How does God create time if there is no time before him?

Question

title says it.

Answer 1

Time is a construct to measure change. Matter changes. Before creation/matter there was no change, therefore no time.

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Answer 2

To ask "how" God created time is beyond what we can comprehend. And in this case, the concept of 'time' is purely human.

All throughout history, man has developed the concept of time. Long time before, there were sundials; hourglasses with sands; things which man used to measure 'time'. Behind it all, I believe that man used these things to help him go about each day- doing his activities and eventually, take the time to rest.

From the beginning the world was created, God had set the moon and the stars in the sky and set the sun as well. Day and Night were then formed; God is all powerful and He sets everything in order. His power and greatness are beyond our comprehension. For with God, there is no such thing as time. But He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

To question His prowess on 'how' he did other things as well (like How He created the earth, the stars, the plants, people, etc.) only proves that there is a GREAT CREATOR AND HE IS GOD.

Answer 3

Time is a dimension of reality that measures the movement and relationship of physical matter. For example, a year represents the speed of which the earth makes a complete orbit of the sun and finds itself in the same place again. A day is the speed it takes for a complete rotation of the earth. Time is dependant upon physical phenomenom and vice versa. Is there time if there is nothing to measure it against? Would you be younger on mars since the years take longer? Is time relative? The way I see it, which I could be wrong and probably am since I wasn't there, is that where there is not material matter, there is no time because it is relative to the measurer and measurement. Before the manifestation of physical matter, a synonym for G-d would have been All- that- is. Time would have been in G-d and not vice versa. A better question than how, would be where does G-d create time. If you ask yourself, "where is the geographic location of the physical universe" you'll find your answer in a phrase that confuses people......IN THE BEGINNING, G-D CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. The phrase "In the beginning" is as specific as "in the afternoon", but not as specific as "at 12:45". The preposition "In" designates spacial location, for example, in the gymnasium, in my pocket, in the afternoon versus the uses of at: at the busstop, at 2:50p.m. The heavens and the earth exist "in the beginning" the same way a baby exists in the womb of a mother. "The beginning" is a noun and points at a specific entity and it is that entity (i.e.in G-d) that is the location of physical matter and the time that accompanies it. I'm sorry, I don't think I am making myself clear, but I hope I have offered at least somewhat of a new perspective for you to consider.

Answer 4

We created what We call "Time". When God created the Universe & put into motion our Solar System, We noticed (A.&E.) that there was a period of "Light & Darkness" is all. It was many years outside the Garden before Man divided this "Cycle" into "Periods" first for the single Cycle then as he observed the Moon & other Heavenly Bodies, we eventually grasped the Concept of Eternity with no beginning & no end. John

Answer 5

Time represents the the temporary nature of mortality. Time as we understand it did not come into existence until the fall of Adam. Time is nothing more than a number that we use to describe the progression of our lives. When we return to live with our Father in Heavenly we will gain a new perspective on time.
Imagine how you would view what we currently perceive as an hour when we live for eternity.

Answer 6

Time is a structure that we have to live...we measure it by day and night. God created a system for us to keep record of how and the way we have lived. Therefore, in this life there is time for our purposes but in the after life there is no need for time...

Answer 7

When God said let there be light and light appeared, God said let there be night and the night sky appeared. So when He created night time and day time that was the beginning of time. Read the book of Genesis.

Answer 8

evrything is made by humans, Hours, minutes, seconds, years, months, weeks, days, decades, milleniums, BC, AD, religion itself. It is all made by people.
But if you want to say how god created it if there was no time before god, then god would have clearly created something new, which there would be no need on how god created time... did that make any sense... anyways I still like my first response. Can I have ten points please?

Answer 9

Time has no meaning to God. He created the sun and the moon, which man uses to count time.

Answer 10

How can God create space if there was no space before him?

Or for that matter, how can God create matter, life, or human beings if there was none of these before?

Ask him when you see him.

Answer 11

We know God is the cause of the universe and we know time (succession) did not exist "prior to" the beginning of the universe, so if God caused the universe to come into being He had to do so before time. But it is impossible to have a "before time" because before is itself a temporal word.

Talking about what happened before time is like talking about what is north of the North Pole, or talking about temperatures lower than absolute zero. There is nothing north of north, and nothing lower than zero. These are mental constructs only, having no ontological basis in reality. The beginning of time is a boundary beyond which only our imagination can travel.

Trying to find time before the beginning is like trying to cross the boundary of space into spacelessness. There is no space on the other side of space in which to cross over into, and likewise there is no time on the other side of the beginning to go back to.

Rather than thinking of God's existence in terms of before and after creation, it is better to think of God's existence in terms of without and with creation. It is meaningless to even think of God's decision to create, and His act of creation in terms of when. God simply created from eternity.

We still might ask, But at what point in time did the universe emerge from eternity? At the beginning of time. One may quip, But that does not answer the question! It does answer the question, but not in a way we temporally-bound creatures can wrap our minds around. We exist in a time-space-matter continuum, and as such we can only think in terms of time and space. Because every thought and act in our world is measured by time it is difficult for us to comprehend and accept the notion that God's pre-creation existence was void of temporal relations.

The simple fact remains that asking when the universe emerged from eternity is like asking what was before time, which is an oxymoron. Maybe we could answer the question, When did God create the cosmos? by saying In no time at all!