TIME and SPACE...
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Albert Einstein’s fascination with ‘time’ (and space) lead him to discover the ‘Theory of Relativity’ which was subsequently proven to be true. This gave us a new perspective on our universe from the distant galaxies to subatomic particles. So when we look into the night sky we understand a little more than our ancestors did when they studied the stars. Yet our universe remains an awe inspiring mystery.
Modern physics shows us that the ’Time Space Continuum’ that is our living reality is like fabric. A fabric that stretches out from the ‘beginning to then end.’ It is revealed to us in our senses not only in the three dimensions that we see but others that we don’t see. (How many dimensions is still speculation.) So ‘time and space’ is all that we understand. It is our limited reality!
Unless you are an atheist who believes that our universe (time and space) just happened ‘by a cosmic accident’, we wonder how it all came about? (Atheists I ask you, ” How can an accident happen if there is no cosmos?”) Of course the TRUTH is that in the beginning there was God and nothing else. HE spoke then ‘the Big Bang’ (which was so name by a Christian Physicist) happened. So the great MYSTERY of our universe was born. God is not within ‘time and space’ but is the Creator of time and space.
I read this (again) this morning which caused this reoccurring fascination about ‘TIME’:
“We tend to assume that the whole universe and God Himself are always moving on from past to future just as we do. . . .
Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments following one another. If a million people are praying to Him at ten-thirty tonight, He need not listen to them all in that one little snippet which we call ten-thirty. Ten-thirty—and every other moment from the beginning of the world—is always the Present for Him. If you like to put it that way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.” Mere Christianity” by CS Lewis
O God…“The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.” Psalm 74:16 KJVA
Additional thoughts-
(Added 11.9.18)
“God is not hurried along in the time stream of this universe any more than an author is hurried along in the imaginary time of his own novel. He has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. He does not have to deal with us in the mass. You are as much alone with Him as if you were the only being He had ever created. When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only man in the world.
The way in which my illustration breaks down is this. In it the author gets out of one time series (that of the novel) only by going into another time series (the real one). But God, I believe, does not live in a time series at all. His life is not dribbled out moment by moment like ours: with Him it is, so to speak, still 1920 and already 1960. For His life is Himself.
If you picture time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. We come to the parts of the line one by one: we have to leave A behind before we get to B, and cannot reach C until we leave B behind. God, from above or outside or all round, contains the whole line, and sees it all.”
(Added 11.10.18)
You cannot fit Christ’s earthly life in Palestine into any time-relations with His life as God beyond all space and time…God has no history. He is too completely and utterly real to have one. For, of course, to have a history means losing part of your reality (because it had already slipped away into the past) and not yet having another part (because it is still in the future): in fact having nothing but the tiny little present, which has gone before you can speak about it. God forbid we should think God was like that. Even we may hope not to be always rationed in that way…
“Mere Christianity” by CS Lewis
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