tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20905577.post8827900804566840300..comments2024-02-22T04:58:19.083-08:00Comments on My Reflections: Science, Time, and Eternity: A Meditation on the Way to EasterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20905577.post-20538315310915960402011-04-20T21:16:55.846-07:002011-04-20T21:16:55.846-07:00Lewis commented on ideas about "Time & Et...Lewis commented on ideas about "Time & Eternity": <br /><br />"This idea has helped me a good deal. If it does not help you, leave it alone. .. But it is not in the Bible or any of the creeds. You can be a perfectly good Christian without accepting it, or indeed without thinking of the matter at all."<br /><br />As the joke goes, “God created time to keep every thing from happening at once!” <br /><br />A timeless world, however, would be a world frozen without change (a Problem of Plato). It puts God in fixed box. What separates “past” and “present” is our awareness something has changed. The Oxford Dictionary defines time, as "the interval between two successive events.” <br /><br />Vincent notes on 2 Timothy 1:9 (you miss typed as 1 Timothy) that the Greek literally reads, "before eternal times..." It is impossible that anything should take place BEFORE everlasting times. It should be understood as before the "time of the world." or as Thayer notes before ("Chronos") time was marked by "star-shine" repetition as in seasons. <br /><br />For Christians, God is both a God of order (but not confined to "Chronos" repetitions) and of History (God is always on the move with creative purpose .."kairos"). Always "Further up and further in..."<br /><br />Bill Jackson, OrovilleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20905577.post-622850593758854592011-04-20T16:17:58.307-07:002011-04-20T16:17:58.307-07:00The analogy using the piece of paper gave me a tho...The analogy using the piece of paper gave me a thought...what about using an A to B line on a Möbius strip? Now God has no end nor a beginning.Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10446337419977796973noreply@blogger.com