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Question for the Christians that like to think about logistics...

Concerning God and time, what do you believe and why?

Does God live, operate, and think within our universe's "time"?
Does God live in a "time" that is outside our "time"?
Does God live outside of all time?

What I'm really interested in is how God is both all-powerful, yet still "thinks".

God is so powerful that He is not bound by any time, right? There is stuff going on in heaven right now, so that means some sort of time is passing in heaven... but of course God is not limited by that time, or any time right?

He is so powerful that He is above all time-frames, so how does He have a thought in His head? Thinking, decision making, reacting... these are all things that require time in order for the cause & effect to occur... so, is God trapped in time, or does He not perform what we generally consider to be "thinking" and "reacting"?

2007-09-05 07:02:28 · 25 answers · asked by vérité 6 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

25 answers

God Is Infinite, and therefore timeless.

2007-09-05 07:05:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 2

God is commonly portrayed as being eternal; however, there is more than one way to understand the concept of “eternal.” On the one hand, God may be thought of as “everlasting,” which means that God has existed through all of time. On the other hand, God may be thought of as “timeless,” which means that God exists outside of time, unconstrained by the process of cause and effect.

The idea that God should be eternal in the sense of timeless is partially derived from the characteristic of God being omniscient even though we retain free will. If God exists outside of time, then God can observe all events throughout the course of our history as if they were simultaneous. Thus, God knows what our future holds without also affecting our present — or our free will.

An analogy of how this might be so was offered by Thomas Aquinas, who wrote that “He who goes along the road does not see those who come after him; whereas he who sees the whole road from a height sees at once all those traveling it.” A timeless god is, then, thought to observe the entire course of history at once, just as a person might observe the events along the entire course of a road at once.

2007-09-05 14:11:11 · answer #2 · answered by bwlobo 7 · 0 0

God does work within timeframes. Look at the creation as a start. Being all powerful does not mean he does anything he wants, it means he has all power to accomplish his purposes. He cannot and will not do some things. Yes, he thinks, decides and acts. Is his frame of reference the same as this earths? Probably not.
1 Peter 3
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2007-09-05 14:09:55 · answer #3 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 0 0

My neighbor Jed was riding his mule the other day when a sailboat tipped over on the lake , but Mrs Butler said that her apple pie had grown a second head by the leftover pizza from beer night at the elks club that was sinking in a pool of grape jelly after flushing the cat down aleft turn much to the demise of Hank at the widow Roberts sewing a basket with sunny ribbons of greased monkeys.

Have a nice day.

2007-09-05 14:11:22 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0 0

God is not bound by any time/space continuum.

"There is stuff going on in heaven right now, so that means some sort of time is passing in heaven..."
God is not the only intelligence in heaven. Some of those intelligences may be bound by a specific 'time'.

Any action requiring a space/time continuum process will be different outside of that.

2007-09-05 14:10:00 · answer #5 · answered by phrog 7 · 0 0

Outside time.
From Gods perspective our reality is like watching a DVD it's all done.

In another sense it's all starting, ending and progressing at the same instant from Gods perspective.

This is why when I saw my husband the first time I remembered Rumi.

"The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."

I'd known my husband my entire life 23 years before I met him, because God is love and love transcends Time.

2007-09-05 14:11:24 · answer #6 · answered by gnosticv 5 · 0 0

God makes The Rules... play by God's Rules or you lose..... God [put time(as we know it) inplace as a function of this universe... no mortal is currently cap[able of comprehending God's Time.... so don't worry about it.... get on with your business here... and prepair youself for the time you will find out The Truth of God.... do it now... because if you wait untill you are done here it will be too late... and you will not get to share in God's Time.

If you want to know how to prepair, and about God's Rules... feel free to email me... I might be able to help with the basics.

2007-09-05 14:11:10 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 1 0

Time is a concept. It's how we understand cause and effect.

We don't know what is going on in heaven except that it is somewhat how we know joy, goodness, peacefulness and light. Heaven is full of light that emanates from God.

Our understanding of the phenomena of cause and effect based on time as we know it doesn't suffice to understand what goes on in heaven. And neither does our concept of thought.

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

2007-09-05 14:14:34 · answer #8 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0 0

Amazing. But I think that all we can do is guess for now, we will never truly know until we are taken up to the Kingdom of Heaven.

*God is the almighty power.

2007-09-05 14:08:01 · answer #9 · answered by S. 4 · 1 0

EXACTLY. (so what your're say is god has no head or no brain? If we are dealing with an omnipotent being that can exist outside of time and the physical laws of the universe, can't we just throw cause and effect out too?)

2007-09-05 14:09:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Actually God gave the Jews a time,and of course we know they rejected his son and through their rejection he has given the gentiles a time.God watches over his word to preform it and what ever time that takes is how long we have.

2007-09-05 14:10:49 · answer #11 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 0 0

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