Something of a Joke for Dorky People

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So, with all this business of creation going around online and differently in my Maimonides class, a thought. So if each of the 6 days of creation took longer than one of our days- then how do we know they didn't take so long that the whole biblical time period was still the day of the creation of man (going with the first creation story's numbering, since that works better, and seems to be the one everyone works from- how Do you harmonize the second one? I know it's doable, never tried it myself. Guess I should.), and this currently is G-d's Shabbat- and That's why G-d hasn't been interfering in the world much lately: it's against whatever qualifies as melakhot for G-d.

That said, this involves accepting a G-d who exists in time, which I'm not ready to do. For G-d to be omnipotent/omnipresent/omniscient, G-d pretty much has to surpass all those dimensional limitations- and Time is just one of them. But well- the idea amused me.

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G-d doesn't have to change, because G-d encompases all of G-d's states at once, even though which aspects that people see might seem to change over time. This fits well with G-d as "ehyeh asher ehyeh" which I've heard translated (somewhat liberally) as "I am what I will be", which I think is a fabulous conception of a timeless G-d. Or maybe not so much timeless as so full of time that it becomes irrelevant to G-d.

Perhaps (and this is an idea that I haven't thought through at all- just came to me) G-d sheds time almost? G-d continuously creates the world by emitting time? But then what about before time? That would involve a change in G-d, which is problematic.