Does time truly exist or is it an illusion of the mind?

Question

life is a miracle from God, but i c people grow old and then I ask myself why aren't we living forever?

Answer 1

The Bible informs us that time is a dimension that God created, into which man was subjected. It even tells us that one day time will no longer exist. That will be called "eternity." God Himself dwells outside of the dimension He created (2 Timothy 1:9, Titus 1:2). He dwells in eternity and is not subject to time. God spoke history before it came into being. He can move through time as a man flips through a history book.

Because we live in the dimension of time, logic and reason demand that everything must have a beginning and an end. We can understand the concept of God’s eternal nature the same way we understand the concept of space having no beginning and end—by faith. We simply have to believe they are so, even though such thoughts put a strain on our distinctly insufficient cerebrums.

Answer 2

Why don't we live forever? Simple, it's the only way for us to survive. Confusing, I know, but let me explain. If we reproduce, we have to die, because otherwise we overpopulate, use up all the resources and well... starve en masse. If we don't reproduce we could live forever and be fine, sure, but then our species would have never grown beyond one individual, and eventually a tree would fall on them or something and *poof* end of the species. Dying is the only way to really live. As a species, that is.

As for the time thing, yes, it exists, but how we perceive it is malleable. We've broken it up into... well really kind of arbitrary bits. I mean look at the definition of a second:

"The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. This definition refers to a caesium atom at rest at a temperature of 0 K.

It approximates the beat or half period (one swing, not back and forth) of a pendulum one metre in length."

Who freaking cares? What does that have to do with anything? It's measurement, that's all. Time does march on, but not at any "speed". Time is confusing because we can't really wrap our brains around the way it "moves", which it doesn't at all, of course, that's just the closest metaphor we can think of, which really probably isn't close at all.

Answer 3

Yes time exist........ what did you do last week? hmmmmm well if there is no time then there was no last week!!! If it where an illusion then we would live in all times and could change things that did not go right. If time where an illusion we would live forever in this life and not the next. Time exist!!!!

Answer 4

We do live forever as souls in the spiritual dimension. This physical incarnation is but a temporal illusion. When it ends we will return to our true lives there in the spiritual dimension. We are here for the evolution of our souls.

Time does not exist, it is an illusion. It is simply a tool of measurement for us to use in this world of relativity. Time is simply a man-made concept.

Answer 5

We lost life immortal in the flesh due to original sin... from the Christian Faith pov

We stll posess our immortal souls and will live for ever in another form after the mortal body wears out. There are two choises where to spend eterninty... it is up to you to choose

Yes Time is real... It was put in place by God to regulate His Creation. As we are bound by all the laws of science God has put in place in this universe.

Answer 6

Life is a miracle from nature. We don't live forever for the sme reason that the trees, plants, animals, and everything else around us don't and can't live forever

Answer 7

Time exists here on earth in this life, after the body dies the soul lives on forever in heaven or hell.

Answer 8

It would depend upon the dimension one is observing from ...

To a consciousness immersed in our three dimensional timeline... time is existing because of varied causalities that are operant

Yet ... from a fourth dimensional vanishing point ..."time is not" ...as the entirety of our serial timeline can be seen as a "spatially distended continuum" ...

There are fifth and sixth dimensional perspectives (and beyond) that likewise have this same relation to lower dimensionalities ...

Answer 9

if we lived forever the world would become way over populated. Or like we would become really bored with life,
and Im pretty sure time exists, *looks at clock* yep....
and by seeing as how my nephew grows so fast over time,
ya
Dont hurt your brain now :)

Answer 10

Time exists. It can be measured by things without minds. Chemical reactions know about time. They take the same amount of time all the time (in normal circumstances). We only gave this change in the world around us a name. It existed before us, and it will exist after us. There was a time before us, even on the religious level. Since you capitalize God, I assume you know the judeo-christian creation story. God spoke to himself before the world was around or created, even before the universe existed. For him to speak there would need to be time, else his words would have no order. In the religious sense, as long as there is God, there is time.