yep... no past.. no future.. we are all gods :) or. "god"....

Let's all become Hindu's and peace will reign ?

No...kidding of course.

Hello Al,

What does the Bible say about time?

There is that one that starts, "Everything has a season..." or something like that.

Ludwig, I'm no scientist either, but as I know it time is measured by how long it takes for the sun to orbit the earth.

Hours minutes and seconds are simply ways of breaking it down, much like kilometers, metres and milliometers.

My understanding is that if one were to travel at the speed of light, then time would stop.

The bit I find hard to drasp is time and dates.

Today is the 7th july 2010, 906am. Or is it?

Considering modern time started 2010 years, 6 months and 7 days ago, can we be sure the records are accurate all that time?

After all, the first time recordings were most likely to have been a series of scratches on the wall.

We can look into the past any time we look up at the night sky. The time it takes for light from nearby planets to reach us, then the light-years for our nearest galactic neighbours to reach us; the formation of a star that we view tonight via telescope which occurred eons ago.

Just finished reading the following article:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/05/2944478.htm

""Most of what's in the universe are stars, are all parts of galaxies and the planets are too but in the very early universe before the galaxy was formed it was a different kind of place," he said.

"It's a very tantalising challenge to look back that far in time or that far away in space that we can see things as they were before the galaxy is formed."

BTW

I also believe that there is no such thing as the present, only what was and what will be.

For those who are genuinely interested:

For a few dollars you can purchase an excellent article about time that appeared in the June 2010 edition of Scientific American. See:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-time-an-illusion

The author, Craig Callender, is a professor of philosophy at University of California San Diego

http://sciencestudies.ucsd.edu/Faculty/callender.html

No other author discusses the time conundrum as lucidly as Prof. Callender. This is a MUST READ for people who think about time

As some have already said time only exists because matter exists and has spatial change or movement.

However there has been a past in matter as it identifies the state of the present, and it will form the state of the future. Outside of matter there is no time - it is eternal. Eternity is the state where God inhabits Isaiah 57: 15. With God there is only the eternal present. The beginning and the end of all activity in a universe of matter is witnessed perfectly by the Creator and all similtaneously, though He created all things to happen in time and space.

Genesis 1: 1 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. [space, matter, time, movement, valence chemistry, light, life and decay etc] all have a purpose in Time - Eccl 3: 1 - 6.