2006-12-23 22:24:40 · 16 answers · asked by m_homayoun 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You can't. Time is a human concept and God is timeless.
2006-12-23 22:29:15 · answer #1 · answered by aali_and_harith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is a myth. The definition of god is vague. So trying to define time in terms of a god is meaningless.
2006-12-24 06:30:27 · answer #2 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is a convenience created by God to benefit man. We need time to reckon things, since we are mortal -- that is, our lives in this human body have a beginning, middle and ending. If there is a God, then God is all-transcendent, and cannot create anything which binds God to be less God than God really is.
That's why the Hindu Vedic Verses imply that God is 'indescribable', I think. God transcends time and transcends all things.
And Einstein taught us some of the basic attributes of time, which demolished man's earlier thinking about the dominance of time in man's affairs.
To Einstein, time was merely an important aspect of a flexible existence, which he taught us to bend.
Who knows what new things we will certainly discover about the silly rubber cosmic jellybean called 'time' in days to come?God is probably amused by our sincere but fallible struggle to reach the truth.
I think all time exists in a single second, which comes from older Celtic ideas about the Universe.
To the Celts, God had one thought, in one day, and we are all attached to that single moment of esistence.
Our mortality creates a 'delusion' of time for us, which softens our human condition, but dulls our consciousness of God's timelessness.
2006-12-24 06:43:49 · answer #3 · answered by Marc Miami 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with aali_and_ ... In this life, we are limited by time, in fact, a kind of time particular to this universe. It is impossible for us to define what time would be for God, particularly because we don't even know what God is.
2006-12-24 06:34:11 · answer #4 · answered by homo erectus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As God is multidimensional, time is meaningless. We think in terms of time because we tend to be one-dimensional in our thinking. There is a sort of psychological time, but even that is not "time" as we think of it, and in deeper terms, may not exist at all.
There is God, and everything God creates. All in this spacious present, this eternal now.
2006-12-24 07:09:03 · answer #5 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to scripture Time exists under the sun and the moon.
In the third heavens there is no time, it is outside of all time.
However, God can look down and see time when He looks on our lives, because we cannot escape time.
2006-12-24 07:07:27 · answer #6 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From a logical viewpoint you wouldn't try-if God is supernatural and omniscient it would be a pointless exercise to try and define how or if time affects him.
2006-12-24 06:32:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is only a concept in the human mind. It seems God is in the timeless "now". The only time we live is Now.
2006-12-24 06:58:21 · answer #8 · answered by Weldon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is an optical conclusion. The time the universe began is the same time you asked this question. Time is being and if God is being he is doing it at the same time.
2006-12-24 06:39:12 · answer #9 · answered by michaelsan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time with God is not time that you have to set aside...it is the time you spend living and breathing his yoke. You can spend time with God on the toilet for pete's sake. Time for God is not a Sunday church thing, it is living in the presence of this love and your relationship that you build with him...
ALL PRAISES TO YOU LORD FOR YOUR GIFT ON THIS DAY
2006-12-24 06:30:46 · answer #10 · answered by Heather 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋