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Forum: Theological Expressions
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What happens when we die? (Confused)
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Ah, science to the rescue again (Interested )
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Science cannot be placed on the same level as the Bible.
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Okay, how about a non-scientific answer to the above question? n/t (Interested )
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One or two entities?
Date: 2001, May 27
From: Interested

The same person, who is in the presence of the Lord, is not waiting on earth at the same time. While he is already in the presence of the Lord, to other people who are still on earth, it will be something in the future. After death we are outside time and space. So we could be somewhere, many, many millions of light years away and over there a few seconds may be many, many years on earth. Einstein has shown that time is relativistic and experiments have confirmed his theory. So the phrase "at the same time" in my first sentence above looses meaning when time advances in different rates under different conditions and when there is a great distance between two events. If you take one of a pair of identical twins and send him off into space at a speed approaching that of light and if after 50 years the twins meet again the one who was on earth will be 50 years older. But the one who went off into space would be very much younger, may be just a year older. His age will depend on how fast he travelled. So time passes at different rates under different conditions. Time is affected by speed, acceleration and gravity. If you try to synchronize two clocks, one on earth and the other in a far away galaxy, one of the clocks would have rusted and turned into powder even while you are trying to set the other clock. Hey, I am just starting on Einstein and Relativity and it is very difficult and abstract, may be even impossible. But it does show that the Bibilical revelation is amazingly accurate, though such concepts are beyond the grasp of the majority of people. "A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun." Isaac Watts.