by greyeyesgabriel

Created on: July 10, 2008

Time is a relative concept, even biblically speaking. Let us think about this for a minute. God created the Heavens and the Earth in 7 days; however, my Bible does not have a time frame for how long that "day" was, just that day and night had past. If you read past Genesis you will also come across a passage that states that a day to God is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day. How long was that first day? Let us say for arguments sake that it was 24 hours. Then I say that God counted time in hours during creation but then excluded the rules of the passage of time for existence of man and woman in the Garden of Eden, right up until the consumption of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Then God invoked the history of man, and the passage of time was to be marked by seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, centuries, and millenniums. So, then is time not relative to even God? For the Ultimate Being, God, to be able to stop, speed up, slow down, or even end time, does that in itself not justify the argument that time is relative? Was man not created in God's image? Then if we are meant to be replicas of God then would that not make time also relative to us?

Haven't you ever been through an awful experience seemed to drag on for an eternity, but it only lasted a matter of minutes? When you get on the internet, doesn't it seem that time just flies by and the next thing you know it is 5 o'clock and you haven't started dinner yet? So, what makes time relative is the perception of time and will the many billions of people inhabiting the earth then there are many different perceptions of time. We even do different little things to try to control time. The ancient calendars of many civilizations were based on lunar cycles through the changing of the seasons, while our modern calendar is based on the earths cycles around the sun. So, perceptions have changed over the centuries on a global scale. Although other nations measure the passage of time in an absolute, we in America have decided to control the passage of time by instating the longest daylight savings time ever in recorded history, so that we get more hours of daylight in the evening. This also results in the sun coming up later in the morning. So, even the sun falls victim to the perception of time. I even know a woman that sets all of the clocks in her house ahead at different intervals, depending on how far ahead of schedule that she wants to be in certain rooms.

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