Editing Time (section)

==== Time in Abrahamic religions ====
In general, the Islamic and [[Judeo-Christian]] world-view regards time as linear<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rust |first1=Eric Charles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AcSw6GDlLVwC |title=Religion, Revelation and Reason |publisher=Mercer University Press |year=1981 |isbn=978-0-86554-058-3 |publication-date=1981 |page=60 |quote=Profane time, as [[Mircea Eliade|Eliade]] points out, is linear. [...] In the Judaeo-Christian religions – Judaism, Christianity, Islam – history is taken seriously, and linear time is accepted. |access-date=20 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403232350/https://books.google.com/books?id=AcSw6GDlLVwC |archive-date=3 April 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> and directional,<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Betz |editor1-first=Hans Dieter |title=Religion Past & Present: Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kjIOAQAAMAAJ |volume=4 |edition=4 |publisher=Brill |publication-date=2008 |page=101 |isbn=978-90-04-14688-4 |quote=[...] God produces a creation with a directional time structure [...]. |year=2008 |access-date=20 August 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924154435/https://books.google.com/books?id=kjIOAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> beginning with the act of [[Creation myth|creation]] by God. The traditional Christian view sees time ending, teleologically,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lundin |first1=Roger |last2=Thiselton |first2=Anthony C. |author-link2=Anthony Thiselton |last3=Walhout |first3=Clarence |title=The Promise of Hermeneutics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Y2F6rSq9VMC |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |publication-date=1999 |page=121 |isbn=978-0-8028-4635-8 |quote=We need to note the close ties between teleology, eschatology, and utopia. In Christian theology, the understanding of the teleology of particular actions is ultimately related to the teleology of history in general, which is the concern of eschatology. |year=1999 |access-date=20 August 2015 |archive-date=19 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919095555/https://books.google.com/books?id=3Y2F6rSq9VMC |url-status=live }}</ref> with the [[Christian eschatology|eschatological]] end of the present order of things, the "[[Eschatology|end time]]". Though some Christian theologians (such as [[Augustine of Hippo]] and [[Thomas Aquinas|Aquinas]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Staley |first=Kevin M. |date=2006 |title=Omniscience, Time, and Eternity: Is Aquinas Inconsistent? |url=https://www.anselm.edu/sites/default/files/Documents/Institute%20of%20SA%20Studies/4.5.3.24_32Staley.pdf |journal=The Saint Anselm Journal}}</ref>) believe that God is outside of time, seeing all events simultaneously, that time did not exist before God, and that God created time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barr |first=Stephen M. |date=February 7, 2020 |title=St. Augustine's Relativistic Theory of Time |url=https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/augustines-push-against-the-limits-of-time/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240415085520/https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/augustines-push-against-the-limits-of-time/ |archive-date=15 April 2024 |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Church Life Journal |language=en-US |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Selzer |first=Mark Albert |title=Augustine on Time: Human Time, Divine Eternity, and Why the Former is Really the Latter |url=https://www.csueastbay.edu/philosophy/reflections/2009/contents/mark-selz.html |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=California State University, East Bay |language=en |archive-date=15 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250115122951/https://www.csueastbay.edu/philosophy/reflections/2009/contents/mark-selz.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the [[Old Testament]] book [[Ecclesiastes]], traditionally ascribed to [[Solomon]] (970–928 BC), time is depicted as cyclical and beyond human control.<ref>Ecclesiastes 1:4–11</ref> The book wrote that there is an appropriate season or time for every activity.<ref>Ecclesiastes 3:1–8</ref>