A Thought Experiment…some fun

[Alive]

How was God occupied in eternity past prior to Genesis?

Did He work?

[Justin Adams]

12 minutes ago, Alive said:

How was God occupied in eternity past prior to Genesis?

Did He work?

Since He had 'time on His hands' before time began, He probably was thinking up the amazing Creation He would 'one day' bring into being. The shear intricacy of life begs the question of how long it took Him to fashion it all. We deal in straight lines mostly and 90 degree corners. God deals in all the amazing shapes we can imagine and then some. The colors and the ideas are beyond us to fathom most of the time even though we put them under a microscope to see. The DNA strands stretch from her to the moon and back many times just for one person.

I see our God as being the very epitome of Creation and I doubt there was a 'time' when He was not creating something or other. We tend to be like that as we are His Imagers, so that gives us a good start. Imagine how 'long' it will take Him to explain everything to us when we ascend on High to be with Him. Mind boggling!

[Starise]

5 minutes ago, Justin Adams said:

God deals in all the amazing shapes we can imagine and then some.

I realized this the last time I went to WalMart

 

On a more serious note- I see the word work in this context as creation. It was fun and what He wanted to do. No one to tell Him how to do it. This is an example to all of us who want to attempt to create something. Just leave us alone and maybe we will come up with something. I see work in the human context as often counter productive. It's about a reward not a job.

No comparison to God's creation. There is none other so deserving of the title as Him. He took as long as He wanted to. Owed no explanation to his creation, yet there are glimpses of what He has done. He takes variations on a theme to extremes no one could have imagined. Just look at 'us' for an example. 

[Alive]

Later---I have a job for this week. Probably back at around 1pM CT.

[The_Patriot21]

Played solitaire and dreamed up annoying somg lyrics to annoy parents like "im a gummy bear" and "what does the fox say"

And who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?

[Starise]

The whole idea of time .vs eternity itself throws me for a loop ( no pun intended there ). 

[Justin Adams]

Just now, Starise said:

The whole idea of time .vs eternity itself throws me for a loop ( no pun intended there ). 

Time is a construct within eternity.

[LearningToLetGo]

Infinity comes to mind. We have the word but can't really comprehend the meaning. God is infinite. ALL created beings are finite. That means the gulf between us and God is the same as between the archangels and God, despite the vast gulf between us and archangels. God truly is awesome.

Edited November 9, 2021 by LearningToLetGo

[missmuffet]

4 hours ago, Alive said:

How was God occupied in eternity past prior to Genesis?

Did He work?

I don't know. Does it matter?

[Sower]

2 hours ago, Starise said:

The whole idea of time .vs eternity itself throws me for a loop ( no pun intended there ). 

I can dwell on eternity in the future and not be totally confounded. But I can only do that in terms of time. A few years ago I began to dwell on " eternity past", or like Josheb stated, the eternity that precedes or transcends this creation. The more I thought going back, billions trillions to the nth degree,( realizing time has no effect on The Great I Am), I realized I did not have the capacity to go back back back back back because there is no beginning, there is no wall to come to, there is no end. My / our minds I believe do not have the capacity to grasp, only to wonder. Thinking on it caused me mental shut down. I try not to think on it much anymore, and accept my inability to ( imagine) an answer, any answer. It reinforces my comprehension of Gods awesomeness.