2007-11-04 06:33:15 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To show that it is contradictory is to show that the bible is manmade.
2007-11-04 06:36:54 · answer #1 · answered by Professor Sheed 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God gave us the present and we destroyed it by inventing yesterday and tomorrow.
This is how Time works, it allows us to abuse the present by living in constant fear. We can put a boundary on our lives by talking in Hours, Days, years etc. but if we lived in the true present these terms would be meaningless.
The 'Now' is a beautifully place, it has no concept of cause and effect. It has no guilt of yesterday or fear of tomorrow. To sit down with an empty mind and revel in the peace and tranquillity is a pleasure few receive until they are close to their maker.
Imagine opening your eyes with no concept of a past or future. No fear or worry about things that have or will be, done. Only the everlasting now. This is a life without time.
Try sitting quietly and empty your mind of all the things you did yesterday, Focus on Now, Forget the things you must do tomorrow, Focus on Now.
This is the state we are aiming for, silly that we have to find out the hard way but that's free will for you.
Have a nice life.
2007-11-04 07:00:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is time in Heaven. In Revelation 6:9-11, we find people who have been martyred for their faith. They asked how long until their deaths are avenged. They were told to wait a little longer. So they are aware of the passage of time, must have patience, and must still wait some more.
In Revelation 11:18 tells about the twenty-four elders in Heaven saying that the "time" of the dead, that they should be judged is coming. In Heaven, people acknowledge that there is an order of expected events to occur, and that each event will take time to transpire.
Don't forget that when Christ returns to earth, the saints will return with Him. Heaven will be on earth. God will dwell with His people on earth (Rev. 21:3). The heavenly Jerusalem will come to earth (Rev. 21:1-2). Earth will be transformed and we will live on it.
There is nothing wrong with time on earth now, and there will be nothing wrong with using time to schedule things in the new earth, either.
2007-11-04 06:46:04 · answer #3 · answered by Steve Husting 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time as we know, begins and ends. But there can be defined, a cyclic nature for time.
That is, time has no beginning nor end, just like a circle has no end. A human being in his life time experiences only a small curve on this circle and sees it to be linear(i.e., with beginning and end).
In heaven, we realise that the 'time' we have thought of, is actually only a fragment and we see the remarkable magnitude of it. Then, we lose the perception of time(you forget what time is like).
Thus, time is infact omnipresent and forever actually is a fixed amount of time encapsulating the whole of this huge circle.
2007-11-04 06:43:13 · answer #4 · answered by Siva K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was and is and shall ever be.......
He was then and is Now and will be again......
TIME is of No meaning.....
He was with Abraham in the plains of Memre
yet ....again he was born of a virgin in bethlahem
and yet died on the cross and rose again the third day...
and yet spoke to the disciples 40days before he ascended
yet he is still the same yesterday today and forever.......
To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord
in that moment...time for me will be no more.......
a day is as a thousand years...and a thousand years is as a day to the Lord..........
Theres simply put.....
He is the beginning and the end...the first and the last....he is infinite..and to a child of God they will be too !!
2007-11-04 06:41:44 · answer #5 · answered by hghostinme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Words like 'infinity' and 'forever' and even 'perfect' are only imaginary abstractions. Our view of the universe--either theological or religious--doesn't allow for anything to be 'perfect' or to last 'forever'. To even consider such ideas you have to use your imagination.
We humans are stuck in time. We can only live one second at a time, then the next second. We can't go forward to the future, we can't go back to the past. Because of this our brains have a hard time imagining 'eternity'. We think of it as 'forever', but it has a different meaning for some people.
Some Jewish/Christan theologians have come up with an idea of 'eternity' that it is all times in one. Time simply doesn't exist. So God, for instance, can see the entire course of history at one glance. He is present in all times at once and can tweak history anywhere in time. This is a difficult concept for us to grasp, and in fact it's not 'truth', just someone's speculation.
2007-11-04 06:41:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We live in ten dimensions. The relationship between one of those (time) and the other 9 is still far beyond our comprehension.
To be categoric on something we do not understand is plain stupidity. We don't even know what gravity is yet, never mind about time.
But it sure is fun trying to imagine what "no" time could be.
2007-11-04 07:01:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Forever" is a term used to describe a world without time. Since humans are temporal creatures and all subject to the rules of time, "forever" is as best a description as yet invented to describe what a world without time is like.
2007-11-04 06:37:57 · answer #8 · answered by Gordon B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Infinity
2007-11-04 06:36:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ForEver is a Loooooong Time on the Earth.
Eternity is "no time"---Think of Eternity as "Nothing Wears Out" :)
2007-11-04 06:40:27 · answer #10 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forever is not a measurable amount of time, hence there needn't be time to exist in heaven.
2007-11-04 06:37:39 · answer #11 · answered by cixi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋