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‘No longer will your sun set, or your moon wane; for the Lord will be your light forever.’ —Isaiah 60:20
In April, the Biden administration called upon NASA to create a moon-based time standard.
The proposed lunar time zone would be known as Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC).
What the inhabitants of the moon think of this has not yet been recorded, but NASA’s imposition of “time” upon the earth’s only natural satellite prompts the question: What is time? As underlying NASA’s undertaking is the presumption that time belongs to man, and, consequently, that it is up to humanity to define what it is. With such a view, man not only presumes to regulate the flow of time here on earth — and also now on the moon — but does so because time is merely a human construct, reflecting humanity’s comprehension of the universe.
This cannot be a Christian understanding of time. Especially so, perhaps, as more than adherents of any other religion, Christians are conscious of time not as something meaningless or of our own making. Instead, it marks out the timeline of the truths of our faith: Creation, the Fall, the Incarnation, the Cross, the Resurrection, the End Times and the Parousia.
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In April, the Biden administration called upon NASA to create a moon-based time standard.
The proposed lunar time zone would be known as Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC).
What the inhabitants of the moon think of this has not yet been recorded, but NASA’s imposition of “time” upon the earth’s only natural satellite prompts the question: What is time? As underlying NASA’s undertaking is the presumption that time belongs to man, and, consequently, that it is up to humanity to define what it is. With such a view, man not only presumes to regulate the flow of time here on earth — and also now on the moon — but does so because time is merely a human construct, reflecting humanity’s comprehension of the universe.
This cannot be a Christian understanding of time. Especially so, perhaps, as more than adherents of any other religion, Christians are conscious of time not as something meaningless or of our own making. Instead, it marks out the timeline of the truths of our faith: Creation, the Fall, the Incarnation, the Cross, the Resurrection, the End Times and the Parousia.
Continued below.
The Moon Marks Time in the Light of the Son
‘No longer will your sun set, or your moon wane; for the Lord will be your light forever.’ —Isaiah 60:20
