gordon brown wrote:
>
> The subject of the beginning of time was discussed long before the
> discoveries of modern science. If I correctly recall my reading of
> Augustine's Confessions, Augustine addressed the question of what God was
> doing before He created the universe. Apparently skeptics of his day asked
> this with the intention of following it up by asking why He didn't create
> it sooner. Augustine indicates that some people answered that He was
> creating hell for those who pried into mysteries, but he disapproves of
> giving such an answer. Instead he says that the question is meaningless
> because God created time along with everything else, and so there was no
> such thing as time before the creation.
>
> Gordon Brown
> Department of Mathematics
> University of Colorado
> Boulder, CO 80309-0395
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, James W Stark wrote:
>
> > I have found nothing in science or the Bible that establishes with much
> > logical force that there was a beginning for time. It can be a useful
> > assumption, if one chooses to use it. I find that it creates too many
> > additional conflicts in my personal worldview, but I remain open to
> > questioning that assumption. Thanks for the feedback.
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Exactly. "When" does not really have a meaning for God as he always was
and always will be. Bert M.
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