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.

[uglybiker]

That’s ‘newkyulur’!

[TexasFreeper2009]

I think it is important to define what is “real” in order to answer this question.

Real is something tangible, you can feel, see, hear, something you can interact with, ect. as opposed to just imagining something.

When you define real that way. A computer game is “real” you can see, hear, touch, and interact with your environment. You are not imagining playing a game ... you are actually playing the game, it's “really” happening, and thus it's “real”

BUT is it “as” real as real life? or more specifically what we think of as “real life” ? Of course not! playing a character in a computer game although real is not as real as real life. It's a pale approximation of what real life is like.

I believe the same is true with regards to heaven. This life only seems like “real life” because we have never known what the actual reality is, the reality that we experience in heaven.

We are like computer characters that have only ever existed in a computer game that's a pale approximation of reality, who have no idea, having never experienced it, what reality is actually like.

Once you understand all the above, you can see how time in this universe can be completely separate from time in heaven. THIS universe had a beginning. God created it, it has a launch date so to speak.

God created this universe the same way that Blizzard created World of Warcraft.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I don't think it's quite right to say the Universe is "made of God," as if God were a primordial material.

God is not material at all, and is not subject to any of the laws governing materials...

He brought all things into being from nothing, by His all-powerful commanding Word, His Law-Word, His Logos.

It's so beautiful.

In the beginning...

[oldbill]

God created time to prevent everything from happening at once.

[oldbill]

” I do not believe in cyclical. time.”

So what do we do about Christmas, Halloween, the Fourth of July, New Years, and most importantly, Martin Luther King Day.

[fhayek]

The earth spins. So you get day and night. But you don't get the SAME days and nights. You get older, I get older, the EARTH gets older. Don't confuse how we measure time with time itself.

[oldbill]

Sorry, but I just don’t have the time to debate this any longer :)

[Darth Reardon]

God created this universe the same way that Blizzard created World of Warcraft.

He outsourced Creation to India?

[Lazamataz]

The earth spins. So you get day and night. But you don't get the SAME days and nights.

Maybe YOU don't.

[TexasFreeper2009]

ROFL!

too funny!

[Gator113]

LOL.....

[Mr. Blond]

Interesting philosophical question. Can a timeless being, without beginning or end, existing everywhere and possibly everywhere through time, even conceive of time?

[Blue Collar Christian]

Your are right. God’s time is definitely a mystery. He made time and space and matter and energy, and not even The Science Guy can explain how.

This Indian man may not have ears to hear or eyes to see. Eventually we must knock the dust off our combat boots and move on. The writer of the article did make a good point of putting the pagan on the spot. Rather than just defending the Bible account of creation and answering all his questions for proof, he has claims that he needs to make a case for.

When you go there with someone, you need to be studied up.

[Blue Collar Christian]

I don’t know if you are just playing with words or not, but that kind of thinking would lead to worship of the creation.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Indeed.

[DownInFlames]

God created man in his own image and have dominion over the earth. So, yes God created time through his image- man.

[Smittie]

That’s the point I was making to him.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Yes, I saw that and joined you to help our FRiend.

[Ezekiel]

04039 m@gillah {meg-il-law'}
from 01556; TWOT - 353m; n f
AV - roll 20, volume 1; 21

1) roll, book, writing

01556 galal {gaw-lal'}
a primitive root; TWOT - 353; v
AV - roll 9, roll ... 3, seek occasion 1, wallow 1, trust 1, commit 1,
remove 1, run down 1; 18

1) to roll, roll away, roll down, roll together
1a) (Qal) to roll
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to roll up
1b2) to flow down
1c) (Pilpel) to roll
1d) (Poal) to be rolled
1e) (Hithpoel) to roll oneself
1f) (Hithpalpel) to roll oneself
1g) (Hiphil) to roll away

The Scroll of Esther, or in Hebrew, Megillat Esther, tells the story of Purim in such a way that many ideas are alluded to, but are not stated explicitly. The Talmud explains that the name Esther is from the Hebrew word hester, meaning “concealment.” The word Megillah ("scroll"), by contrast, is from the word gilui , meaning “revelation.” Megillat Esther therefore means “the revelation of the hidden,” because our job is to reveal what’s hidden in the story of Purim.

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/97554/jewish/The-Dynamics-of-Revelation.htm

From yarddog:

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

The Hebrew word that best describes Purim is venahafoch hu, meaning “flipped over story.” Whatever bad had seemed to be happening by chance was, in fact, intricately planned for the good. Nothing happens by accident. There’s a design to it all.

http://www.aish.com/jl/h/cc/48938517.html

A wheel, within a wheel...

[Mrs. Don-o]

Whoa! Thanks for that. Very interesting indeed.