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Why did God take so long to create everything?
theophilus:
--- Quote from: John from Kentucky on January 28, 2013, 06:17:11 PM ---Einstein is greatly overrated. His theories do not predict what happens on the other side of a black hole, nor what it was like before the Big Bang. Also, his General Theory of Relativity did not predict the expansion of the universe at an ever increasing velocity the further objects become from one another. There is still no adequate proven explanation for that phenomena discovered in the later 1990s. Also, his explanation of gravity is inadequate.
God's name of Jehovah (Yahweh) means "He is coming", (in Hebrew,third person singular, incomplete action, thus in future time).
In Revelation, God is called "Is, Was, and Will Be",-----an existence in time.
And Ray's quotation of the Scriptures showing God is working through time.
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Yes, John. God is working THROUGH time. But this doesn't mean that God is bound by time. I believe time exists INSIDE our universe. You said the universe is expanding. What's the medium it's expanding in? Is time running in that medium? or is time running only in our universe? Like I commented to Kat, if God HAS ALWAYS existed, then time has always existed too. Existence has to do with time. This is why I say that this statement might be incorrect.
Blessings.
Gina:
--- Quote ---Like I've imagined on many occasions, eternity WILL BE A VERY LONG TIME. What will we do with it?
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~Theo
I can only imagine. ::)
Not to be snarky, but no one can give you a satisfactory response to that question because no one knows the answer to that - and how could we? We haven't gotten there yet! See?
Who wants to bet God knows what we'll do with all that time? ;)
Gina:
Too true.
Rhys 🕊:
Too true is right and I like what you said John - God and He alone is the only One Who impresses me.
I'm not sure about all this Einstein stuff but then me brain not so well.
All I know about time is that there is never enough of it each day to get everything done.
When your in God's presence time moves on pretty fast. I was once praying for 5-6 hours and it only seemed like 1 hour. When your with God time has no affect but perhaps that just me.
Oddball Rhys
indianabob:
Perhaps we should use care in attributing anthropomorphic limitations to the Creator God.
e.g. That God waits patiently for humanity to spread across the earth and become as numerous as the sands of the sea does not necessarily prove that God was limited to that method. It could just as reasonably be that God chooses to use time to teach us what God already knows about patience because God invented it or HAD it from the beginning.
Another example might be that God actually enjoys guiding and watching us grow in grace and knowledge and does not need to have a rapid result. In other words he enjoys living and working with all of us and watching our progress. It is only mankind that wants quick results, but God knows the end from the beginning.
Think of the conception and development of God's only begotten son Lord Jesus. A period of thirty some years which God monitored every day for some 12000 days. Then for the next couple of thousand years watching his perfect and faithful son lead, govern and manage the growth and development of all those that Father God had given him, the called and chosen.
It's not about winning the game because that is a foregone conclusion, rather it is being in the game as the owner/head coach and participating in bringing all the sons of God into the family, individually, one at a time. That's what God loves, that's God's reward, watching His children develop their talents.
Indiana Bob
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