Did God create time?

Creation Ministries International ^ | 1-9-2016 | Shaun Doyle

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Did God create time?

Published: 9 January 2016 (GMT+10)

When preaching the Gospel to people of other religions, it is important to make clear that the God we worship is the ultimate being. God is the sole source of all things, He is uniquely worthy of worship, and the fundamental sin of humanity is that we put other things before God. If we don't make this clear, there is a danger that people of other religions will add God to their pantheon, as today's feedback illustrates.

[yarddog]

Time is one of those things I can’t seem to wrap my mind around. Sometimes when I lie in bed waiting to go to sleep, I will think about time.

We know some things about it. It can be measured, at least in our own world.

Does it go on forever. Has it lasted forever? Is time the mechanism of how God controls things?

One thing which the Bible seems to indicate is that God does not guess what will happen in the future. He makes it happen.

[Big Red Badger]

Newkler,,,,

time “is” so everything doesn’t happen at onice.

[litehaus]

He sat alone
Alone He sat
Saw nothing
Heard nothing
Needed nothing
BUT WANTED SOMETHING

HE SAID: LET THERE BE LIGHT !

[TBP]

The universe i God’s manifestation as well.

Nothing comes from nothing. An Infinite, boundless, Omnipresent being IS its own creation. It cannot be anything else.

Being the image and likeness of God, if God simply spoke the universe into creation, then we speak conditions into manifestation. This is the meaning of the word, “Abracadabra.” It means “As I speak, so I create.”

“In the beginning was the Word” — thus the Word of God is itself God. And if that is so, then all there can ever be is God.

[Smittie]

All God had to create from was God. If all you had to create from were brick, then everything would be brick. Similarly, since all God had to create from is God, then all must be God, in varying forms and expressions.

The Bible tells us that God created all things but all things are not God. We are created in His image but we are not God. We see his handiwork in nature and it may reflect His glory but again it is not God.

[kjam22]

Nothing comes from nothing.

That's what science says. But that's not how it is with God. God made it from nothing.

To believe any other way is to deny the creator his creation.

[fhayek]

Time and space are the same thing (”the time-space continuum”). We are in a four-dimensional universe (if you include time), from a higher dimension, you could view all of time at once (sort of like a record album, you can observe an entire album at once, but it only makes sense if you listen to it one instance at a time). It makes sense to God, of course.

[kjam22]

Yeah... to suggest that everything is made from a part of God, and therefore part of God is really, really bad theology.

[pax_et_bonum]

Lol!

[Kirkwood]

God realized he had to also create time when he created woman. When you talk to a pretty woman, time accelerates. When you are waiting for a woman when she is shopping, time comes to a virtual halt.

[SkyDancer]

There is no time in space, no reference points; only on Earth is time calculated based on Earth’s rotation.

[varon]

I think everything exist at once.

It does, it is our perception that changes, giving appearance of time.........

[Carry_Okie]

Yes! Especially the Seventh Day Sabbath!! He even sanctified it and commanded everyone to "remember it!!!"

Specifically, He said to remember THE Shabbat as a specific event. Think about which one it might be before replying, because it's not Genesis 2:1-3.

[wally_bert]

Or dragged to sporting events, concerts, plays, and other artsy things.

[angryoldfatman]

Isnt time just a construct?

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Not really.

No matter where you’re at in our universe, a second is how long it takes light to travel approximately 186,282 miles.

Now is time flexible? Sure, but only from a relativistic standpoint. Special Theory of Relativity relies on observer speed versus observed object speed. General Theory, as you alluded to, relies on gravity as well. However, the speed of light is a constant in either case, which means that time is not a mere construct, but a true physical dimension.

[TexasFreeper2009]

God created our entire universe, but lives outside of it.

So yes, God created time from our perspective.

Think of it this way:

Imagine you are an online game developer. From the perspective of characters in the game and even players that just play the game from our world. Time started when the game was launched.

The same is true with God.

[unlearner]

What you are expressing is pantheism which fails to distinguish the Creator from His Creation. The Bible reveals that God created all things that were created by His word.

[TBP]

If God is Omnisceint and Omnipotent, God MUST, by definition, be Infinite. Otherwise, there would be someplace to get out of God’s sight and away from God’s power.

Infinite means without boundaries. So if God is Infinite, then God MUST be Omnipresent.

How can that which is without boundaries and everywhere present be distinguished from anything that exists, since it cannot NOT be where and what that thing is?

[Mrs. Don-o]

I wonder if the truer picture is neither (simple) circular nor (simple) linear time, but rather, spiral time. It keeps going around and around, while moving as a whole along a linear axis. And themes recur, but recurrences are not identical: they "rhyme."

[Mrs. Don-o]

I wonder if the truer picture is neither (simple) circular nor (simple) linear time, but rather, spiral time. It keeps going around and around, while moving as a whole along a linear axis. And themes recur, but recurrences are not identical: they "rhyme."

And did God create it? Of course. Time is His creature.