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 Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 4:18 pm
I wanted to picks people's brains on the topic. Often in Christianity we talk about eternity. It is hard to imagine eternal while existing in time much like it is difficult to imagine absolute nothingness. How does the Bible use time when referring to God's actions and person? What did the prophets say? What did Christ say?
There exists a theory that every moment that is happening has happened and will forever happen. It almost asserts the once popular belief of predestination, but negates any notion of free will and puts us in a perpetual state of amnesia filled deja vu--two ideas that go against Biblical teaching. I understand only that matter gives off light that moves at the speed of light and that theoretically if one could travel faster than the speed of light one could watch a silent movie of events passed based on remnant photons. Of course, astrophysicists have yet to fully understand black holes, which would leave "holes" in the photon-based reel, or the shape and gravitational pull of the universe.
In spite of this, how does God fit in. Is his "calling the past" related to the nature of photons, a sort of physical manifestation of his spiritual ability? How does God exist outside time and yet can be eternally present. In the Book of Genesis when it starts "In the Beginning..." is it referring to the beginning of the Universe, the beginning of Earth, or simply a revelation on the nature of God, being also named the Beginning?
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 7:36 pm
"How does God exist outside time and yet can be eternally present."
I would assume the same way truth exists outside of our perception of time yet is eternally present. But that's my guess. I can see how numbers could eternally exist but that's assuming that numbers are not just a human construct, that numbers actually exist as independent entities.
Seeing as Genesis was written by a group of people that thought the earth was all there was to the universe and that it has more to do with describing the human condition than the make up of the universe, I'm going to say it's a safe bet that the authors were talking about what they believed to be the beginning of the earth. John though, I believe was talking about the beginning of our perception of time when he opens "In the beginning"
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