God and Time?

Question

In the philosophy section, people ask this question all the time: what is time? does time really exist?

And youd be happy to know that most of the answers dont really answer the question.

Does your religion mention anything about how Time came to be? Does God work within the framework of Time without being fully a part of it?

Comments?

Answer 1

Problem is not exactly with religion. Actually we exists in a framework of time-space; and for us it is extremely difficult to imagine something out of this framework. So, never expect a clear answer for this question, it is just not possible until we get out of this framework of time-space.

Answer 2

How many kinds of preexistence and of phenomena are there? Some sages and philosophers believe that there are two kinds of preexistence: essential preexistence and preexistence of time. Phenomena are also of two kinds, essential phenomena and that of time.

Preexistence of time is without beginning, but the phenomena of time have beginnings and endings; for the existence of everything depends upon four causes -- the efficient cause, the matter, the form and the final cause.

The world of contingency exists, in relation to the existence of God it is nonexistent and nothingness. Man and dust both exist, but how great the difference between the existence of the mineral and that of man! The one in relation to the other is nonexistence. In the same way, the existence of creation in relation to the existence of God is nonexistence. Thus it is evident and clear that although the beings exist, in relation to God and to the Word of God they are nonexistent. This is the beginning and the end of the Word of God, Who says: "I am Alpha and Omega"; for He is the beginning and the end of Bounty. The Creator always had a creation; the rays have always shone and gleamed from the reality of the sun, for without the rays the sun would be opaque darkness. The names and attributes of God require the existence of beings, and the Eternal Bounty does not cease. If it were to, it would be contrary to the perfections of God.

Baha'i Writings

Answer 3

Genesis1:1 "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." Which is to say, at the very start of time itself, God created everything. God is eternal and is outside or above time that He created...He sees all time at once. That is why He can inspire the prophets to prophesy events many hundreds of years in the future and they are 100 percent accurate. It is the only book in the world that can claim that....there are several hundred prophesies in the Old Testament that came true over hundreds of years from when they were given. Many of them are regarding the birth and life of Jesus. The odds of just 11 of them coming true are greater than all the number of electrons in the whole universe.
Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/index.php?search=day+thousand+years&searchtype=all&wholewordsonly=yes&version1=31&spanbegin=1&spanend=73

Answer 4

Yes.

Time represents a small part of eternity. It began when the world was being formed with God and is said to be ended when Christ returns in the second resurrection.

Think of round cake. The entire cake would represent eternity which has no end to it as a circle does. then a slice of that cake could be used to represent time.

Hope this made sense

Answer 5

The Bible says some interesting things. It says that one reason we don't understand much is because of our perception of eternity.

It also states that God's sense of time is flexible. A day may be felt as a thousand years, or a thousand years as a day.

From that we see that God can choose to zoom in on any detail he desires and also has the large view.

Answer 6

If GOD obeyed the physical laws of his own creations then he would not be able to get to the far side of the universe right away! So can you imagine what it's like on the other planets out there since he hasn't had a chance to reach that point yet?

Answer 7

According to religion, God made the Sun, Moon, and Stars to tell times and seasons. It explains that from dusk to dusk is one day. So those who live in the solar system would be influenced by time, dusk to dusk.

We measure a day by light and darkness, but God measures it by darkness and light; because the darkness was first, then came light..

That is why believers in the Bible say a day has to be from dusk to dusk.

However God is not in this solar system, He is in the heavens above, and is not a part of time, but in order to interact with man, He has to step into time, so to speak.

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Answer 8

Time is the measurement of the interval that occurs between two events. The units, obviously, are arbitrary (the same as distance - the measurement of the space between two objects). A second (or other unit of time) is just a made up quantity that can be measured in a variety of ways - how long it takes light to travel a certain distance, how long it takes various radioactive isotopes to decay, etc.

Answer 9

"The Holy Spirit uses time in His Own way, and is not bound by it. And all the waste that time seems to bring with it is due but to your identification with the ego, which uses time to support its belief in destruction. The ego, like the Holy Spirit, uses time to convince you of the inevitability of the goal and end of teaching. To the ego the goal is death, which is its end. But to the Holy Spirit the goal is life, which has no end."

Answer 10

God does work with time, just not the same as you and me. a day to God is like a thousand years to us. he usually works in days and nights, instead of hours and minutes. i guess he has his own time zone.