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No it's not proof, but that's why it's called faith. What helped calm my searching, is accepting that answers regarding God will always outnumber my questions regarding God. Yes, look for answers, but keep your mind open and accept there will continue to be unknown.

Ok, going on a tangent, read and come along if you'd like.

The currently most accepted physics theory regarding the creation of our universe is the big bang. Within this theory it summarizes that prior to the big bang time itself did not exist. So some theorists (including hawking) have said there was no time for God to exist prior to the Big bang, so therefore God does not exist. I see this oppositely that only a God could surpass a void of space and time to begin time, the universe, our world and humanity and more with one Big bang.

Bible verses elated to time:

Psalms 90:4 says, "For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night."
Psalm 90: A thousand years are to God but the blink of an eye, and we are like grass that blossoms in the morning and withers the same day, cut down and brittle by evening.
Genesis 1:1-2:4 the creation verses: There are seven periods of creation recorded in the beginning of Genesis. Although each of these has been translated as a “day”, the Hebrew word is “yom” which simply means a period of time with a beginning and an ending. It is unlikely to be a solar day since the sun, moon and stars do not appear until the fourth “day”.
2 Peter 3:8 says, "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."

So it seems fairly certain that God is not limited in time the way we are.

So how do you relate time to God?

The Two Definitions of Time
We can mean two different things when we talk about time. Clock time for example, means it is Monday June 3rd and 9:00 am (Greenwich Mean Time). If you add 60 minutes, it is then 10:00 am. It has always been assumed that clock time is absolute time; that is, everywhere in creation seconds always take one second to pass, and it is the same time (in Greenwich Mean Time) everywhere. Relativity has shattered that view, and this view has been proven wrong in physical experiments. In 1969, two highly accurate atomic clocks were calibrated in Washington, D.C. One was then put on a fighter airplane and flown around the world at a high speed. When it returned, the elapsed time according to the clock on the jet plane was a fraction of a second less than the elapsed time as measured by the clock on the ground. This same effect has also been seen in experiments on subatomic particles. Let’s now leave the world of relativity, but just remember one type of time is clock time.
A second type of time is sequence time. The next time, the last time, the first, second, third, etc. all express sequence time. In our experience on this planet, the order that something actually happens in clock time is always the same order it happens in sequence time. We would need a time machine to break this rule. However, the order that we plan things in sequence is opposite of how it will happen in clock time with what is called "backward inferencing." For example, if the project is due Friday, I should type the final copy Thursday night, the rough copy on Wednesday, and I should start researching the topic on Monday.
Does God use both forward and backward inferencing like we do? Is He limited to thinking the way we do? A verse that at least addresses this question is Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

So Is God Limited in Time Like We Are?
According to Minkowski, Einstein’s professor, we live in a four dimensional universe, where the fourth dimension is time. Time differs from the other three dimensions, however, in that (relativity aside) we all move through time together at the same speed.
Is God restricted in time like we are? Is it impossible for God not only to slow elapsed time by high speed, but to experience time in ways unknown to us? Psalms 90:4 says, "For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night." 2 Peter 3:8 says, "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." So it seems fairly certain that God is not limited in time the way we are.

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