Did God create time?

[tonychanyt]

Genesis 1:

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

According to Einstein's special relativity. One cannot isolate time from space. The universe is a 4-d spacetime structure. When we look deep into space, we are looking back in time. The Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object we can see with our naked eyes, two million light years away. If God had created space, that automatically included time as well.

Since God created time, God exists outside of time, Ephesians 4:

10 He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.

Isa. 46:

10a declaring the end from the beginning
and from ancient times things not yet done,

This is an incredible statement. Only God can say it truthfully in the absolute sense. It shows the speaker of a being standing outside of the space-time dimensions. He saw the totality of the 4-dimensional space-time sequence. According to General Relativity, space and time are affected simultaneously by gravity. Different people in different gravitational fields will experience the passage of time differently. With the Webb telescope, we can observe past events in the universe. God can see the past and the future. God has seen the entire sequence of all space-time events being played out.

Does space-time go on to infinity?

John 6:

40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.

What will happen to time after the last day?

Then the nature of time will change to eternality.

 

[Diamond7]

This is an incredible statement. Only God can say it truthfully in the absolute sense.

The amazing thing is that the universe started out so small. They say the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Yet everything that ever was or will ever be was there in the beginning. Not only did time grab a hold of the physical, also all the natural laws were there in the beginning. The law will remain until all is accomplished and there is a new heaven and a new earth.