Eternity is the Non Existence of time.
A. W. Tower said “Time marks the beginning of created existence, “
But I wonder, wouldn’t even thinking about creating something be considered a part of “time”? (Ie, there was a time before creation that the thought came to be that soemthing shoukd be created)? Or would,one say that a timeless God always had the thought of creation in his mind for eternity? Acts 15:18 tells us “Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world (from eternity).” his decrees were from eternity, before anything was ever created, infact, his decrees always were in existence- he always knew the end even before the beginning began. God doesn’t learn as he goes, for he knows all,things and zlways has.
If so, what prompted him to “wait so long” to begin the creation? And was it really a situation where he “waited” if time doesn’t exist? is it always “now” in an eternal existence? is there a “sequence of events” if time doesnt exist? (a sequence of events can only really be meausred by th3 passing of time i think? ie, something happens “first”, then another thing happens “second”, after the first thing happened, marking a chsnge in time, and so on and so forth)
All that is finite and created have a cause, and only an eternal agent can cause the finite to exist, to have a beginning. That eternal cause can grant eternal life to the created finite being if it so chooses, and thbakfully,God did.
Yes. The uncaused cause is not available in nature. An event is not a time. A sequence of events are delineated by the observer as occurring according to a structure of time. It is how we distinguish one thing from another.
What is the relationship between consciousness and time? Conscious is in the moment. It is the eternal now. We cannot be conscious of the past or of the future, only of the now. In consciousness there is no time, only now.