The Eternalness of God

From Once Upon a Time" to Kingdom Come

 If I was to say to you that “God is Eternal” the first thing that would come to your mind is a God that had no end.  However, that would only reach one end of an infinite spectrum of the existence of God.  Because we as human being only perceive time as going in one direction (forward). Yet to understand God’s eternalness we would have to at least try to conceive a period before time insisted.

According to current cosmological theories, the universe, had a point when it wasn’t; and then BANG!! it was.  What that means is there was a finite point when time, space and matter came into existence. Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose who developed the space-time theorem of general relativity, and all respectable scientist today agree that there was a time when the universe did not exist. The Big Bang theory, science agrees almost universally is that period when the universe came into existence.

The Bible speaks of that time when universe came into existence.  And its cause, which brought the universe into existence.

It says in Genesis 1:1 in the beginning God (the cause) created the heaven and the earth (universe). Now since everything that has a beginning but have a cause, and nothing can cause itself to come into existence, the Bible teaches God created (brought into existence) the heavens and the earth (universe)

Now for God to create time, space and matter, He had to exist before even time, space or matter. So, then the Father, Son and Holy Spirit existed before the creation of time.  But didn’t you say that everything the exist has a cause? What then cause God?

Well, no, I said that everything that has a beginning has a cause. But God no beginning so God has no cause.  This is said to be the Aseity of God  and will be address aseity in  future attributes of God. However, for the sake of staying on track let just assume God’s Aseity that He exist in and of Himself.

As I was saying, Man has no problem (very little problem) perceiving the future part of eternality, even though we have no real knowledge of what the future holds, we can perceive a future out there beyond where we are right now in time and space. Since we have no power to dictate the future the limitations of what we know of the future is circumscribed by our own imaginations.

However those thing which happened in the past many of which we know are true we still have a limited remembrance of them. What happened yesterday my be very clear, a week ago maybe not as clear, a month or year and the facts of time become even more vague. And when we are asked to remember that precise moment in our past when our little bald heads forced it’s way through the canal of our mother’s womb, even though everyone of us has experienced it, not one of us can remember it. The very reason for this is that we have a beginning. In the natural, there exists for each of us a time when we were not, and therefore anything that happened before we were, we know nothing of. As we think back to our earliest memory, we find the closer we get to that time when we came into our natural existence, the less we can recall of our life. This is the nature of man but not of God.

God is Eternal, and the Eternalness of God is not limited by God futurity but is inclusive of all time, even inclusive of all time that has past. In Genesis 1:1 the Bible tells us that “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” Now the Hebrew word the Bible uses for heaven is Shamayim (Sha-Mah-yim) which is roughly translated as universe. Wikipedia Defines The Universe as everything that physically exists: the entirety of space and time, all forms of matter, energy and momentum, and the physical laws and constants that govern them.

If you can imagine a period when there was nothing that we are able to humanly perceive, a period when there was no mater, no energy, no momentum, no space, not even time before all that came into existence, even before that moment, God already was! I rarely quote the Message Bible however sometimes its clarity is deafening, look at how the authors of this bible expresses Moses’ most humbling revelation of God’s Eternalness. 

God, it seems you've been our home forever; long before the mountains were born. Long before you brought earth itself to birth, from "once upon a time" to "kingdom come"—you are God. Psalm 90:2 (Message)

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