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Time in Heaven?

Comprising most of Lewis' writings.
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re: Time in Heaven?

Postby westsands410 » July 28th, 2006, 4:31 pm

I suspect that time is going to be there in the afterlife, but not in the same form as it is here; I think it might be rather as I perceive it during my dreams - that we will be able to slow time down or speed it up, and that we will not be limited to travelling through time in one direction. I think it will probably become a 'normal' dimension for us, like the three we have already - we'll be able to move through it as we move through space. But it's all just conjecture!
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re: Time in Heaven?

Postby chad » July 29th, 2006, 10:22 am

Wow westsands that's a cool idea I like it. Maybe the experience of time and non-time (or whatever spiritual atmosphere heaven provides for time) might be the experience of our animal part and our spirit part finally at one. Presently there is a kind of division or conflict between our body and soul. The body is decaying and so is not fully brought into a pure and constant experience of the 'spiritual' unseen world. But one day body and soul will be united, and naturally that will change the way we experience time but in no way will mean that we cease to experience it. Thank you for the musing, it is like heavenly manna :-) - makes you hungry for the God who sent it.
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Postby rusmeister » July 30th, 2006, 3:59 pm

"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
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Postby David » July 31st, 2006, 12:24 am

Seems like I said this somewhere else, but God sees all points of time at once. Time is a continuum in which we live, as mortals, but God does not live in time. So it seems to me that whatever talk there is of time passing in the Bible, or of "an hour's silence in heaven" (that's in Revelation, I think) it is anthropomorophic--given to us in human terms so we can understand but not "literal." God sees all points of time existing at the same time. Lewis says this at the end of The Great Divorce. Don't have my copy with me but will look it up and post later.
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Re: re: Time in Heaven?

Postby Bill » July 31st, 2006, 1:35 pm

Time is the fire in which we burn!

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Postby rusmeister » July 31st, 2006, 3:41 pm

"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
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Postby Bill » July 31st, 2006, 9:48 pm

Time is the fire in which we burn!

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Postby AllanS » July 31st, 2006, 9:49 pm

“And turn their grief into song?" he replied. "That would be a gracious act and a good beginning."

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Postby WolfVanZandt » August 4th, 2006, 7:06 am

Yes, light is connected to time. In our universe, everything is connected to time.

Time is a characteristic of our universe and it is the metric by which intervals of that characteristic are measured. Matter exists in time, so I can't conceive of a material (even glorified) body being outside of time. But I suspect that or spirits will be free to operate independently of our bodies in heaven and they are timeless. Still, activity requires time since it is a progression thrgh time, so there will have to be time in heaven - maybe a different time, but time anyway - and if they thoughtof the implcations, I wonder if anyone would really want time to be no more. You wouldn't even be able to brush your teeth.
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Postby rusmeister » September 14th, 2006, 2:19 am

"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
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Re: re: Time in Heaven?

Postby Stanley Anderson » September 14th, 2006, 2:17 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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