hard to even use the right words to talk about it. But what about God's relationship to time? Well, for God to simply "know" the future, or "affect" the future, does not require any alteration of the space-time continuum.
a.) To "know" the future only requires God's attribute of omniscience.
b.) And as far as "affecting" the future, it is quite normal for even ordinary humans to "affect" the future, because EVERYONE in the past has affected the future.
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2.) "If the sins we commit now go BACK to be absorbed by Christ, can our PRAYERS also permeate TIME..."
You are basing a 2nd point, an additional point, upon the first point... but the first point was unproven, and we really have no reason to believe it to be true.
We can never base a new point on a previous point, when the previous point was never proven.
We have no evidence of sins moving backward through time.
Conclusion:
We have no example in scripture of either sins or prayers moving backward through time - we have no evidence in scripture of anything whatsoever moving backward through time.
3.) "Seeing that God is outside of time"
You state this as if it's a known fact that supports your previous suppositions... but it isn't a known fact at all.
There is no place in scripture that states God is "outside" of time.
Whenever God speaks in scripture, he always uses temporal expressions, expressions of before and after, as if he is "within time." And there is no place in scripture where God speaks as if he is outside of time.
Conclusion:
This whole issue of God's relationship to temporality is very speculative, and very controversial, and we don't really know much about it... but it is interesting that God NEVER speaks, on any subject, as if he is outside of time.
Just sharing some thoughts.
Interesting thread.
You guys have a great week.
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