Time is ultimately a function of the universe. Its existence defines the beginning and end of time.Revelation 10:6 speaks of Him who created all things, creation being the context of time. The verse then concludes with, “and time shall be no more”. The implication is that time is peculiar to the creation, which is empirically correct for time is only possible where something has a defined beginning and end.
It amazes me that a man living 2,000 years ago could articulate such an elegant concept well before his time.
We can only appreciate the concept of time within the created domain of God, that particular event horizon which defines the universe as a subset of divine time. When this created spectacle ends and is done away with, the fringe between time and eternity will be done away with – and “time shall be no more”.
So biblically and empirically the only reference point for time must be outside of time and the only “object” we know of that is independent of time is the eternal creator who made us and determines all our times and seasons.
By 1970 leading astrophysicists, including Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, had extended relativity theory to embrace time and space. The result was the space-time theorem which concluded that general relativity was not only valid for the entire universe but that space and time must have originated in the same big-bang moment. Hawking concluded that time had a finite beginning, which coincided with the beginning of our universe. Therefore time as we know it is limited to our universe and is a sub-set of non-time or eternity.
The arguments proposed thus far, call for an absolute reference point, external to our system, as a basis for time. If that external reference point is also moving, also subject to time, then it is not absolute, merely a relative reference point. But because the Big-Bang moment defined the beginning of space and time, by implication time is limited to the universe and beyond that is another dimension that is independent of time or space.
We can only appreciate the concept of time within the created domain of God, that particular event horizon which defines the universe as a subset of divine time. When this created spectacle ends and is done away with, the fringe between time and eternity will be done away with – and “time shall be no more”.
So biblically and empirically the only reference point for time must be outside of time and the only “object” we know of that is independent of time is the eternal creator who made us and determines all our times and seasons.
By 1970 leading astrophysicists, including Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, had extended relativity theory to embrace time and space. The result was the space-time theorem which concluded that general relativity was not only valid for the entire universe but that space and time must have originated in the same big-bang moment. Hawking concluded that time had a finite beginning, which coincided with the beginning of our universe. Therefore time as we know it is limited to our universe and is a sub-set of non-time or eternity.
The arguments proposed thus far, call for an absolute reference point, external to our system, as a basis for time. If that external reference point is also moving, also subject to time, then it is not absolute, merely a relative reference point. But because the Big-Bang moment defined the beginning of space and time, by implication time is limited to the universe and beyond that is another dimension that is independent of time or space.
(c) Peter Eleazar at www.bethelstone.com
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