Into the Wardrobe

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!

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.

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.

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.