My mother mourned her parents for thirty seven years, and suffered from crippling arthritis for over eleven years, and it seems to me that much of our suffering here is related to our perception of time.
If God really is timeless, and lives in Augustine's eternal now, could He really understand how we feel?
Could He understand what time is like for someone in pain?
Could He know the difference between an hour of pain, and a day, a week, or a month in pain?
And if God really is timeless, and Jesus really was fully God and fully man, what would that mean in terms of the incarnation?
Would that mean that Jesus the man experienced the six hours on the cross, while God The Son never really experienced the passage of time at all (because to Him the whole ordeal--His Passion, His birth, and all the years in between-were all part of some eternal now He experiences all at once)?
I've been questioning my faith for a long time, and right now I need help trying to understand this.
First I'd like to know what the orthodox Christian doctrine is, and then I'd like to know if it's logically coherent.
Please help me.
If God really is timeless, and lives in Augustine's eternal now, could He really understand how we feel?
Could He understand what time is like for someone in pain?
Could He know the difference between an hour of pain, and a day, a week, or a month in pain?
And if God really is timeless, and Jesus really was fully God and fully man, what would that mean in terms of the incarnation?
Would that mean that Jesus the man experienced the six hours on the cross, while God The Son never really experienced the passage of time at all (because to Him the whole ordeal--His Passion, His birth, and all the years in between-were all part of some eternal now He experiences all at once)?
I've been questioning my faith for a long time, and right now I need help trying to understand this.
First I'd like to know what the orthodox Christian doctrine is, and then I'd like to know if it's logically coherent.
Please help me.
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