"Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God" (Psalm 93:1-3).
When I was 5 a year seemed like a long time. A year then was 1/5th of my life. At 30 the years seemed faster. A year now became 1/30th of my life. The year didn't change but the perspective did. 1/30th is a smaller portion than 1/5th.
As long as I grow older each individual year becomes less of my overall life experience and in the same way any amount of time that has an established beginnning and end will always become less significant as long as "time keeps marching on".
In Psalm 93 and numerous other verses in the Bible we find that God is from everlasting to everlasting, or eternal. Once we relize the implications of eterity a great many truths present themselves. It is these truths I wish to explore in this blog.
There are an awful lot of really big numbers. One very big named number is googol which is a 1 with 100 0's behind it. It looks like this:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000
The largest named number is googolplex which is 1 times 10 googol, or a 1 with googol 0's behind it. I'd write it out for you, but "not only would it be longer than the diameter of the universe, but, it would take more particles than are in the known universe to even write down the digits of a googolplex one particle per digit". (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
If I were to live to the ripe old age of a googolplex then 1 year in my life would be almost an infinatly small portion of the overall whole. Just think of 1 in
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000
time's 10 .
It is estimated that the universe is between 10 and 20 billion years old depending on who and what you read. Whether I agree with this or not is illrelevent. The thought I would like to leave you with is that even if the unviverse were 100 billion years old it would still have a beginning and it will have an end. It would still become insignificant against a bigger sum such as a googolplex, but even a googolplex of time is less than nothing in the scope of eternity which God is bigger than. Eternity cannot contain God and so it goes on from everlasting to everlasting.
We will dive deeper into this when I write again.
2 comments:
Good post, Michael. Welcome to the blogosphere. Eternity is a mind-boggling concept to be sure. God bless.
great writing on time.
time is one of those physical properties that we are bound by but God and eternity is not.
The Nature of Time
The age of the universe hangs on the very nature of the dimension of time, which we are just beginning to understand. Einstein's Theory of General Relativity states that we exist in more than three dimensions; time itself is a physical property and actually varies with mass, acceleration, and gravity.
There are atomic clocks installed at both the National Bureau of Standards at Boulder, Colorado, and at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England. Both are considered accurate to better than one-millionth of a second per year. However, the clock at Boulder ticks five microseconds faster per year than the one at Greenwich, England. Which one is correct? They both are! The one at Boulder is at an altitude of 5400 ft. above sea level. The one at Greenwich is only 80 ft. above sea level. The difference is caused by the fact that time is different due to the change in gravity. In 1971, J. C. Hafele and Richard Keating sent four cesium clocks around the world. The clocks on the eastward trip returned 59 nanoseconds behind the ones remaining at rest at the U.S. Naval Observatory. The clocks on the westward trip were 273 nanoseconds ahead. Accounting for the Earth's rotation and other gravitational effects, this was precisely what Einstein's formulas predicted.
from http://www.khouse.org/articles/1999/245
The universe is most devinantly not millions of years old though. If you were stating this as part of an example fine but if you actually are unsure of the age of the earth and the literal 'six day' creation of Genesis please visit Answers in Genesis>, and specifically The necessity for believing in six literal days>
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