Remember, the bible was interpreted by man, so thats how we described it. And the whole looking at the past thing you're talking about, its how memories work, we remember bits and pieces of our lives, the things that we hold dear to our hearts, what did you eat for dinner 334 days ago? nothing. you have 0 idea what your drink was even. if our memories remembered everything we could not live for a very long time before our brains were overloaded with useless crap and we'd be a flesh bag without a conscience anymore