Opus 2025-182: Prime Time

We tend to be aware of the concept that there are four dimensions that affect us in every day life.  You have length, width, height, and the fourth dimension which is time.  I would like to suggest that, perhaps the first dimension, and the most important is time.  That’s my clever title that time is prime.

Why do I say this?  There was a book published in 1884 called Flatland.  It involves creatures who lived in only two dimensions – they had width and depth but no height.  I did not read the book.  I don’t even know if it’s still available.  But I never heard anybody mention the element of time.  Without time any creatures that might have existed in Flatland would have never moved forward.  There would have been no changes.  There would have been no life.

I don’t know if anybody’s ever written a book called Point. it would also be useless without time.

I am suggesting that the first dimension that we should talk about is time and not the other three.  It is time which makes the other three have any significance.  It is time that makes us into more than just oil on canvas.  Time is the essence of life.

When we think of God as being eternal, we always have to deal with this issue of how He relates to time.  Is God outside time?  If He is can He be classified as alive?  Is He inside time?  If so, could He be classified as God?  And so on. The questions keep coming.  We may not have time for the answers.

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