Is God outside of time? (Part 3)

"This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time."
2 Timothy 1:9

This is a very interesting verse when you really think about it. 'Before the beginning of time' – before God had created anything, he knew us personally. He also knew the exact unfolding of Genesis 3, that man would sin and fall. He knew that we would need grace and that Jesus Christ would have to die on the cross. Yet he decided to created everything and everyone anyway. Incredible.

Thinking back to my previous posts on time, and the notion that God is not bound by it in any way, it leads to some very personal applications to Jesus' atonement of sin.

Could it be that he didn't die for our sin in a vague and general sense, but he was punished in a precise and exact amount? Did God see, in advance, every day of your life and the sum total of all your sin?

When we say "Jesus died for you" perhaps he really, really did.