Do you believe in time?

Originally posted by npetreley


IMO this is probably very close to being true, if not entirely true. The way I see the comparison is as if God is 3-dimensional and he has created us as 2-dimensional creatures living on a piece of paper. As 2-D people, we can't quite grasp what it's like to be 3-D. But just because it's hard for us to imagine what things are like from God's perspective doesn't limit His perspective. We end up making errors in our judgement simply because our perception is so limited (and He warns us repeatedly, by the way, that His ways are so far above our ways that it is a mistake to lean on our own understanding). For example, God could wrap the paper into a tube and poke His finger through the tube. Since His finger would intersect the paper in 2 places, we would perceive it as God being in 2 places at once, even though the reality is nothing like our perception.

IMO that's sort of what it's like with respect to our limitations regarding time and many other perspectives.

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Originally posted by franklin


s0uljah, Hiyadoin, very thought provoking post.... That brings the question to mind, can God tell time? Why does Peter say 1000 years is as one day to God? Is God telling Peter that 1000 years is a literal one thousand years or is this to have a symbolic meaning of completeness? When God communicates time to man, He reasons with His creation in a way that man can understand Him. But in the scripture, God spoke to MAN! The time statements about the kingdom's establishment were made to MAN! The time statements in the Bible were spoken to man to encourage or to warn man. If God did not mean TIME when he used time words, what did he mean?

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