Quantum physics and Christianity

[Jethro Bodine]

Wrg,

I don't know what you hope to achieve on an English speaking forum by quoting this Greek text from Hebrews 1:3 (ESV). I happen to read and teach NT Greek, but on a forum like this, it behooves you to provide a biblical reference and translation.

Oz

Sometimes we likes to just have fun around here.
It was fun to plug what he wrote into a Greek/ English translator and then try to remember where that passage is in the Bible.

 

[OzSpen]

Sometimes we likes to just have fun around here.
It was fun to plug what he wrote into a Greek/ English translator and then try to remember where that passage is in the Bible.

 

[JohnDB]

I've wondered about that. It's easy to assume the first day, but Scripture also says that Jesus is the light of the world.

This "Light" was the plan of Jesus coming to die for our sins... which is why it is said that Jesus was crucified before the foundation of the world was put into place.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

See? Even the thing we humans thought was so sure and rock steady and unmovable (time) really isn't. There is only one sure and steadfast and unmovable, unshakable thing to plant your feet on--God and his kingdom.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Now you're talkin'!

 

[Pizza]

I think it's not so much about there being no time to God, but rather since he moves so much quicker than things on earth, time to Him passes by much quicker. That's what Einstein's theory of relativity is all about. He discovered that time is relative, not constant. Scientists up to that time had held time to be the constant of the universe (the one thing that never changes no matter where you're at and the thing which any and all things can be measured against). But he found out that the passage of time speeds up relative to something else that is traveling slower. Time is not the constant of the universe.

So, when the earth was being created the passage of time for God was relative to the speed by which he moves, while the passage of time for earth was relative to the slower speed by which we move. That means while time was ticking away for God in days during creation, time for earth was ticking away simultaneously in thousands of years. Time is not a universal constant. It passes by relative to how fast you are moving in relation to something else.

"8But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." (2 Peter 3:8 NIV)

That last paragraph is not what I was thinking. But it kinda is now.

Intellectual home run, sir.

 

[Pizza]

See? Even the thing we humans thought was so sure and rock steady and unmovable (time) really isn't. There is only one sure and steadfast and unmovable, unshakable thing to plant your feet on--God and his kingdom.

I really DID think the time was a constant, didn't understand how any 'flake' could think otherwise. THEN, I got bored after I tossed my TV out (it got hit by lightning in the two years I was finishing my degree in 2007/8) and I started to read Dawkins and Hawking, and started to watch Walter Lewin lectures - and realized how blind and simple-minded I was when I was thinking about physics.

Perhaps what we call the miracles of God are just examples of what He can do because He is not bound by space-time like we are. They are miracles to us, but just "what I do" to Him.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Intellectual home run, sir.

:nod

 

[Wrg1405]

Wrg,

I don't know what you hope to achieve on an English speaking forum by quoting this Greek text from Hebrews 1:3 (ESV). I happen to read and teach NT Greek, but on a forum like this, it behooves you to provide a biblical reference and translation.

Oz

Just trying to have a laugh/bit of fun.