But doesn't a non-temporal god have a problem in 'dealing' with temporal beings that have an arrow of time, and a cause-and-effect experience?
No, because time isn't moving for him.
It's like if you took each frame of
Casablanca and stacked them on top of each other. At any point in the stack you can see an instant of the movie, you can go back and forth, you can even examine several instants at once. You're under no pressure because the instants themselves aren't doing anything.
It
might be difficult for him to understand cause and effect, because to him the arrow of time is just an arbitrary way of looking at instants. But then again we assume God is pretty smart so I imagine he deals.
Their lifetime is so short, compared to mine, that I 'verge' on (but not quite) appear non-temporal to them.
Yeah, to them you're temporal but eternal.
That would make my playtoys very uninteresting to me at the very least.
It depends on what time is like. If there's only one future, then it's like looking at the stack of Casablanca stills - no matter what you do to the frame at the beginning of the movie, Bogart still doesn't get on that plane.
On the other hand, if
all possible futures exist, then it's like building the best possible Casablanca stack out of an enormous pile of possibilities. I guess that, to me, the creative potential could be pretty interesting.