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Does Time have a Beginning?

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the universe has always existed. Does that change anything for Christians?
Doesn't for me
Always thought it existed
Of which plays greatly with my finite mind

No end, I can deal with
But, no beginning?
I'm leaving that to my Creator
 
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Give it a year or so, then it will change again ........
I would tend to agree with you as the scientist are stumped by how the universe seems to be from one origin...

"Strange Coincidence

NEVERTHELESS, the properties of the Milky Way are basically the same as those of distant galaxies. It is as though you showed up at a party only to find you were wearing exactly the same clothes as a dozen of your closest friends. If just two of you were dressed the same, it might be explained away as coincidence, but a dozen suggests that the partygoers had coordinated their attire in advance. In cosmology, the number is not a dozen but tens of thousands--the number of independent yet statistically identical patches of sky in the microwave background." The Myth Of The Beginning Of Time
 
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