He already did, and He already revealed to John (in the book of Revelation) how he did. Time as we understand it is an artifact of our fallen world, we cannot even reason about time without death. We have no idea what a “deathless time” would even look like, but we will. Almost all of the church fathers delved deeply into this topic, and unfortunately our modern view tends to ignore this and just presuppose a Newtonian and mechanistic view of time (which can be falsified even under its own system).

God is not operating in time. He is the author of time. Time, reason, and all transcendent categories are parts of creation, they are not God’s essence, they are how He allows us to make sense of creation — and the life of Christ is how He revealed who God truly is. This is what it means to be the Alpha and the Omega, and that all things were made through Him (the incarnate Christ). There’s a beautiful tradition here that made this explicit, but unfortunately lost in the modern west. What did God do after his ascension? He created the world. This is why church fathers denied a “pre-incarnate” Christ, pointing out that the incarnate Christ is eternal and outside of time — that Moses and even Adam and Eve in the garden, Enoch, all were with Christ. This is what John 1 makes clear.

Nefarious is an excellent movie. The fallen angels are also granted free will, but have no means of salvation — the rebellious spirits (the principalities and powers we struggle with) are still completely subject to God’s sovereignty. Their reaction to Christ in the gospels makes this clear. But also the “lying spirit” that God allowed to deceive Ahab is another example.

Evil is clearly not a vital force. It is the absence of good. This isn’t just an orthodox perspective. This is well understood even across schismatic lines — God is not responsible for sin or evil, man is. And simultaneously God, and only God, is responsible for all that is good, beautiful, and true. Our modern and overly rationalistic worldview has a difficult time with this, but this isn’t a new topic and these arguments are as old as Christianity.

Fwiw I understand where you’re coming from (having said many of these same things), but this is contrary to the Bible. The reformers (including Calvin, and even Zwingli) rejected this, as did all church fathers. The only support you’ll find for this is in the gnostic heretics that also denied Christ’s divinity. It’s part of a larger free will debate. And I highly recommend going down that rabbit hole as ultimately it brings one closer to Christ. This debate was also one of the main differences between the Pharisees and the Essenes and the Sadducees … it’s not a topic solved within man’s rationality, but can only be solved by the dual nature of Christ (as both God and man).

God is not subject to time. He is not operating in time. This view of God is very much not the God of the Bible. While it makes sense in transcendent categories (God’s omniscience), that is not what Christ said at any point in His ministry. Nor what He said to Moses or any of the prophets. God has granted us free will, and it transcends rationality— the solution to the free will debates (like all of these kind of theological debates) are resolved in the life and person of Christ, who is 100% God and 100% man, and our free will is God-given and good (existing prior to the fall), but time as we understand is not (because time in our world is inseparable from death)

God is explicitly not the author of evil. Evil is not a thing per se, not part of the creation that He saw and proclaimed to be “very good”. Augustine and other church fathers explained evil as the privation or absence of good, that evil has no being — similar to how darkness is the absence of light. If you imagine evil has a substance or being you end up in gnostic heresies. What we call evil has no power or being, hence it cannot create but only corrupt or destroy that which is good. This is also why God is 100% responsible for all that is good, including our redemption. And that man is 100% responsible for sin and the evil of turning away from God. This is true in reformed and orthodox theology. The goodness of God is such that He can bring good out of evil, but this is like a light shining in the dark, not to be confused with God authoring evil, only fallen man is responsible for evil.

We are not the judge of whether he repents, that’s between him and God. We forgive even the unrepentant because we humble ourselves to God and obey His perfect justice. Our civil authorities must enact justice — even if — the killer publicly repents, again out of humility and obedience to God.

It’s a very good question. Only God can truly forgive sins, as only He has perfect justice and knows every heart. And only God can judge repentance. Hence every man alive should fear the final judgment ("I never knew you; depart from me" — may we never hear those words) Human forgiveness is to be humble to God. We are to “forgive” even unrepentant sinners from our heart (exactly as Erika did) as it removes our judgement, cleanses our heart by the grace of God (to not hold it “on our ledger” as she worded it). Otherwise, us holding back forgiveness waiting for repentance is to judge repentance ourselves, making ourselves into God. fwiw, by this same humility, the civil authorities are required to enact worldly justice by the authority God has granted them. This means even if the killer repents very publicly and very sincerely, he is still to receive the punishment due (likely capital punishment) — and again for the same reasons that only God can truly judge repentance, and only God can truly forgive us our sins. The thief on the cross is instructive here. He is granted forgiveness before his death, which by his own admission/confession he rightfully deserved.

Even the demons believe. It’s faithfulness to Him, humble repentance, that saves — he’s offering it to everyone. We are to hate evil with perfect hatred. We are not to make peace or even tolerate evil.