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On a personal opinion, if God is the ultimate being all laws of physics are either generated and controlled by him/her or god is also subject to them. Kind of like a judge sets the laws and can make new ones but is not above it.
Also, regarding time and knowing all things I think it revolves around your belief in whether god has a plan or not. If the world is meant to end at day x and all people are to be judges as most christians believe, then you can be pretty sure that God knows the outcome as he has planned it from the start. Does it matter if Johnny is good or bad if God knows that ultimately everyone ends up being judged whilst the world is a boling mass?
Thus we come to another point. If he DOES know exactly who will do what, then bother make us? Back to the tricky philosophy of predestination.
The best solution I have been given for this is to consider a God to be the ultimate quantum computer.
If you consider that for an equation x+ 2 = z where X can have many values, a quantum computer can give you the answer to all the possible variants at once. We could say that with regard to the outcome of the equation, the computer is all knowing. It depends on the value of X.
With that in mind an ultimate God doesn't need to predestine humans to a particular role or fate, he/she/it just knows what any answer will be for the value of Johnny being Good or Evil.
With regard to Time, what does an eternal being consider of it?
I've heard a good comparison of this too.
Were we to consider Time to be music, then you and I would be listening to the orchestra and following along the score sheet, recognising it note for note. But a god would be like a master musician. They would be able to look at the first few notes and just know the most probable progression of the melody, rythm and mood of the piece.
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