If time does not pass for him, then he cannot think because it takes time to think.
2007-08-10 04:03:23 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Even Albert Einstein proved that time is relative to the earth.
I believe that time passes for God, but it is probably perceived quite differently by God than it is by us.
The bible says a thousand years are but a twinkling of an eye to God. That makes sense to me. The older I get, the faster time goes by. I think that the more time I have under my belt, the faster additional time passes. My summers go by so quickly now, but when I was in first grade, the summer seemed to last forever.
I understand that your question was really just to try to incite me and/or other Christians into making an emotional response for your entertainment, but your question actually got me to think a bit about it...so thanks.
2007-08-10 04:07:53 · answer #1 · answered by Scotty Doesnt Know 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Time does pass for Him as written about it taking Him 6 days to create everything.
He is able to see all of time though so the future and the past are both open to Him.
The part that gets me is He gave us free will knowing what we would do with it. He has already seen the outcome of our every decision. Now knowing how some would use that free will to do harm shows that he really cares about us and loves us so much that he allows us that great gift.
Would you give your child a gift if you knew for a fact he would use it for harm? What if you had 1 billion children and you knew thta most would do good with it but it was an all or nothing choice? Would you still give the billion the gift?
2007-08-10 11:11:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the bible it says that nothing in God is impossible. Of course time passes for God but right now in his eyes you are being born and in a second you are retiring from work. Life is short compared to life in heaven. God is everywhere at the same time. God does not need to think. I am not saying he does not, but he has predicted everything in the bible and almost all of it has happened.
-Andy Bailey
2007-08-10 11:11:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is a spirit who dwells outside of our physical time domain--that is, in eternity. In the Bible, God describes Himself in Isaiah 57:15,
"For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: 'I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit.'"
If God dwells in the realm of eternity as the Bible states, then He must be able to declare future events as if they had happened in the past. We who live in the physical restraints of time and space have the disadvantage of seeing the world according to a timeline. But God sees the past and the future as one complete picture.
"Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure,'" Isaiah 46:9-10
So through the vehicle of prophecy, God throws down the gauntlet to all the other "holy books" and all the other "gods" that dare to claim the title. The God of the Bible challenged in Isaiah 41:22-23,
"Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; let them show the former things, what they were, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come. Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; yes, do good or do evil, that we may be dismayed and see it together."
OK, there is the challenge from the God of the Bible. No other book contains prophecy that has been fulfilled with accuracy.
2007-08-10 11:11:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whoa, some thought!!! Very good.
He cannot "think" as we think of it, that's right. We puny creatures are too hung up on our perceptions.
Time does not "pass" for G-d, it simply "is." All 'events' from the 'beginning' of time to the 'end' occur simultaneously from the perspective of temporal transcendence.
Think of it this way: the story contained in a novel flows linearly, from one event to the next when you read it, but when you set it down on a table it exists as a single whole.
2007-08-10 11:09:23 · answer #5 · answered by Alowishus B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is outside of time
2007-08-10 11:08:32 · answer #6 · answered by Bonnie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the old Baltimore Catechism (Catholic) God always was, always will be, and always remains the same,
Since God sustains space/time from moment to moment, I would suggest that God is in all time...past, present, and future simultaneously.
Our notion of time, the measure of change from point "A" to point "B", is a finite notion for creatures like us.
2007-08-10 11:15:40 · answer #7 · answered by Gerald R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the bible it says that one day for god is like a thousand years and 1000 years is like one day for god. So time doesnt pass for god but it does pass for humans and really fast
2007-08-10 11:06:50 · answer #8 · answered by Vanka 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the CREATOR can not be taken in by the creation and my dear friend time is one of the creations of the almighty GOD!
more over it is us who need time to think for him its just KUN FAYA KOON (be done and its done)
why do people think of GOD as an entity? try looking at the sun at high noon on a clear sky, when we cant see its creation then how can we think that we can think or even imagine GOD.
I m a Muslim and there is only 1 GOD so i replied. just to clear ur doubt.
2007-08-10 11:16:06 · answer #9 · answered by Papilio 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is outside of time. Jesus stepped into time when he came to earth to live as a man. God's thinking ability is not comperable to ours. Just because it takes us time to think doesn't mean God is limited by the same frailties that we are. He is not a human being.
2007-08-10 11:09:22 · answer #10 · answered by snapoutofit 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋