Sunday, October 15, 2017

A New Heaven and New Earth and The End of Time

We all know that Einstein has shown that space and time is one continuous flow of everything in this universe from the largest to the smallest galaxies 

This space-time mathematical model joins space and time into a single idea called a four-dimensional continuum, which is so unlike the non-relativistic classical mechanics, that uses Euclidean space, where time is treated as universal constant  independent of the state of motion of an observer.

But in a relativistic universe, time cannot be separated from the three dimensions of space.

While sitting down to ponder on this model on the working of our entire universe, I was thinking what happens when God destroys His entire creation when heavens will roll up and wrapped up like a scroll? 

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, the elements shall melt with fevent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up" (2 Peter 3:10)

"And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together (including time, space and matter as one as we only now know); and every mountain and island were moved out of their places" (Revelations 6:14)

This "rolling up like a scroll" is exactly the opposite of "in the beginning" precisely and exactly the opposite of the Big Bang theory of the beginning of the universe


I am now just wonder why do people speaks of "end times" rather than just say the end of the world or the end of the universe without including time?
 
Why did they include that canny expression "end of time" as well?

Did they actually know it or was it just a coincidence? I just wonder?

Cosmologists also believe the universe will collapsed together when the powers of indestructible gravity finally pulls them all together once again to just one singularity as it was in the beginning

This is what I like to coin it as The Big Collapse

This to me is very similar to the Big Bang postulated by cosmologists as the birth of the universe for every thing including the beginning of time.

There were also verses in the New Testament where God said "I am Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and The End", meaning He is the beginning of everything and the end of all things

(Revelation 1:8; 22:13)

What a mind blogging similarly between Christianity and modern Science, even though the Book of Revelation was written not long after the death of Jesus. I

This was clearly an inspired writing that is so similar to what Science now tells us.

But actually what I wanted to say here is that,  we can imagine matter or even space being destroyed because they are something we see or at least perceive them.

But how do we imagine time being also destroyed together, even if we try to imagine as hard as we try?

Before Einstein time was treated separately from space and matter; they were not related

Has anyone think or written about this thinking before? What is the picture or a scenario like where there is not even time? It would be completely void as it was first described

"And the earth was without form, and VOID; and darkness was upon the face of the deep" (Genesis 1:2).

But that is not the end.

A new universe will be born, probably not a physical one, but a spiritual heaven and earth where there will be no matter, space or time, all of which has a boundary pegged onto the tethers of each other

Once that limitation of time is removed then "time" shall be eternal

It will be well outside the boundaries of the laws of physics of even Einstein wrote. I believe this shall be the scenario.

The presence of water is considered by all scientists worthy their salt as the most important ingredient for the existence of any physical life anywhere in the universe

But a spiritual life in a new spiritual world would no longer require any water

"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were pass away; and there was no more sea" (Revelation  21).

This is just my thinking as I sit to ponder. 

I like my gentle readers to think over this and kindly write to me your views in my comment column.

Thank you for reading

Lim Ju Boo

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