As mentioned earlier by my fellow catechumen James Thursday evening there was quite a crowd gathered at my home.

I felt a little out of place discussing this subject with Dr. Suketu Bhavsar a rather brilliant Ph.D. in Theoretical Astrophysics, but I did anyway.

Basically he is teaching a course at the University of Kentucky concerning time travel. This sparked my interst and we engaged in a dialogue describing his views and some of the concepts and questions posed by students.

One student who is a budding philosopher brought God into the equation, asking did God create time and then the universe or was time there before the creation of the universe. Which is an intersting question to posit. I myself really only entertian two notions in the area of God and time.

ONE: Time does not actually exist. It is a construct of human intellect to reconcile our linear existence with a non-linear universe. Or rather we are creations that were meant to be eternal; since the fall of man our eternal natures have been sullied and we are forced into a linear life that is contrary to our original purpose. So we have created the idea of time to deal with the disparity between what we intuit should be, and what actually is.

TWO: That time is a bi-product of the existence and soverignty of God. As my friend Kevin Basil has once stated, he favors a creation view that includes evolution, the only problem for him is that for evolution to function chaos must be present. Unfortunately the presence of God is the total absence of choas.

That being said, the concept of time as we know it today is a natural manifestation of God. Time orders things and events, without it there would be chaos; time flows from God, so God is not in our out of time he is the source of all that is: God is the fountainhead of all reality and time.

Anyway, I am an artist and writer, so if you have problems with my views of time and space in relation to God, please let me know where I am erring. I will let you guess which one of these ideas I am currently favoring.