tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8076218417451364964.post3575449723287587823..comments2023-10-09T09:11:20.120-05:00Comments on Tom Wolff's Blog: Is God Above Time?tom wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045360985467575407noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8076218417451364964.post-17611498765285997742013-09-03T11:09:44.187-05:002013-09-03T11:09:44.187-05:00You could definitely see your enthusiasm in the ar...You could definitely see your enthusiasm in the article you write.<br />The arena hopes for even more passionate writers like you <br />who aren't afraid to mention how they believe. 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The human race has personified the mysteries of time into a lovable notion of the supernatural called God. This notion seems a release for human’s nature to be spiritual and relentlessly inquisitive about how we got here and where we’re going. It seems that God exists in the minds of those who want to share love with our creator. For the others? They shall test themselves to find contentment in the love for only and all that time has given them and be spiritual with those, face to face.Jay PerryCookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05234021192009310512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8076218417451364964.post-88700194264752766642008-03-02T04:58:00.000-06:002008-03-02T04:58:00.000-06:00IMHO, if God exists in anything like Biblical form...IMHO, if God exists in anything like Biblical form, he must be above Time.<BR/><BR/>In the world of Physics, time is assigned the same importance as any of the other 10 known and theorized dimensions within our universe. Time dilation is a measured fact (the age of returning astronauts is tiny fragments of a second off from their counterparts on Earth), which pretty means it is not just a man-made convenience to measure the lineal existence continuity of visible matter. We see the effects of this dimension in the decay rates of the elements. That is really one of the most fundamental driving forces in our universe.<BR/><BR/>What Biblical evidence is seen? Your choice of the verse stating that to God 1000 years is a day and vice versa actually indicates the direct opposite of what you claimed. To me, this says that all Time is the same for God. If a day can be as a 1000 years, and a 1000 years can be as a day AT THE SAME TIME, then obviously God must not experience Time as the linear flow we perceive. <BR/><BR/>Then there's prophecy. There are only two ways prophecy can exist. Either God controls the smallest workings of every atom in all the universes all the time, or he can peek ahead to find out what you're eating for breakfast tomorrow. The first case totally destroys the concept of Free Will, so I submit that for God to know any or all of the future, he must be able to skip at least his vision into any point along the time continuum. <BR/><BR/>Therefore, prophecy plus Free will equals a God outside of Time. Now, I have had at least a couple people over the years tell me that Gods "turns off" his ability to see the future so that he can be just as surprised by your breakfast choice tomorrow as you will be, but since every event that happens, large or small, is the culmination of myriad events before it, God must have total knowledge of the future to properly understand when each event will take place, especially those that are based on, and thus consequent to, Free Will choices .<BR/><BR/>It is, like you said, a difficult concept to get your head around. I see it like Time being the rat maze, us being the rats, and (here come the heretical part!) and God being the lab technician dispassionate;y feeding some us cyclomates, spraying others with DDT, all while shouting at others to measure the effects of sleep deprivation. Anyway, it's the cage part that makes the analogy, the rest is just there 'cuz I've been awake all night despite a double dose of sleepy drugs... <BR/>~Ed~ <BR/>ps: I like john's breakfast idea... I'm pretty open...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8076218417451364964.post-64116608036322555862008-02-26T07:00:00.000-06:002008-02-26T07:00:00.000-06:00Thanks Dad and Bryan for your comments. Dad, I di...Thanks Dad and Bryan for your comments. Dad, I didn't realize your work had time as an important component like that. Yes, I can't wait for the time :o) when we can have all of our questions answered.<BR/><BR/>And Bryan, where did you find Jmoorehead's blog? He's from an entirely different part of the US, and so it is cool that different people all over the US look at the nature of God like we are doing.tom wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15045360985467575407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8076218417451364964.post-89908790176407787052008-02-24T08:34:00.000-06:002008-02-24T08:34:00.000-06:00What is time? Life is measured as you say from the...What is time? Life is measured as you say from the beginning to the end. Creation to an eternal end.What went on before the clock started at creation? I have struggled with questions of this nature in my work. I could measure the relaxation (decay) in a streached plastic band in order to predict its future life. But going backward to find when it first started to decay was always elusive.Mathematically it was posible, but you always run into that infinitively small quantity that can never actually reach zero...<BR/><BR/>Where am I going with this?<BR/><BR/>We know that god is omnicient, knowing all things being in all places and having been from there from alpha to omega ie: from infinity before to infinity beyond. I like the explaination that Bryan referred to. <BR/><BR/>God is just to large for us to grasp and put into a box that we can grasp like time.<BR/><BR/>Someday we can ask him for a better explaination face to face...<BR/><BR/>dadAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8076218417451364964.post-41526847451211394522008-02-23T15:17:00.000-06:002008-02-23T15:17:00.000-06:00Here is a recent similar discussion.http://jmoorhe...Here is a recent similar discussion.<BR/><BR/>http://jmoorhead.blogspot.com/2008/02/praying-for-past-in-future.html<BR/><BR/>bryBryan Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14377555104226944323noreply@blogger.com