Why is time necessary for consciousness for knowing?
The recognition of laws is possible only if we can separate them from one another. The limitation and focusing of perception make this possible.
The laws and the network of relationships between them can only be known if we are able to separate them from one another and interpret them individually. For this, it is necessary to limit the perception of reality in both time and space. The sequence of experiences, which is a timeline for consciousness, makes it possible for it to interpret individual laws.
By recognizing further laws appearing in further experiences, the network of relationships between the laws also becomes recognizable, because the successive recognitions make it possible to recognize the connections and effects upon one another between the laws as well.
The appearing reality is continuously changing, but the laws that determine reality do not change. On the sixth day, God completed the definition of the laws of the world and declared that He would not change them any further. The seventh day is existence, and for consciousness, of the world that exists, only the present moment is always perceptible; consciousness perceives the material world as a process in time.
Consciousness creates definitions based on its experiences, which describe what it experiences, but its definitions are not precise because its perception is limited. Its further experiences refine and make its definitions more precise, but they still cannot precisely describe what will happen in its next experiences, that is, in the future; therefore, the definitions it has created must always be further refined.
Time thus makes it possible to know God’s laws, but it also places limitations before us, because we can proceed only step by step; the present is the only point at which we can test our definitions.
Without time, consciousness would perceive the world as if every frame of a film were projected onto the screen at the same time. The superimposed images would not be interpretable for consciousness; intellect would see no connections, only a completely white screen on which it would not be able to distinguish anything from anything else.
Intellect would not be able to show the laws to consciousness in such a way that consciousness would be able to comprehend them. This is why time is so essential. Consciousness is also unlimited and timeless; moreover, according to the first verses of the Bible, its existence does not depend on the existence of the world either, but it is not able to perceive the laws, only their appearance, the material world. Through the perception of the material world, it infers the laws that determine the world, and through its experiences it is able to recognize them.
Time is therefore of fundamental importance in the process of knowing, so that knowing can become a process, while experiences can be separated from one another and appear in the proper sequence.