WHEN TIME BEGAN

Time requires a clock and to initially set a clock, time must begin, or at least have a frame of reference. This commentary attempts to reveal the ‘clock’ and when it was originally set.

This year, according to the calculations based on the biblical studies by rabbis, there are two sets of numbers based on the genealogies of the patriarch’s that differ by about 1700 years. In modern times, now (2023) would be year (Latin; Anno Mundi) A.M. 5784.

Anno Mundi is ‘the year of the world.’ It seems that 5784 years have expired since the world began. That seems such a short time considering that evidence exists that there were things before time began.

So, rather than question the existence of those creatures, perhaps time should be the question!

There is an inscription in the Ballybough Cemetery in Ireland that reads ‘built in the year 5618.’ That cemetery was established in A.D. 1857, hence based on that date now would be 2023, and it is, so at least since 1857, Anno Mundo time would be the same as now.

Ancient time is based on one of two things: (1) growth of trees (dendrochronology) and (2) carbon decay (carbon-14 half lives in the tissues of what were once organisms).

Therefore, time is based on the growth of organisms as well as on the death of organisms. What I will call ‘Tree Time’ (dendrochronology) applies only to trees that have not yet decayed, so the most ancient time is based on carbon dating of the decay rate of carbon-based organisms.

All measurements have a degree of accuracy (inaccuracies) as is the case with dendrochronology and carbon dating.

Tree dating is only as accurate as 6000 years because that is about the age of the oldest known tree in existence. In theory, that tree could have been one of the original trees based on Anno Mundi. It remains alive and is still growing to this day.

The Bible begins with the ‘beginning.’

“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1), not necessarily the Cosmos and the Earth, but space and matter, or as the Hebrew indicates, the lofty and the firm. The ‘firm’ is surely matter and the ‘lofty’ the space in which matter exists.

The ‘beginning,’ in that verse, is literally of the ‘first rank.’ God began to create order and the subsequent periods are the different processes in that order and are rankings; first things came first and other things according to their rankings. God was making order from nothing.

The ‘clock’ and the ‘calendar’ were not created until the fourth rank — the Sun and Moon, respectively. There were no years and days until sometime after the fourth ranking of creation. Hence, the use of the term ‘days’ is ambiguous, considering that the Book of Enoch uses the word, ‘aeon’ (ages).

So, when did time begin? When the Moon and Sun were created?

Genesis is about generating, not decay. Time is based on decay, is it not? Before the Sun and Moon, there was essentially no time because there were no ‘instruments’ to measure time. How long did it take for each step in the creation? That is unknown because there was no measurement of time.

The Hebrew word, ‘yom’ is used for any amount of time whether it be a day, year, or even continually (Strong 2006). Yom means nothing more, according to that source, than warming.

All processes begin by warming, followed by an activity, ending in equilibrium after cooling. Thus, the generation of heaven and earth are two processes consisting of seven steps in a certain order.  

Chapter one seems to be the order of things in the invisible realm and chapter two, the visible. Hence, heaven and the earth. The fact that there are kinds in chapter one means nothing more than there are things that cannot be seen that reside in another realm.

God knew mankind before the foundation of the world, as is written… “He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world” (Ephes 1:4). Mankind was conceived as having dominion (Gen 1:26) over the other kinds before the foundation of the world. That refers to chapter one when God made Adam in His Image (Hebrew; Selem; Gen 1:27). That Image was a ‘shadow’ (or phantom; ibid).

Ironically, the gender of the male was ‘Adam,’ but the gender of the female was ‘Issa’ (Adulteress). God knew her destiny.

When God made mankind in His Image was when man was chosen to be loved; not just a few men but all mankind (John 3:16). Mankind was conceived in that phase of the Creation process. His ‘substance’ was a ‘shadow’ or ‘fragment’ of what would later be the material image just as Plato may have implied in the Allegory of the Cave.

The material image came later when God added to the shadow its physical substance (Gen 2:7) and breathed life — the soul — of man into his body. It is implied much later that the soul is the exact volume of the body but without mass. That is derived from the baptism of Jesus when, “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape” (Luke 3:22).

Hence, the invisible bodily shape of Adam was formed before the bodily shape and without an organism, there was nothing about Adam that would decay.

Essentially, ‘glorification’ is without corruption (decay) and Adam was made like the glorious image and without any substance that would decay.

Eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, at that instant, was when Adam (both the man and woman) began to die. Time began for them, and it was measured for ‘Adam’ as 930 years. That could mean either only the male Adam or both Adama. Either way, sacred literature makes their lifetimes about equal.

My hypothesis is that time began when the organisms began to decay. Hence, the decay of Adama was 930 years before they withered away. Their carbon-base was depleted in 930 years. I submit that time began when carbon-14 could be measured. Live tissue absorbs carbon-14 into it; once the organism dies the carbon-14 begins to decay into carbon-12. Time is measured by how much carbon-14 remains in an organism.

‘Sin’ would be with the onset of carbon-14. Perhaps before sin, the flesh of mankind would not absorb carbon-14 but the other kinds could. The reason for that is because mankind was different, having dominion over the other kinds. A glorious body, by definition, would not be able to absorb carbon-14 because it decays and thus would not be glorious. Hence, decay may have begun when mankind lost glory, became inglorious, and would gradually corrupt over time. Adam and his mate both withered for almost a millennium.

So, when did time really begin? Certainly not in the Garden because it was Paradise in heaven. Adam and Eve were cast out of the heavenly Paradise into the world (Gen 3:24). Perhaps the Garden was not of this world but a ‘Garden of Living Souls’ in another realm that God had prepared for us. So, all the while Adama were enjoying Paradise in heaven, the Garden in the world was decaying. Carbon-dating would be able to measure the decay on Earth but not in heaven.

Time began, perhaps, when Eve began to multiply, thus using carnal knowledge gained from the tree of life: 

¹ And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man from the Lord.” ² And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. ³ And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. (Gen 4:1-3)

 Eve began to multiply; she alone without the male, had become dominant. As the ‘mother of all living’ (Gen 3:20), she, not the male, would have the dominant gene, and it would be her that would produce the kind called ‘Adam.’ Hence, after that time, all of us are Eva’s in that it is her mitochondrial DNA that defines us!

The male Adam saw Eve have carnal knowledge for Cain was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12). Cain was not a ‘man’ (Adam) but another kind of existence, (‘Eres). Then the Serpent dispensed his ‘fruit’ onto the ground (adam) as if it was Adam’s seed. It is implied therein that God had not planted Cain in the ground like Adam, but Eve and the Wicked One planted their own garden and it was Cain that multiplied his awful seed. With the birth of Cain, he was the ‘Second Adam’ in contrast to Jesus’s, the ‘Last Adam.’ (1 Cor 15:45).

Since Adam is both the ground and the man, then Adam’s dust was sprinkled with carbon-12, ironically generated in the hottest of the hot stars. He was of carbon-12 not radioactive carbon-14.

I submit that time began with the ‘Second Adam’(Cain) as a new world unfolded with him as the ‘plant’ replacing Adam. Adam was transplanted from the Garden in Heaven to the garden in the Land of Nod and there he and his mate began to die.

“And in the process of time; it came to pass” (Gen 4:3).

Process is first mentioned alongside carnal knowledge. The rankings of the processes of Creation were an ordering. Therein ‘yom’ specifically refers to time. Time is the rate of decay of the carbon-14 in organisms. Carbon-14 is ‘radiocarbon’ because it is radioactive. Radiation is the death ray. Carbon-14 is unstable and degenerates… opposing generation, or genesis.

Lucifer is the ‘Bringer of Light.’ You would think that he brings truth, but not so, he brought death, and perhaps carbon-14 is what Lucifer brought as his invisible ‘light.’

With that reasoning, does it not make sense that time began with sin? Does that not explain why there were dinosaurs and sub-human creatures that were on Earth long before us?

Time was not created for the animals but for man, specifically the alien man, Cain, whose name means ‘to create,’ obviously a new species that have devolved into modern man.

Here again, time measures decay, not just of one individual but all of us beings who are from Cain. Our days are numbered, not from Adam, but from the instant of original sin, and Cain is the real genetic ‘Adam’ not adama themselves.

The true genetic ‘Adam’ is Eve, when time began with the sin of the woman, afterward called ‘Eve.’ No wonder mitochondrial DNA is the accurate measurement of the beginnings of our inglorious kind!

How long shall mankind devolve to decay all the way? Until the end of time.

The family of upright man (adama) would have existed long before time began, and his soul before the foundation of the world… before there was carbon even in existence — eons ago.

The real ‘clock’ is not the Sun but carbon-14 that Lucifer would have created to be the ‘Bringer of Light.’

Therefore, the obvious conclusion is that sin set the radioactive ‘clock’ and it began when life was reset with the introduction of sin. Only wise men, homo sapiens, know sin, so the only answer to dying is to, “Marvel not; you must be born again” (John 3:7).

Anno Mundi should not be the beginning of the world, but the onset of man’s decadence. There were things before time, and the souls of men were there. From the beginning to the ending of His Creatures, there was only God and those who were made in His Image. Time began with us creatures who were like the ‘Creature.’

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