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I think that if all is one, an idea that I personally cannot refute, then the traditional definition of time must in some way be altered. To dismiss time as meaningless, however, is to retreat from monism (i.e. by stating that propositions can be divided into "meaningful" and "meaningless" ones). I suggest, then, that time and being are the same thing. Imagine a vertical line, then imagine a horizontal line. Now picture them intersected in a plus sign (+). One could say that time elapsed as one thought of this, but it could also be stated that being unfolded, since all of the ideas contained within a plus sign are contained within its every part. Indeed, it can be stated that the plus sign exists within each zero-dimensional section of itself. In the same way, eternity exists in each moment. To put it in overly simplistic terms, we have all "already" experienced eternity. I think I am borrowing heavily from Kant here.
As for God, each idea unfolds infinitely into an infinite idea, much as a 0-dimensional point contains within it all of the ideas of infinite space. One is left with something that is one and all-inclusive. This means that God (again, I'm oversimplifying) includes human qualities but is not limited to them. What I'm really stating, I think, is some combination of the ideas of Kant and Hegel (correct me if I'm wrong).
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