What is time? Is Einstein correct when he postulated that time is relative? Is time apart of creation itself and created by God for man? If so, then what are the ethics of time? Is there a proper and improper use of time, a right and wrong value and view of time?

1. Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything
beautiful in its time. Also
He has put eternity in
their hearts…

2. Psalm 90:10
The days of our lives are
seventy years; and if by
reason of strength they
are eighty years, yet their
boast is only labor and
sorrow; for it is soon cut
off, and we fly away.

3. Psalm 90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may
gain a heart of wisdom.

4. Ephesians 5:15–17
See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools
but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the
days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be unwise, but
understand what the will of the Lord is.

5. Colossians 4:5
Walk in wisdom toward those who are
outside, redeeming the time.

6. GOD IS ETERNAL & TIMELESS
The concept of time has no meaning
before the beginning of the universe.
This was first pointed out by St.
Augustine. When asked: what did
God do before he created the
universe? Augustine didn't reply he
was preparing hell for people who asked such
questions.” Instead, he said that time was a
property of the universe that God created, and
that time did not exist before the beginning of the
universe.

7. GOD IS ETERNAL & TIMELESS
God’s Name:
God’s Nature:

8. CREATED BY GOD
Genesis 1:3–5
3
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there
was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was
good; and God divided the light from the
darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the
darkness He called Night. So the evening and the
morning were the first day.

9. CREATED BY GOD
Genesis 1:14-15
14
Then God said, “Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heavens to divide the day from
the night; and let them be for signs and seasons,
and for days and years; 15 and let them be for
lights in the firmament of the heavens to give
light on the earth”; and it was so.

10. CREATED BY GOD
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
To everything there is a season, a time for every
purpose under heaven: 2 a time to be born, And a
time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck
what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a
time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to
mourn, and a time to dance; 5 a time to cast away
stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to
embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

11. CREATED BY GOD
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
6a
time to gain, and a time to lose; a time to
keep, and a time to throw away; 7 a time to
tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and
a time to speak; 8 a time to love, and a time to
hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

12. RECKONING OF TIME
The Julian Calendar (46 BC):
• initiated by Julius Caesar
• changed the beginning of the year to
"January" 1st
• solar calendar was very popular with the
"sun" worshippers of the day
• every month was named after a pagan "god”

13. RECKONING OF TIME
The Julian Calendar (46 BC):
• loses 1 whole day every 128 years
• Though commonly used until
the late 1500s it was eventually
rejected

14. RECKONING OF TIME
The Gregorian Calendar (590–604):
• initiated by Pope Gregory
• names and symbols of Julian Calendar kept
• based on the solar method
• continues in use to this day
• loses 1 day every 3000 years

15. RECKONING OF TIME
The Hebrew Calendar
• based on the Bible
• reckoned by the moon
• Incredibly accurate at keeping time –for
thousands of years -- keeping perfect time.
• called seder olam rabbah (book of the order
of the world)
• Jews regard 2013 as 5773 in a 6000 year
series of events leading to Messiah

16. PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
• Herbert Butterfield’s (Interpretation Of History)
observation:
Historiography
began with Moses

17. PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
• Georg Hegel (1770–1831)
a comprehensive philosophical
view of history
 "dialectic”
 "absolute idealism”
 "Master/Slave" dialectic

18. PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
• Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)
The Decline of the West
“The will-to-power operating
under a pure democratic disguise
has finished off its masterpiece so
well that the object's sense of
freedom is actually flattered by
the most thorough-going
enslavement that has ever
existed.”

19. PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
• Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)
“For the Age has itself become vulgar, and most
people have no idea to what extent they are
themselves tainted. The bad manners of all
parliaments, the general tendency to connive at a
rather shady business transaction if it promises to
bring in money without work, jazz and Negro
dances as the spiritual outlet in all circles of
society, women painted like prostitutes,

20. PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
• Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)
“the efforts of writers to win popularity by
ridiculing in their novels and plays the
correctness of well-bred people, and the bad
taste shown even by the nobility and old princely
families in throwing off every kind of social
restraint and time-honoured custom: all of these
go to prove that it is now the vulgar mob that
gives the tone.”
Hour of Decision (1933), as transl. by C.F. Atkinson (1942), p. 95

21. PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
• Arnold Toynbee (1889–1975)
10-vol. A Study of History
Toynbee explained decline
as due to their moral failure

22. PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
• Christopher Dawson (1889–1970)
"the greatest
English-speaking
Catholic historian
of the twentieth
century”

23. PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
• William Durant (1885 –1981)
11-vol. The Story of Civilization
“There have
been only 268 of the past 3,421
years free of war.”
“When liberty becomes license,
dictatorship is near.”

24. PURPOSE OF TIME
• Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our
days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
70 yrs. = 25,550 days
66 yrs. = 24,090 days

25. PURPOSE OF TIME
Ecclesiastes 3:1–15
11
He has made everything beautiful in its time.
Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except
that no one can find out the work that God does
from beginning to end. 12 I know that nothing is
better for them than to rejoice, and to do good
in their lives, 13 and also that every man should
eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his
labor—it is the gift of God.

26. PURPOSE OF TIME
Ecclesiastes 3:1–15
14
I know that whatever God does, It shall be
forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing
taken from it. God does it, that men should fear
before Him. 15 That which is has already been,
And what is to be has already been; And God
requires an account of what is past.

27. PURPOSE OF TIME
Ecclesiastes 12
1
Remember now your Creator in the days of
your youth, Before the difficult days come, and
the years draw near when you say, “I have no
pleasure in them”
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole
matter: Fear God and keep His commandments,
for this is man’s all. 14 For God will bring every
work into judgment, Including every secret
thing, whether good or evil.

28. PROVIDENCE
• 1636 Roger Williams, a religious exile from
the Massachusetts Bay Colony, named the
area in honor of "God's merciful Providence"

29. PROVIDENCE
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Prophecy
Leviticus 23
Daniel 9:24-27
Galatians 4:4