The Absence of Time

[Wileyzmuse]

In heaven we won't be bound by the constraints of time, right?! So will we be able to witness history all at once, or how will this affect us there. I can't imagine a life outside of time.

God is outside of time...even though He uses it within our framework of existence. He can see everything at once. In God's mind, everything can be happening at the same time.

Does anyone else think about things like this. I wonder if we should be praying for people in the past. :freaked

[heavenlierealm]

well it seems undoable but god hasnt it handled i really do not like time, its big stress for me:cry

[blitzkreig]

Originally posted by Wileyzmuse
In heaven we won't be bound by the constraints of time, right?! That is a presumption I have seen some folks make. Heaven is infinite and everlasting... but they still may mark time in some fashion. Perhaps God may not bound by the laws of time but that doesn't necessarily mean everyone else is exactly the same. I see mention of the tree of life baring fruit of 12 different kinds presumably at different times so perhaps it is seasonable.

Maybe someone can pitch in an offer up scripture... but my opinion is that there may or may not be time as we know it... however we won't "run out" of time (if that makes any sense) :):

[Knight Errant]

It is true that God transcends time, and it's mind blowing to contemplate it, but nowhere that I know of does the scripture came right out and say that we will share that kind of existance. Maybe we will, maybe we won't, but however it works out, we will be content.

And no, I don't think time will be a problem in the Kingdom. Jesus was the perfect example of an unhurried lifestyle. Time for everything in due season.

It's pure speculation, but we might be able to "bend" time to some extent, so it passes differently for us than for others. So we can run late and still make it to church on time!

[TyTex]

IMHO, it's really beyond our ability to understand because we've never known anything other than an existence bound up with time.

In my puny attempts to think about an existence where you were outside time, I have visualized something like a giant, living cyclorama where you have the ability to see each moment in time at once. Even that concept has its own set of problems, and I have neither the brainpower, the time, nor the inclination to wrestle with them.

Knight Errant is right; however it works out, we'll be content.

[Bible Girl]

Actually there was a time when you did not experience time.

think back to when you were a child. Seems like you were a kid for a really long time doesn't it? Seems like it was a lifetime to me. When in reality it was about 5 or 6 years. That is about the age when we can understand time.

We lived and were aware, but not of time.


I find it very interesting when I think back to then. Things just, "were" ( sorry for the bad english)

BG

[blitzkreig]

I have heard if you look very closely at Charlton Heston (Moses in the movie "The Ten Commandments")... as he was coming down from the mountain top just after he got the Commandments... was wearing a Rolex watch.

Not particularly on topic I know... :pound

[Lonewolf7]

Originally posted by blitzkreig
I have heard if you look very closely at Charlton Heston (Moses in the movie "The Ten Commandments")... as he was coming down from the mountain top just after he got the Commandments... was wearing a Rolex watch.

Not particularly on topic I know... :pound

I tested that....just now. NOPE.

[elredcrow]

Well... all things are possible with God...

I know this:

1. If I get up in the morning and spend some time with God, praying or reading my Bible or both, then it seems that I have 'all the time in the world' to get ready to go to work and I am not late.

2. God impressed me to pray for a lady that I knew several years ago. I didn't know anything about her current life, so I prayed that God would work in her life those years that I knew her and that what she had heard or seen about god at that time would come to fruit at this time. Is that 'bending' time? I don't know.

3. when we are in heaven with Him, time won't matter so why worry about it?

4. we should spend all this time we are here trying to reach others for Jesus. That is what our time on earth is for.

Elredcrow

[blitzkreig]

Originally posted by Lonewolf7
I tested that....just now. NOPE. Must be fixed in the current prints. Here is a list of "factual errors" in the current versions as it sounds like you must have a copy:

http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1264