65. Time...when did it begin?

Anon asked that.
We seem to have lotsa anons here...

Well the obvious answer is , at 00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00n , time began.
Well, actually, that is the zero point which was still in eternity. How do we nominate a time between zero and 1 whatever-nano-milli-bit of a second?
All I can say is time started after zero.

Its like our number system:
it starts after zero...
1 x 1 = 1
2 x 2 = 4
1000 x 2 = 2000, etc.
Its all very predictable.

But,
1 x 0 = 0
1000 x 0 = 0

Also,
1 x infinity = infinity
1000 x infinity = infinity.
Is that funny?

My point is , time is like arithmatic: within our timeline, everything is predictable.
Outside our timeline, like before and after, nothing can alter the numbers:
instead of zero and infinity, read eternity. One eternity.
Except that eternity surrounds our timeline. It is all encompassing.
1 x eternity = eternity
1000 x eternity = eternity.
Nothing can alter the numbers.

But inside our timeline, maybe, and maybe not, the numbers are predictable?
Since it all fits within the eternal frame, how do we know the numbers / years have any real effect?
So I ask you, what is reality?
What is real time, if it exists?

So how come everyone is so confused about whether the world was made in 6 days or 6 billion years?
Who owns the time system? Who created it?
The creator of the (time) law is the only one who is outside the law.
Just maybe, there is no time.

A day for God is as relevant as a thousand years. There is little difference.

2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Be not ignorant???


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Now to answer the question, when did time begin?

First the question, whose time?
Then, which time?

And I wonder about the people before the flood who lived 900 years, shall we bring them into it?

Jos 24:2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, [even] Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

Does that raise a question of old time or new time, or what?



Lets take a starting position, that in the beginning was God.
That he created time

I am thinking of that saying, Gods time is not our time. Is it biblical? Is it just a quote? Anyone?

I imagine time as being a straight line, A___Z, on which we sit.
This line is like a speck of dust in eternity. Straight, but speckish.

Eternity, imagine it like a big space, not a room because rooms have boundaries.

So this speck is floating around there. This is our timeline from our perspective.

Now in some other part of the space, along floats another speck of someone elses timescale.

Then more and more. Until it gets a little crowded.
Bang. Big bang or little bang, there is a collision between 2 timelines. They intersect.
They might have intersected at point M, between A and Z

So on our time line we meet arrivals from someplace else .

So in our 6 day creation, a 600 billion year previous existence integrates in what I call perpendicular time.
Then eventually you might have lots of integrations like a bristle brush.
This helps explain one time line in respect of another


It also explains the existence of fossils etc.

Lets invite comments?

Ross




Gen 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:


Gen 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.


Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.


Gen 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,


Gen 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.


Gen 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.