We were able to be forgiven only after the sacrifice was actualized in time. If God s knowledge of our future makes our present unnecessary, or the mere acting out of a script, then we would have to conclude that Jesus death was not necessary. God should have just forgiven us based upon the thought of Jesus being slain. The fact that Jesus had to come and die in time gives precedence to the fact that the actuation of events in time is necessary for the foreknown events to be considered real to God. Conclusion Time is a creation by God which is necessary for the existence of the created reality.
Present time is the only time that truly exists.
The past and present are only perspectives of time from the mind of the knower. Though the past is real in that it did happen, and the future will be real in that it will happen, the only time that exists is the present. This understanding of time leads us to believe that eternity will not be timelessness, but will be never-ending time. It also leads us to believe that the outworkings of our lives are of the utmost importance to God, and that His foreknowledge of the future does not make human action meaningless or unnecessary. At times God intervenes in His creation to bring His will to pass, irregardless of man's will.