Bible Question: Since we are so aware of time, and God is seemingly outside of time. Why was time created? |
Bible Answer: Greetings, mother_of_nine. I believe time is a boundary or barrier between temporal (temporary) things and eternal things. "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal." [2 Cor. 4:18 NASB] Apparently, God created some things (such as this earth, for example) with a built-in rate of decay. Thus, everything created in this manner has a finite term of existence, and time is merely an expression of the aging (decaying)process. [This seems to indicate that God Himself came up with the idea of "planned obsolescence." :)] "Take notice! I tell you a mystery (a secret truth, an event decreed by the hidden purpose or counsel of God). We shall not all fall asleep [in death], but we shall all be changed (transformed) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the [sound of the] last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead [in Christ] will be raised imperishable (free and immune from decay), and we shall be changed (transformed). For this perishable [part of us] must put on the imperishable [nature], and this mortal [part of us, this nature that is capable of dying] must put on immortality (freedom from death). And when this perishable puts on the imperishable and this that was capable of dying puts on freedom from death, then shall be fulfilled the Scripture that says, Death is swallowed up (utterly vanquished forever) in and unto victory. [Isa. 25:8.] O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? [Hos. 13:14.]" [1 Cor. 15:51-55 Amplified] Kind regards, Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher and father_of_five :) |