My favorite take on the Christian god is from Eriugena. The general premise is that time is a feature of creation, therefor god is without time. But, being with

My favorite take on the Christian god is from Eriugena. The general premise is that time is a feature of creation, therefor god is without time. But, being without time, god is unable to change. In order to "grow" god "descended" into a lower state of being by creating the universe. The universe has time, and therefore can change. God's growth comes from the change in the universe folding back into god through the knowledge acquired by man as man ascends into a higher state of being at death. Given that take - there is no distinction between the universe being billions of years old and the universe having been "fast forwarded" to 2000BC. This is being perceived by an entity that sits outside the passage of time. Everything is arguably "fast forwarded" in that the entirety of creation - along with everything before and after creation - is being experienced simultaneously by a timeless being.