From a Christian stand point, what is time?

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   David2423posted 14 years ago

   A very good freind asked me this question.And it will be intresting to hear other Christians input.

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      tantrumposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Interesting ?
      Really ?

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      kessposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Are you merely interested in the Christian view or the truth?

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      Brenda Durhamposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      The human soul is timeless, immortal;  it is our main essence; it lives forever,  and will end up in one of two places.
      
      Time here on earth is only a fraction of that.   Yet as humans, it's what we naturally want to cling to.   But then, Christians aren't just "natural" because, Spiritually, our real home is in Heaven with God.
      
      If you mean how does God measure time......only God knows!

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      sandra rinckposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      the present.

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      Rod Marsdenposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      The world was created in 6 days but it has been argued they weren't regular days as we know days to be.
      
      The months of the year and the celebration times are based as much on pagan ideas, attitudes and beliefs as they are on Christianity. Our present calendar has 12 months. The one before it only had ten months.
      
      Time differs from age to age. Before watches and clocks people could tell the hour by putting a stick into the ground or looking at a sundial. there were centuries in which people got up with the first rays of the sun and went to bed before those rays departed the sky. Night was for sleeping. Burning candles for any length of time was once expensive. Most people couldn't afford to do it very often.
      
      
      
      

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         TheGlassSpiderposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         It's my understanding that the word "day" in the Genesis account of creation would be better translated "age"

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            Rod Marsdenposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            I agree. Age sounds more like it.
            
            

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      arsmithposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      In the 11th hour. We are the generation that shall see many signs and wonders, earthquakes, pestulance, desiease and famine.

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         earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         As has every other generation!

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      tantrumposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      What has Christians to do with time?
      Is there a 'Christian' time ?
      Is there a Christian event of horizon?
      Is there a 'christian ' relativity ?

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      vox vocisposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      There are two kinds of time: time here on earth which passes by irretrievably and time after death called eternity.

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      The Learnerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Time is simply a consequence of God's creation.  It's a form a measurement that is confined within creation based on orbits and revolutions. 
      
      Time is simply a characteristic of the created order.
      
      God is an eternal being who exists outside of time, for he was before creation existed.

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       Disappearingheadposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Time is a con trick invented by the swiss so that we would buy their expensive watches.

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       ChapmanHesterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Time is absent of time... Time is the twinkling of an eye, it is the instant of a life here and gone, it is the way we define our time here on earth, waiting for God to call us home...  But in the end... Time is nothing but an instant.  We all live and die in an instant... The First Day of your life is the Last day of your life... Everything before you die becomes just a memory and then in an instant it's over... So what is time...? Time is nothing and everything... But the Question is What is God? And do you truly know him? For those of us who do... We know the true answer to what is time... Time is irrelevant! Time doesn't matter, you could live a day or a lifetime, but in the end it is eternity that matters and that my friends is absent of time!

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   thetruthhurts2009posted 14 years ago

   In the BEGINNING GOD....

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   tantrumposted 14 years ago

   

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   Richieb799posted 14 years ago

   Time is man's way of rationalising the concept of infinity.. This might add some knowledge to the question, but I believe many ancient cultures based their calender systems upon the alignment of the constelations or planets.. there being 12 zodiac signs and 12 months of the year.
   however Im not a hundred percentage sure if this is true, maybe someone else could shed some light

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   tantrumposted 14 years ago

   
   I sure know how I measure it !
   

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   Richieb799posted 14 years ago

   Egyptians came to grips with the fact that the year was more than five days longer than their venerable 360-day calendar. This resulted in a change to their method of approximating year length that had been in use for nearly a millennium.

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   Arthur Fontesposted 14 years ago

   Is it a magazine??

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      Rochelle Frankposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Maybe you are thinking of "What is Life"-- that is a magazine.

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      Cagsilposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      

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   tantrumposted 14 years ago

   

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   Wayne Orvisburgposted 14 years ago

   Is the question what is time, meant in a philisophical sense, or a physical sense? Like it takes the Earth 24 hours to make a complete rotation and 365 days to revolve around the sun.

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      David2423posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Time. is it measured by mathimatical stand point or living stand point.Is it a form of spiritual time.Do you know when your time is to expire, an exact minute, hour, day.Isnt Our time which we Know of for example/ we know that tomorrow is wednesday I know 12:00p.m. I will eat lunch ect.For  my Christian faith time is of an element to enjoy the gifts of Christ and in that I am having a good time. For when my life here on earth expires my eternal time will never end. so in a Christian sense of time lets refer to it as for example I am enjoying this ride in eterinty or in this life. lets use life an eternity in place of time for a Christian does not really have a time does he.He has but yet another life in eternity.My friend wasnt asking me if I knew what time it was I guess maybe she was wondering if she was living life here on earth in good time.

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      mohitmisraposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      This accuracy is the cause of time.
      An invention by man in order to try and bring sense into things.We cannot understand no time,its embedded very deep.

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    mega1posted 14 years ago

    oh good grief - we need the Christians to DEFINE time now? do we?

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       Denno66posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Mickey Mouse was a closet Catholic, you know....

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          mega1posted 14 years agoin reply to this

          waaaaaah waaa waaaaaah!

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    tantrumposted 14 years ago

    

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    tantrumposted 14 years ago

    Happy to know my time is not your time!
    you're not making sense !

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    Denno66posted 14 years ago

    So, for a good time call.....

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       David2423posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       So for a good time call on Jesus... Amen.

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    tantrumposted 14 years ago

    Use your phone.

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    Elisa Yagerposted 14 years ago

    Time is the 4th dimension.  It is how we measure when things happen in life and when we can anticipate certain events. 
    
    A good book to read is "Imagining the Tenth Dimension" which you can find on Amazon. 
    
    My two cents.

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    SirDentposted 14 years ago

    There are 60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours to a day, 7 days to a week, approximately 52 weeks to a year, 10 years to a decade, 100 years to a century, 1000 years to a millenia.

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       (Q)posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Really, don't Christians believe one day is equal to millions of years? Or, is the earth really only 6000 years old?

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          mohitmisraposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          This is incorrect or may be there is a deeper meaning but why does all of Christianity have to be branded as a sad philosophy for something like this.Its a spiritual masterpiece and not historical.

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          SirDentposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          You are mistaking believers for God. To God a day is as a thousand years. Has nothing to do with believers.
          
          As far as the age of the earth, I have no idea. God knows. Science thinks it knows but it doesn't. A few decades ago it was in the millions of years, now it is billions.

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             (Q)posted 14 years agoin reply to this

             Is that your belief or did god tell you that?
             
             
             
             A few decades ago, we didn't have the technologies of today. Perhaps, with newly developed instruments and tools, we'll get an even more accurate prediction.
             
             If god knew, why didn't he tell you?

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                SirDentposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                Tehcnology or not, science still doesn't know how old the earth is.
                
                I have never asked God and don't plan on it anyway. I do not try to manipulate Him, which is what it seem you, among others, expect me to do.

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                   DogSiDaedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                   Science is getting closer all the time It is within a very close margin as far as Universal time goes. You are incredibly ignorant if you think otherwise. Plus, how can you prove the current figure is wrong?

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                   (Q)posted 14 years agoin reply to this

                   And, that's somehow a problem and something that's going to support your religion? Science has brought you everything you enjoy today while your religion has taken away much from you, yet you still remain in denial. tsk tsk
                   
                   
                   
                   Isn't that what prayer is supposed to do, manipulate god?

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                      SirDentposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                      What difference will it make if the exact age of the earth is known?
                      
                      Most scientists have believed in God. In this day we live now are more scientists than ever before who were the ones who invented many of the things we now enjoy.
                      
                      I recall reading that 80% of all scientists lived during the 20th century. This means that very few invented much of what we use today. The scientists of today should be thankful for those who came before and did most of the legwork for them.
                      
                      
                      
                      NO.

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                         (Q)posted 14 years agoin reply to this

                         It will mean nothing to believers, whatsoever.
                         
                         
                         
                         Nice try, but nope.
                         
                         
                         
                         Who says they aren't. Are you trying to make a point here, DirDent?

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                            SirDentposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                            What difference will it make to you?

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                               (Q)posted 14 years agoin reply to this

                               A great deal, as it helps to support scientific theories, especially in areas of cosmology, physics, chemistry and biology.

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                                  SirDentposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                                  By all means, carry on with your work.

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                                     (Q)posted 14 years agoin reply to this

                                     We will, carry on with your denial and despising of our work. We'll continue making life better for you and yours, while you do nothing but complain about it.

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                                        SirDentposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                                        Show me where I complained about it.

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       mohitmisraposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       A day 23 hours 59 min and 56 sec.

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    Eaglekiwiposted 14 years ago

    Time is the  present which is why Gods Salvation is also a gift ,get it present-gift , oh never mind lol

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    Susana Sposted 14 years ago

    Why would anyone need a christian standpoint on time? Learn all there is to know about time and create your own standpoint. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYmdgHyC … r_embedded

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    (Q)posted 14 years ago

    Time exists as a mathematical quantity (same as space). Time is not a physical quantity in terms that anything depends on it. Nothing in our physical universe depends on time as well as on space (location), as well as on velocity, and on some other "purely mathematical" so to speak quantities.
    
    This "physical non-existence" of such mathematical quantities is called "shift symmetry (of time, of space, of velocity, of phase, etc)" and is expressed by simple equation: F (t)=F (t+t1). It means, that nothing changes if you shift in time (or in space, or in velocity) any physical process - no observable difference whatsoever.
    
    We call this symmetry term the "energy conservation law,” and "momentum conservation law" for space non-existence (shift symmetry), and "special relativity" for velocity non-existence (shift symmetry), “charge conservation” for phase non-existence, etc.)
    
    Because nothing depends on time, there is no absolute time. No time stones, no other marks indicating time. The only way of "measuring" this mathematical quantity is to take any periodic process say, a pendulum, or a string, or a light bouncing between mirrors, or an electron oscillating in an atom, etc - then call the device a "clock device" or simply "clock”, then take TWO measurements of numbers of oscillations say, at two different locations, or at two different gravity environments, or at two different states of motion, etc., then take a RATIO of these two numbers (can't be one number because time is not absolute) and then label this ratio as "relative rate of one time versus another" or "rate of time versus reference clock rate", or "time in conventional units of time" or "accurate time" or simply "time".
    
    Time used to be defined via pendulum, then via quarts crystal oscillations, then via Cs electron oscillation, and soon via H electron oscillation.

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       Marliza Gunterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       HEN I WAS STILL INTO MAGIC...I USED A PENDULUM TO FIND MY STOLEN JEWELRY...QUARTS CRYSTALS...TO SUMMON RANKING DEMONS OR ASTRAL TRAVEL....CRYSTAL BALL TO COMMUNICATE...TWO MEASUREMENTS OF TAROH CARDS TO EVALUATE MY "WHAT IF" OPTIONS....ANY COMMENT?? CLOCK WERE GOOD FOR MEDITATION...HEHE...

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    Rod Marsdenposted 14 years ago

    Time is relative to culture and religion is part of culture.

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    fatfistposted 14 years ago

    Time is love, desire, and lust.
    Don't believe me? Then just ask all the women that are after my attention!

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    Onusonusposted 14 years ago

    It's 2:15 pacific.

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       SirDentposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Now this is how rumors get started. Holding back part of the information. AM or PM???   

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          Onusonusposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          PM. LOL!!

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    M Cassianposted 14 years ago

    I would add that time from a christian's perspective is nothing but a countdown to the second coming of Christ. Amen?

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       Brenda Durhamposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Amen!

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          David2423posted 14 years agoin reply to this

          amen

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    chambersgirl21posted 14 years ago

    Amen

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    marinealways24posted 14 years ago

    I think time from a Christian perspective is lost time.

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       earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Ramen!

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          marinealways24posted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Noodles!

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             earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             ... and a noodly noo to you too!

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                marinealways24posted 14 years agoin reply to this

                Taking my noodle to bed.
                
                Have a good night Earnest.

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                   earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                   Good night Marine, sleep well!

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    lyricsingrayposted 14 years ago

    it's 9:46 eastern time right now.

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       marinealways24posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       9:49.

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    Bibowenposted 14 years ago

    Christians differ as to the nature of time. "There's no time like the present" probably sums it up about as good as any statement I've heard. The past is gone--it no longer exists and the future is beyond our grasp. As for God, He's eternal, but temporal at the beginning of the universe.

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    Marliza Gunterposted 14 years ago

    ELO DAVID...GOD'S TIME IS LIKE A CIRCLE...ENCLOSED...NEVER ENDING...YOUR TIME HERE ON EARTH IS LIKE A CAPSULE...A MEDICINE CAPSULE...ITS A COMPLETE UNIT...THAT'S WHY GOD ALWAYS SPEAKS OF THE FULLNESS OF TIME...THAT'S WHY THERE IS NO FAMILY GHOSTS HAUNTING A HOUSE...ONLY DEMONS...CAUSE OF THE FULLNESS OF TIME CONCEPT...THEY CANNOT MISS THEIR BUS TO HEAVEN OR HELL...THERE IS A LOG BOOK THAT ARE STAMPED ON YOUR ARRIVAL...TIME IS AN ESSENCE...LIKE VANILLA ESSENCE...IT IS SUBSTANCE OR MATTER...STUDY ATOMS AND MOLECULES (NUCLEAR ENERGY)...YOU WOULD FIND IT INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE...SCIENCE PHYSICIST...ALMOST LIKE ECTOPLASM...JUST THINNER...PS..ASK GOD HIMSELF TO TEACH YOU ABOUT TIME...YOU WOULD NEED PRESPICASTION FROM GOD...BE BLESSED...

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       (Q)posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       OBNOXIOUS...DENSE...LIKE A BRICK WALL...ONLY THICKER...

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          Marliza Gunterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          YIP...SMARTIE...UVE GOT IT EXACTLY RIGHT...TIS WHY GOD CANT KEEPS HIS EYES OFFA ME...ELO!!

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          Marliza Gunterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Son 8:9-10 ASV  If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver: And if she be a door, We will inclose her with boards of cedar.  (10)  I am a wall, and my breasts like the towers thereof Then was I in his eyes as one that found peace.
          
          OOH...OBIE 1 HAS TAUGHT ME WELL....

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    manlypoetrymanposted 14 years ago

    Just something we are stuck with...at this current point and time !

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    prettydarkhorseposted 14 years ago

    Time is a gift

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    goldenpathposted 14 years ago

    Time is a reckoning according to a species given the sphere or realm they currently inhabit.  When this world was near and worthy to literally exist near God's world time had little use according to our understanding.  It was mute and does complement the doctrine that God was, is and always shall be the same unchangeable God.  Upon our death our current reckoning will be altered as well.

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    china manposted 14 years ago

    Our idea of time may be why some people believe there is a god; we think of it as a straight line from an origin through 0 to an end, with us at the zero; or our clock set at some random point that we say is 0. This may also be why christians are convinced of an apocalypse, both the original sellers of the idea and the current buyers who dream for the end because of the myth of a hereafter, which I guess would be out of 'our' time as it is claimed to be infinate.
    
    Time cannot be a straight line, we know that it changes with speed and only exists relatively. I believe that, like numbers, a better way to look at time is as surfaces of time rather than isolated strings. We will need a mathematician to explain that, or an astronomer as they would appear to think that time would be different in another universe.
    
    God is a good idea, the idea of a higher authority would once have kept the behaviour of the highest human authorities in some kind of check. The idea of something better, higher, an example to follow, is not a bad idea. But it is just that, to create a character of a metaphysical being for a book is how you would explain the point of view of the idea, personify it. To believe that the character is real is to be at the level of my cat who runs round the back of the tv when a small creature he has been watching goes 'off screen'. To write words into the personified beings incarnate mouth is to try and assume whatever power comes from it; if god were real then who would dare speak for him, or her.

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    theirishobserver.posted 14 years ago

    Time is the journey between birth and death, how you move along that journey will determine whether your journey in the after life will be one filled with the scent of meadow flowers or the dust of coal as it burns in the great furnace of hell hope that helps

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    sneakorocksolidposted 14 years ago

    Time is relative. For us here on earth it's a measure. Jesus made it clear when he stated "I am Alpha and Omega." He is the beginnig and the the end so our concept of time is a very simplified. Heavenly Father is eternity and that means time in Heaven is relative to Heaven.

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    kessposted 14 years ago

    Time is that Which controls the  comingling of  that which are polar opposites.

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    errum fattahposted 14 years ago

    its 7;45..my time...lol!

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