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Time is the subject of several of the most enigmatic parables, such as the parable of the vineyard workers.<ref>Matt 20:1-16.</ref>  The workers measured their value and expectation for compensation in terms of time, but the master compensates the workers independent of time.  The parable teaches the power of [[God]] to forgive the person who repents late in life as easily as the person who finds God as a young man.  But the parable also provides insight on the timelessness of God in contrast with the time-obsessed nature of man.
 
Time is the subject of several of the most enigmatic parables, such as the parable of the vineyard workers.<ref>Matt 20:1-16.</ref>  The workers measured their value and expectation for compensation in terms of time, but the master compensates the workers independent of time.  The parable teaches the power of [[God]] to forgive the person who repents late in life as easily as the person who finds God as a young man.  But the parable also provides insight on the timelessness of God in contrast with the time-obsessed nature of man.
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Time provides a basis for people to frame their outlook on their own lives, dividing it, for example, into the past, present and future.  But the Bible suggests a possibly different reality, as in [[Jesus]]'s observation that "the last will be first, and the first will be last."<ref>Matt. 20:16 (spoken in the context of time).</ref>
    
The "arrow of time" in physics describes how disorder in nature increases with time, which is an asymmetric or directional aspect of time.  This suggests a connection between time and [[entropy]].  Space lacks this type of asymmetry.
 
The "arrow of time" in physics describes how disorder in nature increases with time, which is an asymmetric or directional aspect of time.  This suggests a connection between time and [[entropy]].  Space lacks this type of asymmetry.
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