When opportunity came knocking, Joseph had the smarts and skills needed to make the most of it. He knows all things “always”. If the future is already written then praying for anything would be a waste of time. Nathan Otey '15 is a Philosophy and Math concentrator living in Pforzheimer House. Keepin' It Real: A Letter from Lamont Library, PT. As I said in an earlier post, time is merely the measurement between and during points in a linear series. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Just like when you watch a movie, the scenes are real, emotions are real to a person who may be inside the movie at that time but to a viewer of the movie it is just an illusion, a drama which can make him laugh or cry but is not real in any sense.Hindus called this state of temporal existence as state of Maya or illusion. A question for the ages. But my point is that even if this were intelligible for God, He would not see what we are actually like. The difficulty with the timelessness argument seems to arise with the question: how does a timeless God interact in time? I’d also argue if we give any of these objects a mind then it has an infinite personal history which is impossible. I will never leave you nor forsake you.”, 1 Chronicles 16:34 - “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever.”, Psalm 33:11 - “The plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.”, Hebrews 13:5 - “Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have. He cannot watch me ride my bike unless He saw where I was, and sees where I am, and (possibly) will see where I will be. “By next Christmas I will have been working here for six years.”. Something that alludes even Stephen Hawking. Time is not a box or boundary that can be stepped out of - it describes changes or transitions. In the same way that God can see all of the universe’s 3-dimensional space at once, He sees all the events of history–past, present, and future–at once. Or that it will ever end. In fact He has always been creating. Imagine that you are looking at a line on which a dot is moving (back and forth, say), i.e. But this view, I think, fundamentally misrepresents the universe we live in. Knowing the future also comes in handy, no doubt. PNC. He may have been the favorite of his father Jacob’s eleven sons, but Joseph was also the youngest—the low man in the family business when our story begins. For anything to exist at all, causality must of been violated (unmoved mover) and causality is a feature of time. I think there’s some confusion about what it means to say God is not “in” time. Is matter not condensed energy? These wicked rulers had no thought of God and they didn’t think God cared what they were doing. Between when the little hand is on the 3 to when the little hand is on the 12. Because God said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.’”. I saw a poster in a conference room once that said “without data you are just someone else with an opinion” (myself included). God is timeless, having no beginning and no end. Movement and change are absolutely essential to ourselves, our experience, and our universe. However you want to try to make this situation, in the end, it has to check with what God (a God that only tells the truth) tells us in Scripture.
In other words, “time began” at creation. But if energy cannot be either created nor destroyed, then there always was something, even before the Big Bang. 1 Tim. Anything else may or may not be true and is subject to correction (again myself included). (Here the angels are equal with man, time-dependent beings.). Here is my take on it. This means that time, space and matter must all work together. The B-series without the A-series is completely static. People live, act, think, decide, etc. God lives in a constant “present” like we are able to act and move and have interaction with our world only in the present, so likewise God relates to all time as if it were present. That is just as true now as it was when Psalm 94 was written! They want to make it “against the law,” and have in some cases, for those who follow God’s word to exercise their beliefs in their public life. That is, the principles of the Bible are not limited to a specific point in time. There are six main reasons which explain why Christians can perceive God as eternal & timeless; The Bible suggests God always exists God is not a physical being like us God is the creator of the universe, time passing is a feature of the universe – … It is really a rare pleasure to be able to converse with intelligent thoughtful people, who don’t wait to be spoon fed everything they believe from the pulpit. Moreover, if God saw humans timelessly and therefore statically, He could not interact with us. Give by a normal debit or credit card, click below on “Donate” and pay through Paypal (no account needed) and chose Debit or Credit Card on the following screen. There is no “now” from God’s point of view. This might seem over simplified but there is no need to separate God and time.
It would seem that what we call ‘time’ is intrinsic to God Himself, making up just another part of who He is. !” C.S. I will be very interested to see the next essay on whether timelessness view of God is Biblical. http://lagrangenews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2016/11/web1_FieldsNorm2016.jpg. The idea that God should be eternal in the sense of timeless is partially derived from the characteristic of God being omniscient even though we retain free will. I would encourage you to add one chapter from Psalms and one chapter from Proverbs to your daily reading also. He must interact. But both of these concepts don’t take into consideration that God exists outside of time.
Our analogies and ways of viewing this question break down. Me…. Time is the river, and each point on the river curves around this great mountain. And by the time we've done this we are so far away from wherever we started that the entire question and answer are just abstract, fictional constructs that don't tell us anything except how creative we can be. When the first chance for a breakout came, the man who could have interceded for Joseph didn’t live up to his side of the bargain, and the break never materialized.3.
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