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raefinlayTime is a funny thing. All things change with time, yet time itself is immutable. It proceeds steadily, measurably, inexorably. We have outwards perceptions of time differentials (the day went by sooo fast...this hour is creeping by...) but in a deep place of subconsious assuredness, we understand these perceptions to be false and we set our lives by a universal clock. Time rules us. We measure our lives and accomplishments by it. We were created by it.
Omnipresent. Immutable. Creator. Destroyer. Infinite. God.
But what if time were merely a property of physics like gravity or distance or energy? What if it had a beginning? (If it didn't...then how did enough time pass for me to get here?) What if *ducks flying words* it's a created thing?
I ran across this verse in the Bible: "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." 2 Peter 3:8
I guess that explains a few things.
Like why he would say "I am coming soon" and 2,000 years later, he's still taking his sweet time about it. It would also explain why he "predestined" those he "foreknew."
Maybe God sees the universe from a perspective completely outside of time. Maybe he can unroll the film of our existence and look at every single frame in our linear timeline all at once. Maybe he created time so our finite brains wouldn't explode from sensory overload.
An old hymn says, "When we've been there ten thousand years bright shining as the sun, we've no less days to sing God's praise than when we first begun." I wonder if this is the psalmist's feeble attempt to comprehend true eternity. Maybe we won't be in heaven for more than ten thousand years. Maybe we'll just BE. I wonder if God will rip open our minds to experience timelessness, complete freedom from the physical boundaries of our universe. I can't say with all certainty that it's a beautiful prospect, because my mind requires measurable time to function. Or so I think. But it gives me a whole new motivation to "seize the day."
End ramble. Now it's time for bed.
Omnipresent. Immutable. Creator. Destroyer. Infinite. God.
But what if time were merely a property of physics like gravity or distance or energy? What if it had a beginning? (If it didn't...then how did enough time pass for me to get here?) What if *ducks flying words* it's a created thing?
I ran across this verse in the Bible: "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." 2 Peter 3:8
I guess that explains a few things.
Like why he would say "I am coming soon" and 2,000 years later, he's still taking his sweet time about it. It would also explain why he "predestined" those he "foreknew."
Maybe God sees the universe from a perspective completely outside of time. Maybe he can unroll the film of our existence and look at every single frame in our linear timeline all at once. Maybe he created time so our finite brains wouldn't explode from sensory overload.
An old hymn says, "When we've been there ten thousand years bright shining as the sun, we've no less days to sing God's praise than when we first begun." I wonder if this is the psalmist's feeble attempt to comprehend true eternity. Maybe we won't be in heaven for more than ten thousand years. Maybe we'll just BE. I wonder if God will rip open our minds to experience timelessness, complete freedom from the physical boundaries of our universe. I can't say with all certainty that it's a beautiful prospect, because my mind requires measurable time to function. Or so I think. But it gives me a whole new motivation to "seize the day."
End ramble. Now it's time for bed.
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Date: 2005-01-29 07:29 pm (UTC)