Is God stuck in time? | Dr. Shane Wood

In this episode of Spiritually Incorrect, Dr. JD Lyonhart and Dr. Seth Hart sit down with Dr. Shane J. Wood, biblical scholar, author, and professor, to explore God, time, eternity, judgment, Revelation, and whether Christians have often imagined both heaven and God far too small. The conversation begins with JD’s new book, Zeus Was an Atheist: An Odd Retelling of the Moses Story, and quickly opens into a much larger theological question: what if time does not work the way we usually assume? What if Moses meeting God on the mountain and Jesus meeting Moses at the Transfiguration are not merely similar moments, but somehow overlapping moments in the life of God? Zeus was an Atheist, by JD Lyonhart: https://www.amazon.com/Zeus-Was-Athei... Together, we explore: • Why Zeus Was an Atheist uses fiction and speculation to rethink Moses, Pharaoh, the gods, and the meaning of “I Am” • Whether the Transfiguration reveals Jesus as the God whom Moses and Elijah encountered • Why “time travel or teleportation” may be the strange choice hidden inside some biblical stories • How Christ brings eternity and time together • Why Revelation refuses to treat time as simple, linear, and flat • How resurrection may change not only our bodies, but our relationship to space and time • Why heaven is not merely “more time,” but eternity breaking into time • How Dante, Aquinas, and classical theology imagined God as both infinite rest and infinite motion • Why prayer, mystical experience, and the “cloud of witnesses” may challenge modern assumptions about presence • What judgment might mean if God becomes fully present to every moment of our lives • How Christ can enter even the darkest memories, wounds, sins, and hidden places • Why redemption may work backward as well as forward We also wrestle with some of the hardest pastoral questions: If God is present to all times, where was God in our worst moments? What does it mean for Christ to be “in us” rather than merely beside us or for us? Can judgment be not merely punishment, but the painful and healing unveiling of every hidden thing before the love of God? This is a strange, beautiful, and deeply personal conversation about God, time, trauma, resurrection, judgment, and hope. Shane invites us to imagine redemption not as God abandoning the past and promising a better future, but as Christ becoming present to every fractured moment until even the darkest places are brought into the light. 🔔 Subscribe to get notified when more episodes drop:    / @jdlyonhart   🅿️ Join our Patreon for bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/c/user?u=8250... 🎵 Listen to this episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3UvI4XD... 🏠 Podcast Home Page: https://spirituallyincorrectpodcast.com ABOUT THE GUEST Dr. Shane J. Wood is a biblical scholar, author, and professor whose work focuses especially on the book of Revelation, the New Testament, suffering, judgment, and the presence of Christ. He is the author of several books, including Between Two Trees, and is known for bringing deep biblical scholarship into conversation with pastoral, imaginative, and existential questions. Chapters 00:00 Judgment, Time, and God’s Presence 00:23 Moses, Jesus, and the Transfiguration 00:46 Introduction to Shane J. Wood 01:54 JD’s New Book: Zeus Was an Atheist 03:19 Shane’s Response to the Book 04:47 Why Theology Needs Speculation 05:37 Moses, “I Am,” and the Gods 06:59 God, Time, and the Mountain 09:57 Seth’s Theory of the Transfiguration 16:22 Revelation, Apocalyptic Time, and Christ 18:53 Eternity and Time Meet in Jesus 21:11 Technology, Presence, and Our Longing for Eternity 23:32 Time, Fragmentation, and Omnipresence 24:34 Resurrection Bodies, Space, and Time 28:33 Christ in Us and the Mystery of Union 31:06 Transcendence, Immanence, and Pastoral Theology 32:30 The Spirit, Heaven, and the Goal of Creation 36:54 Dante, Hell, Motion, and Divine Life 41:58 Genesis, Sabbath, Creation, and Eternal Motion 45:11 The Cloud of Witnesses and Mystical Presence 50:09 Judgment, Trauma, and God’s Presence in Every Moment 54:13 Everything Hidden Brought to Light 55:49 Redemption Working Backward 57:15 Seeing Christ Throughout the Whole Story #Theology #Christianity #GodAndTime #Eternity #Transfiguration #Revelation #Judgment #Resurrection #ShaneJWood #SpirituallyIncorrect