Ok, so I was listening to an apologetics lesson on the eternal nature of God tonight on my loooong drive home from Michigan. The speaker was explaining that God operates outside of time and space and is therefore not affected by either. God created time and space, what we call the "time space continuum".
Now as I understand it, Einstein taught us that light and time are related, or simply stated, the presence of light indicates the passage of time. This makes sense to me for several reasons. We measure the passing of a day by the rising and setting of our great light, the sun. We measure objects in space by the light, and color of light, that they emit. It has been hypothesized that if an object could be accelerated faster than the speed of light, it would travel backwards in time.
Now, imagine a universe with no light. I mean nothing but pure, utter, unadulterated darkness. How would we measure time? There would be no day and night, no heaven and earth, no anything without the presence of light in our lives. The Bible tells us in John 1:7 that John gave a witness of "...the Light, that all men through Him might believe." It is interesting that God is often referred to as the "Light" in the Bible. The greek work used was "Phos", which literally means "to shine by rays". Given this information one can only conclude that God is the one and only, true and unquestionable, source of all light.
I believe God created the heaven and the earth. This means the sun, stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae, etc, etc, were all initiated by God. Continuing this though process one could deduce that if God = Light and Light = Time, then logically one would make the jump that God = Time and therefore God is eternal because He exists outside the linear boundaries of Time.
Something great about true science is that even secular scientists frequently prove there is a God while shooting for something completely different. For Einstein, rather than calling the beginning of the universe "creation", he assigned it to the "universal constant". Scientists are still looking for the "God Particle", also called Higgs Boson, that creates matter from nothing. This is the only "particle" that has never been observed.
In conclusion I encourage you today to stop and consider that everything about the world we live in points to a creator who has told us that even though He made our whole universe, He still has time to listen to and answer our simple prayers.
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