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Why? What do you think "sovereign" means? Isn't it possible that the Holy Spirit or the Father revealed these things to Jesus? If so, then they can't be used to say He is omniscient without admitting that we are omniscient, too, since the Father and the Holy Spirit also reveal things to us...

Sure, that would be nice. But doctors who don't require you to get a second opinion are still called "doctor", aren't they?

I don't see how it is a parallel. Mechanical engineering is intimately related to pressures of water in tightly closed containers, don't you think?

So, you are making a particular point about the term doctor, in an attempt to express your feeling that Brown's expertise is in some other field than the one he is writing in, and you don't think that's "disparaging?" One of us needs to go look up the word again, apparently.

I can say. Because it is worse than immaterial. Brown's degree is directly related.

I'm having the same problem as @DFT_Dave, I think. Time is more than an idea, just as space is more than an idea. Both of these ideas are used to describe things that are also ideas, but have concreteness, such as progression. If I walk, I progress through space. As I live and get older, I...

Seems your "Mr." Post was distracting.

And a different definition of "sovereignty".

He lasted longer than I thought he would.

Sequence actually implies/is a time-keeping device, or "clock". Clocks manufacture sequences of similar duration. They aren't time, but they are sequences, which is how you and @Right Divider are defining time. Question: Assuming it's possible for God to do nothing at any point in His existence...

That's where my mind went first, whack the switchman. But the girl's solution is morbidly funny.

I guess I missed the concession. All timekeeping devices use energy in a precise fashion, though to different degrees. The used up energy must be renewed for the timepiece to do its job. The hourglass comparison is easier to see than the hyper-fine energy levels in an atomic clock, but it's the...

I don't know. Maybe time doesn't matter in God's domain, though I think you've argued against such before. Most longer times in the bible are marked with a beginning point and a duration, like "in the twelfth year of the reign of King Joe...", or "from the time of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem...

So He can know whether a day is like a thousand years and vice versa.

And God doesn't have a way to measure time?

How do you know?

But the way the atoms are moved to a higher energy state is by human intervention, which is a recognizable anti-entropic force, just like God is. And after they are pushed (pumped) to the higher energy, they regularly fall to the lower energy state, pretty much like an hourglass being inverted...

Maybe

Why? God's word is indeed.

Sure. But if your intent is to disparage other translations, while you admit to using them, it's more of a seed of contention, which I don't see as edifying. Paul tells Timothy not to do that. 2 Timothy 2:23 KJV — But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.