If God is outside of time and all powerful, why did it take him 6 days (time) to create the universe?

[ericc]

This is never a popular opinion, but I’d like to suggest the possibility that God actually exists within time.

He does act in time e.g. he waited for Moses to make his appearance. But God existed before he created time i.e the universe.

 

[jcrichton]

This is never a popular opinion, but I’d like to suggest the possibility that God actually exists within time.

Hi!

Could you expand on that, what do you mean by existing within time, that God is limited to the temporal plane?

Maran atha!

Angel

 

[po18guy]

Think of it as six Divine acts of creation, expressed in time-associated human terms which are limited and imprecise.

 

[phil19034]

This is never a popular opinion, but I’d like to suggest the possibility that God actually exists within time.

It’s not popular because it breaks classical philosophy and physics. Remember, time and space are actually linked – we call this space-time.

If God exists within space-time, then God could not have created the universe.

In order to have created the universe, God must be outside of the space-time.

Therefore, God exists outside of space-time. If God exists outside of space-time, then God exists outside of time, and Heaven exists outside our universe.

As someone previously stated, God acts in time (i.e. he often waits for part of His Divine Plan to unfold), but God is still outside of time.

God Bless.

 

[Gorgias]

Itime and space are actually linked – we call this space-time.

If God exists within space-time, then God could not have created the universe.

In order to have created the universe, God must be outside of the space-time.

Therefore, God exists outside of space-time.

This.

If you disagree, sonofbarry, ask yourself “how do we define time”? In other words, how do we define the units of measure of time?

I’ll save you the trouble: we measure the basic unit of time (i.e., the ‘second’) in terms of the cesium atom. In other words, we define time in terms of stuff of the physical universe. If God created the physical universe from nothing, then time cannot pre-exist Him such that He exists “within time”.

 

[tgGodsway]

The more I read this statement the more I realize it contradicts itself. God was outside of time and so for Him it did not take anytime. He created time, He used 7, twenty-four hour days. It took 6 of man’s days.

 

[victrolatim]

He didn’t create a cheat code.

 

[tgGodsway]

What is a cheat code?

 

[jcrichton]

This.

If you disagree, sonofbarry, ask yourself “how do we define time”? In other words, how do we define the units of measure of time?

I’ll save you the trouble: we measure the basic unit of time (i.e., the ‘second’) in terms of the cesium atom. In other words, we define time in terms of stuff of the physical universe. If God created the physical universe from nothing, then time cannot pre-exist Him such that He exists “within time”.

Hi, Gorgias!

…when did man began to use the meter/measurement in reference to the cesium atom? Did he not use less precise methods? …as we learn/discover laws and mathematics we are able to fine-tune our understanding and our tech… but, as you’ve pointed out, we do so from the material which already existed after Creation.

Maran atha!

Angel

 

[grannymh]

If God is outside of time and all powerful, why did it take him 6 days (which is a measure of time) to create the universe?

The Catholic Church does not have doctrines on the material world which includes the universe. Do note that a Divine Creator God did create the material world. You can find that information in the first three wonderful chapters in Genesis.

 

[Gorgias]

The Catholic Church does not have doctrines on the material world which includes the universe. Do note that a Divine Creator God did create the material world.

Umm… that would be a ‘doctrine on the material world’, then, wouldn’t it?

 

[grannymh]

Umm… that would be a ‘doctrine on the material world’, then, wouldn’t it?

The material world was not created by a material being. Please check Genesis 1:1. Does it really say that "In the beginning when a member of the material world created the heavens and the earth?

 

[Benadam]

Creation isn’t just an event in the past. God’s act of creation happened and is happening. God is creating every moment. In this moment all the days of creation exist. For God sustains the existence of everything at every moment whether that thing is a creature made in the light of the first day or the sixth day. Every day of creation is happening now. Being outside of time means being in the all encompassing ‘now’ of eternity.