Starlight and Time
Beginning with Einstein’s whacky Special Theory of Relativity, Genesis time entered the madhouse of modern cosmological theoretical space-time. First they said that the stars were expanding and therefore there must have been an initial cause, the Big Bang. Next the speed of light was found to be finite and variable. Then they said the furthest star was about 13.5 billion light years away so the age of the universe had to be 13.5 billions of years old. Einstein and others took the theory further. In his relativist universe, space and time are interchangeable. The further we look out at stars in space, the further back in time we are observing. Einstein was a Wellsian time-traveller, or, as it was said, “All time is eternally present.” But as T.S. Eliot put it, ‘If all time is eternally present - all time is unredeemable.’
‘And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years. To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the Earth. And it was so done. And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night, and the stars.’ (Gen. 1:14-16)
If, however, the light from the sun, moon and stars, no matter their distances from Earth, those that we can see every day with the naked eye and through telescopes, were made visible on Earth before Adam was created, as revealed in Genesis above, then no such delayed billions of years of star-time exist or ever existed for mankind. In other words, God created the universe with one time-zone overall, a 24-hour Earth-universe time zone. Moreover,
‘And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and upon the Earth distress of nations bewildered by the roaring of the sea and waves….; for the powers of heaven will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming upon a cloud with great power and majesty.’ --- (Luke: 21:25)
So, does this prophesy not confirm Genesis star-time, with the shaking stars immediately visible on Earth on the day the Lord wills it? Try harmonising this prophesy with Einstein’s and Fr Paul Robinson's relativity’s space-time. If God were to make signs by way of the stars, as he prophesised, then, according to Einstein’s modern light-year timing, mankind would have to wait years to see them all ‘shake’ as the Bible says they will. Just as God made the stars visible from Earth at creation with no time-lag, so will he make their shaking visible in the end of the world.
Then there is that state without physical time called ‘eternity,’ the ‘duration of what is altogether unchangeable,’ what subsists by its essence with no kind of succession, without beginning or end, and without the possibility of either. Such eternity belonged only to God, but when He created mankind, after our deaths, it becomes the future for all.