Of God and Time

In the metaphysical sense we are only able to conceptualize time in a linear way. This necessarily impacts how we view the world around us. Time, in its basic form, is defined as a methods of measuring rates of change. A second, for example, is little more than the amount of time necessary for a particular released from a certain atom due to molecular decay to travel one meter. Time, then, is little more than a scalar quantity used to measure the movements of three dimensional objects through three dimensional space.

We conceptualize time on a grand scale. The earth rotates around the Sun at a specific rate. We subdivide this rate to the minutest form and organize our own movement based on this celestially predictability. Every derivation of time is necessarily linked to the denomination of a second.

If we conceptualize time in a linear fashion, can we, then, define eternity?

Logically, based on our perspective of the linear nature of time, eternity is time in an infinite quantity. However, this definition presupposes the linear definition of time.

How do we conceive of God and eternity on this basis?

If we know that God is omnipresent, then time, from the prospective of omnipresence, cannot be linear. A linear under standing of time is diametrically opposed to the concept of omnipresence.

For example, we understand God as having one being, concurrently present everywhere and every time we are capable of perceiving our surroundings from our linear perspective. If God exists in a way that is ever-present, a linear conception of time cannot apply. If it did, God could not be omnipresent.

Therefor, linear time is wholly unique to our universe. This does not suppose that time can or may exist by reference of some other being, just that our linear conception of time cannot apply with reference to God.

Eternity from our prospective, then, must be redefined in terms of a God-like perception. In this frame of reference, linear time cannot apply. Eternity, therefore is the absence of time and is necessarily timeless.