What is Time? (Orthodox Christian Theology)

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[Oshianis]

I am not Orthodox,
Neither am I Christian,

With that being said,
Perhaps this is a divinely inspired
Understanding of time

[vickychen]

Blessed Dumitru Staniloae, pray for us!

[Simeonf]

አሜን ✝️🙏❤️🛐
What a beautiful and mind opening answer 🙏

[icywqws]

That’s probably one one the best explanations I’ve heard describing what this experience is

[bridgetbold]

God created time, time is movement. Growing and shrinking, Time is a teacher, time is inexorable, every second brings us closer to the return of Christ. Then time will have been completed.

[BeBlessed]

God is beyond time. Amazing answer. Comunion

[Cpuja]

So simple yet so profound. The Lord’s blessings to you all my brothers and sisters ☦️

[nothing-omfn]

I've always thought of time as just a perception thing if that makes any sense. Our "time" is how we perceive a sequence of events, and if theres no sequence of events, then there's nothing and time cant be used. So time is dependent on something and something can't exist without having "time"

[paulmarco]

Im So happy you talked about one of My kind ❤May God Look after you

[natanaellizama]

This is a very interesting view! Certainly in line with what I feel and think. That's why temporality and even spaciality feel like a burden. There's a lack of Being that is never captured in temporality. It makes sense that it is the felt distance between Being and creature.

An interesting question is whether this is a matter of perspective and lacks proper ontology. There are also thinkers who have proposed as much and it feels necessary. Given that there can be no actual ontological distance(separation) between God and creature, in God we are already co-eternally united. The separation that is time, is not ontological and doesn't participate from God's Being, but it does feel as such for us. It is a felt illusion from our internal fallen-ness from the Divine.

[kornelszecsi]

Time is measure of change, but this is another beautiful approach.

[BrigittePatrice]

Ehei Dogen has a wonderful poem called the Uji, excistance time.

[MACTRUQUE]

Excellent writing, wonderful channel, you are expanding the Church

[Immortal_swine]

Woah duuuude😱 step aside alan watts we got Orthadox church fathers at the table

[dirtstiff]

Movement through space is the essence of time

[CharlesSeraphDrums]

sort of. This question is thoroughly researched by Theodoros Metochites and Giorgios Pachymeres, the 14th century Byzantine philosophers. According to them, distance is not really the concept, but rather space and place as distinct, discrete qualities in the mind of God. As humans experience space, revealed to the intellect by the Logos through Scripture, we can determine the topological differences within that space, this giving us time.

[MRizzio]

Totally agree...Covenant Communion of the Most Holy Trinity. Great job!

[kentheengineer]

I can answer this question time is the record keeper

[lawrencevandenberg]

Yes, time is the last instant. Time is cumulative, fulfilling divinity.

[billcynic]

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around this, and how it applies to everyday human experience. Let's say I have an hourglass. I flip it over at t=0. I count my heart beating 30 times. The hourglass is now half full at the top, t=30. I count my heart beating 30 more times. All of the sand is now at the bottom of the hourglass, t=60. What do I call the journey between these points; and if "time" works, how does this relate to the incompleteness of communion? This isn't a trick question or "gotcha, " I genuinely want to know.