Many people can conceive of time having no end, but can you conceive of it having no beginning. Afterall, either "god" or time is pre-eternal. Correct?
2006-07-05 09:57:30 · 9 answers · asked by rlw 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
INCORRECT. Time will have an end, and it does have a beginning- it is neither pre-eternal nor eternal.
Time has a beginning; this is belief is supported by both those of religion and atheists. And what has a beginning must have an end.
According to the Big Bang, time was one of the four forces (time, space, energy, and matter) created in the enormous explosion which birthed the universe. Let's not get into any more detail on that other than that means that time has a beginning.
According to the Christian belief, time was created in Genesis 1:3 with the creation of light. Under this belief, is light that governs time. It is interesting how accurate this is, for in physics, you will find that as an object reaches the speed of light, time slows down and can even be surpassed. I will not go into any further detail on this either.
Lastly, anything that can be measured must have a beginning and an end. The infinite cannot be measured, but the finite can- and for something to be finite it must have a beginning and an end. Time can be measured. Time is finite. Time has a beginning; it is not pre-eternal. Time also will have an end, although we cannot see how close or far away that is.
Based on this God would have to be pre-eternal. He is infinite and cannot be measured or comprehended by our finite minds. The Bible says God is light, and if this is true, His eternality and timelessness makes sense. If He is light, then He surpasses time and governs time.
2006-07-05 10:08:26 · answer #1 · answered by Just Wondering 777 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your idea of time is not correct. You view time as a entity which exists on its own, this is wrong. For ex. if the earth was not spining would we have a 24 hour day, obviously not. So what then is time? Time is merely the measurement of change. When we say the day is 24 hrs long what we are really saying is that it takes the earth 24 to make the change between night and day. Aristotle held that every verb is essentially time. That is to say in the sentence " bob is screaming", is and screaming are verbs. Proir to the action of bob we must have bob, so bob is, bob exists, when does bob exist, bob exists now or bob is. Meaning before there was no bob, now bob is, an example of change. or we can say BOb was, bob used to exist now he doesnt, another example of how time is change. Further, Bob is screaming, bob wasnt screaming before, now he is screaming, again another change!
So the question you are really asking does physicallity ( which is by definiton subject to change) have a beginning, the ans. is yes, somethign cant come from nothing. The question of how does time operate, that is a seperate phenomina
2006-07-06 00:16:20 · answer #2 · answered by mordy0 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I cant really picture time having a begining nor an end. Time is simply a contruct to measure.... itself. We cant really say if there is a begining or an end because as a race, as a universe, we have experienced neither. Nobody from the "begining" is alive and nobody from the "end" exists and therefore the question is really flawed my our very finite existance.
I guess the answer is, we'll never EVER know.
2006-07-05 17:03:58 · answer #3 · answered by Piraga 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, if God exists and his word is truth, then he lives outside of time. The universe was created with the time element added to move these bodies to our exit from this existence. Then we step in to eternity and timelessness. Meaning events progress but there is no age...no end. And thus no beginning.
2006-07-05 19:01:18 · answer #4 · answered by RM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats like saying there is no number zero all the numbers start at zero.
There was nothing at the beganing of time. The CON theroy which states that everything that we have in the world can be calulated by numbers(if you think about there is an infinty of numbers after 0 as such as there is an infinty of objects)
if you compare the start of the universe you will see that zero started the infinty! Thourgh the Con theroy!which i have no time to type contace me if you want to realy know what it is
2006-07-05 17:19:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can time possibly be pre-eternal? If time is a measurement of the age of creation, or at least, in human reference point (presuming a difference then, between relative time and absolute time), how could it pre-date creation?
--j.
2006-07-05 17:02:12 · answer #6 · answered by classical123 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time does not exists; its only an accident or phenomena of reality... You can just speak about time as a measure of certain events in your reality but is a concecuence of perception...
Even if you see "time" as a substance (i mean that it exists in itself) you can say time extends to infinity; ergo you can think also about an extention in the other directon, in other words as long as infinity to the past....
2006-07-05 17:32:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
". . . either god or time is pre-eternal."
Now there's a new concept: pre-eternity. And, to keep it company, why not have a post-eternity?
2006-07-05 17:03:23 · answer #8 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not both related
2006-07-12 13:45:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋