GOD---A NAME FOR TIME

There has always been Time; and, all of humankind  in their time on the earth have worshipped the Creator in some way.

We experience time every millisecond of our lives.  We can never recover any of it, as Omar Khyam said.  Scientists have help us to know that millions and millions of years have passed since the Big Bang which they learned about less than 40 years ago.  No scientist has ever fully explained what existed before it happened; however, it must have been time for time was required prior to it happened in order to set up that which caused it. 
         
I know that there are more than a million Bible believers who will not accept that "time is what we call God" for they don't even believe there were dinosaurs or 'cave men' on this earth a few million years ago.  Strangely, there is proof about them but no proof about Genesis' creation story and even believe that it happened just a few thousand years ago.  But, it took God "time" to create earth, even just 7 days which is a measure of time. 

All of creation of the Universe has taken time, more than scientists can explain until they have in their hands the most distant part of creation.  It took time for such creation.

Humankind has never been able to prove that God exists.  The Bible and Koran and other religious documents are not proof.  The creation of all things of the Universe are not proof.  If God cannot be proved, but time is a part of our experience every minute of our lives, then time does exist without a doubt.  They do believe that time exists because they speak of "eternal life" and "life everlasting" and "the beginning" and "forevermore" and other phrases that acknowledge the existence of time before or "at the beginning" and that time will be after the Universe is no more.

We know that when astronauts are in space that they are aware of time.  Even the speed of light is measured in terms of time: "years" not "God."

In his latest book, Scientist Stephen Hawking has chapters about "time."  He says that all that he has learned has shown that time exists.  He described the passage of time as if it goes on and on in infinity; however, to him "infinity" is not a straight line.  To understand how he defines "time" you would take a circular item such as a wide rubber band or belt from your vacuum cleaner, Twist it once into a figure 8 and look at how one side of it never ends no matter how many times you slide your finger around it.  He uses an illustration as if the rubber band is a railroad track on just one side and no matter how fast or how slow the train goes, it never runs out of track nor needs to stop to crossover anywhere.  In the illustration, time is at the beginning, the middle and the end; however, there is no 'beginning' nor an 'end.'  For believers of the Bible who seldom believe science, the 'beginning' and the 'end' is called God. 

Perhaps the Bible writers who described God as noted above, needed to somehow define God, and somehow the only way to define God was to use the same measurement as they would measure Time.  With that, they might then say, "God is Time."

Those of us who respect science may still be waiting for the wisest of scientists to tell us what time is.  Perhaps they can never answer it except by using 'time' measurements such as 'infinity' to define it. 

I believe that Time did exist before matter existed.  Matter cannot be destroyed; it can only change.  Time would have needed to exist before matter and energy or there would have been "no time" for matter and energy to have been created.

"God" as an existing "One" can only be known by faith, just as scientific things such as electricity is because we all know that we wouldn't flip a light switch if we did not have faith that the energy of electricity  would cause the light or motor to come on.  When we reach to start our car in which we've put 15 gallons of gas, we are not sure that it will start because there might be something wrong with one of its thousand parts and its many processes that must happen in order for the car to start; our doubt is present when we reach to the key to start the engine---faith does not.  In the same way, we know by experience that time is because it passes and there is always evidence, even in our own bodies, that time passes, "moves on" and all that we do can cause it to "cancel" it, never. 

I believe that all that we call "God" is the essence of "time" so that would mean that "Time is what Christians and all who speak of God, are actually referencing. 

Time is God.  God is the name given by many for Time.