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To: PeteB570

Excellent question. Time is a human construct. Until Adam there was no time, only the passage of events flowing into each other as a river of existence. There was day and night and the changing of the seasons occurring in endless repetition. But there was no time. God exists outside the limitations of time and space. He is infinite with no beginning and no ending. For God time has no meaning. When we refer to a day in God’s time we may be referring to a million or a billions years. Not until God created Adam did time exist. Adam began to count his years once he was banished from Eden.


14 posted on 11/29/2018 10:23:14 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Excellent question. Time is a human construct.

Incorrect. God Himself is the Creator of time. In fact it was the first creation: "In the beginning, God created...." You may as easily say, "In the beginning of time, God created ...."

Until Adam there was no time, only the passage of events flowing into each other as a river of existence.

Where in Scripture to you find that concept?

There was day and night and the changing of the seasons occurring in endless repetition. But there was no time.

Incorrect. Time and seasons are linked together in Scripture: "He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning." (Daniel 2:21)

God exists outside the limitations of time and space. He is infinite with no beginning and no ending.

Correct.

For God time has no meaning.

Incorrect. See Daniel 2:21 again. Also consider that God created time for man to be accountable for his days on Earth, and for the days of the week as He established them as recounted in the Law: "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is. (Exodus 20:11)"

When we refer to a day in God’s time we may be referring to a million or a billions years.

But wait... "God's" time, you say? We just agreed that God is outside of time. He is not bound by time (He is the Creator, and not bound by His Creation), but God created time, and on the 4th day of His Creation of the Earth and the Universe, He created stars and planets, and set them in place to mark the passage of time, as a reference for the time interval, "day and night"; He defined on Day 1, a time interval for the passage of night and day apart from being marked by celestial bodies. The importance of this is God defines time for man and His Creation, not the stars, not the Creation, and not man himself.

Not until God created Adam did time exist. Adam began to count his years once he was banished from Eden.

Incorrect as described earlier. As for Adam he marked his years from the day of his Creation, not from the time of his sin and subsequent banishment from the Garden.

FReegards!

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35 posted on 11/29/2018 11:49:06 AM PST by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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