Question for believers.

[hrmjustin]

Do you think the divine lives in time like we do or lives in past, present, and future like we do?


I tend to think God lives in time like we do.


POSTED IN INTERFAITH.

[kentauros]

1. I believe in the concept of "simultaneous time."

We experience time in a linear fashion because that's just how our minds work. The divine exists throughout all of time, space, dimensions, matter, energy, et cetera. What happened in the "past" is no less current than what happens in the "future." Our lives exist in all of those time-periods, same as the divine

[hrmjustin]

2. That is an interesting way at looking at it.

For me my view of a much more hands off approach of agod males me think that God lives in time like we do.

[kentauros]

3. If you think about it, we are still alive in all of the times

of our life. If God lives in our "current" time, and we are alive in each moment of our whole lives, then God lives across all of that time, same as us

I think the problem we have in visualizing this is that we don't live our lives in full comprehension of all time. I believe that God does, because time is also a dimension of volume, and not only a measurement from one point to another (the linear nature of our lives.) Plus, there's the idea of higher-numbered dimensions for what we'd call Heaven, the afterlife, and so forth. God exists in those, too, as I believe.

Thanks for the thread. It's nice to have conversations like this, and hope more join in

[hrmjustin]

4. My pleasure and you really made me think.

[rug]

5. I think kentauros said it.

God is outside of, and thereby permeates, time.

Mass has been described, not as a remembrance or reproduction of the Passion, but as being present at it.

From the Catholic Catechism:

1364 In the New Testament, the memorial takes on new meaning. When the Church celebrates the Eucharist, she commemorates Christ’s Passover, and it is made present: the sacrifice Christ offered once for all on the cross remains ever present. “As often as the sacrifice of the Cross by which ‘Christ our Pasch has been sacrificed’ is celebrated on the altar, the work of our redemption is carried out.”

[hrmjustin]

6. Yes this is true.

tha ks for the quote.

[el_bryanto]

7. I don't - i believe he is outside of time

But I dont' really have any conception of how that works - the closest I come is a if you can imagine say - a camera set up on Times Square - you project what that camera sees 24 hours a day on to an LCD screen in a picture frame; to you the picture would constantly change with time. To God, though - it would all be one thing. One picture.

But it's hard to conceptualize.

Bryant

[hrmjustin]

8. It is so hard to put it into words.

[No Vested Interest]

9. I believe God does not live in time, as God created time when the universe was created.

God is outside of time; time began and will end.
The Divine has no beginning and no end.
My human mind does not/cannot comprehend all the nuances of time and eternity.

[goldent]

10. This thread seems to be getting sort of Jesuit

The question of time is fascinating, with or without God.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-time-an-illusion/

[Htom Sirveaux]

11. Both.

At Time=0, the divine was all there was. Then creation (space/time) happened, and the divine continued into space/time in relationship to the creation (which was made out of the substance of the divine).