Also, I'm sure it will be difficult to understand this concept, so I don't expect much, but if your a thinker, you might like this one.
If time didn't exist how to we see growth?
You can argue that many souls never fully lose the concept of time because we "know" it so well, but in order to experience time, we had to agree it existed, right?
Well, when I return, what will have changed and what will I remember, and will I remember?
2006-09-17 13:08:36 · 15 answers · asked by Corey 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Time is change, If there is no time then you're talking about a fixed state. No movement, no thoughts etc..
Of course i don't believe there is such thing as an afterlife, but i am sure the theist would answer that there is a whole new perception of what is time in heaven.
2006-09-17 13:15:49 · answer #1 · answered by AiW 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is a physically quanitified measurement. Paradise is beyond physical constraints. Our spirits will be formed into the shape we are supposed to have, there is evidence to support that we will have some control over that shape. Since heaven is beyond the realm of physical and tangible expression there is no growth, no aging, no death. The march of time is not an important thing to consider because nothing changes with age.
Imagine perennial existance without restriction. You could, for example, study the entire history of the universe in detail and not have to rush because eternity lays before you without end and without physical needs such as sleep.
There is a book entitled "Mysteries of the Soul Expounded" which goes into a lot of this sort of thing.
2006-09-17 13:15:01 · answer #2 · answered by Hajj Saifullah 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no measure of experience other than in space and time. When in "no time", the only way to realize one has had the experience of "no time" is to have the experience of time again.
Time is a measurement that we experience kinesthetically, but the only way to know this is to be outside of the experience of time. When people are deeply concentraited on something, there is often an experience of the collapsing of the sense of time. ("Three hours went by as if it was a few moments.") Often in movie theatres as the movie is rolling, the sense of time is forgotten.
Space is collapsed in every telephone call, in every IM conversation, in evert premonition - the lines between your universe and mine are blurred and moved.
If we experience such moments on this little ball rolling in space, subject to gravity and other natural laws, I suspect that when we are freed from this physical realm, no time and no space experience will be the norm.
How do we measure? Will we measure? If you get there before I do, write me a note and leave it on my physical desk in my physical home and we will start a religion! (Just kidding, I have the highest respect for all spiritual paths.)
peace and belly laughter,
2006-09-17 14:25:00 · answer #3 · answered by Sambhavi 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Space and time are a creation for souls to grow and learn, with out them death would be very hard concept to grasp. As not returning to God and being cast out with the devil is compared to death. In order for us to grasp the concept of death we had to lose our memory of pre earth life where time is not a factor and death is not a reality. We are then subjected to birth to learn of creation and death to learn of separation from those we love. We are also tested and tried by giving us our freedom to choose between right and wrong. Some of our actions then have direct results and others are postponed consequences. All in all a very complex plan wouldn't you say
2006-09-17 13:25:54 · answer #4 · answered by saintrose 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two questions:
1) Who says Heaven exists beyond space/time?
2) Why would you need space/time to measure experience?
2006-09-17 13:21:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time is measured only for the expediency of us mortals. When one reads "A moment is as 1,000 years". This passage should even satisfy the most stringent scientist, as to the creation of the universe. Yet that is found in the Bible. It should even satisfy your inquisitive mind, relative to time.
2006-09-17 13:15:34 · answer #6 · answered by mrcricket1932 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time and Space ARE measurements, my friend.
Because heaven exists beyond space and time,
we shall not MEASURE experiences.
We shall merely experience.
2006-09-17 13:16:16 · answer #7 · answered by Bob L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
compare everything mankind has done or attained in its lifetime to God.
It is a pebble in the sand to the beach to Him.
Time "exists" because we created it. Time will no longer matter after your destination after death is secure.
It will be eternal.
2006-09-17 13:11:58 · answer #8 · answered by n9wff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I'm not answering your question...I just wanted to compliment you on your avatar photo. That's one of my favorite movies in the whole wide world!!!
The Never-Ending Story...
I thought I was the only one that still likes it!
2006-09-17 13:10:35 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'time' is a uman concept - a label we have given to somehing we have not begun to understand.
If humans did not exist to give 'time' its label, would it still exist? And if so, how?
2006-09-17 13:16:24 · answer #10 · answered by warden14 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋