When did Time begin? Before or At the Same Time as the Universe?

no one knows for sure.

I believe (although I could be wrong) that time started at the same time as the universe started. Without time, notions such as 'before' are meaningless, so there is no meaningful answer to 'what happened before the universe existed'.

There are theories that the universe is in a constant cycle of big bangs and subsequent big crunches, but it's all a bit theoretical at the moment.

I'm not by any means an expert on this, so feel free to correct any mistakes I may have made.

Let me start by saying time is not a human concept. The labels we give time - minutes, day, weeks, years - and how we humans organize time are human creations. Time however does exist separate of human beings.

Things in our universe happen in a sequence. A glass does not fall to the ground, shatter, appear back in the table, reassemble itself and then rise back up to the table. Also, all those things don't happen at the exact same time. That is the phenomenon of time. Things happen, in a sequence, one after another.

And the prevailing scientific thought is that time, as part of spacetime continuum (as opposed to the measure of time we humans made), began with the formation of the universe.

Since scientist have only work backwards to 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000001 of a second after the Big Bang, they still don't have all the answers.

And even with the Big Bang, they have only managed to prove that all observable, testable phenomenon in the universe just happen to mathematically fit in with a model of the universe that was created by a Big Bang. That is why they call it a theory. It only fits with everything that we see. They can't prove it... yet.

And as to what may have existed prior to the formation of the universe, no one could every really say. Their is no way to analyze nothingness.

Exactly at the moment the Universe began. Time is a dimension of space-time. Once the first particles came into existence they began to age which is the measure of time.

Nothing existed before the Universe except energy in its rawest most unified form. Gravity, electromagnetic, strong nuclear, weak nuclear all of these forces were one 'Super force'

With out matter time could not have existed.

debris did no longer seem until eventually after the initiating of the super bang, and whilst they did seem they did no longer have countless mass. there became into no chain reaction, and there became into no explosion by fact initially there became into no area for something to blow up into. the super bang created area. so which you're commencing off with misconceptions approximately huge bang concept. The commencing place of the singularity that gave upward push to the universe is a controversy of hypothesis; no longer something is fairly worry-free yet approximately it. you're unsuitable in saying that something can not be created out of no longer something. digital debris seem out of the vacuum, linger a 2nd, and then annihilate and disappear, and it quite is occurring continuously on an excellent scale all around us continuously. Our own universe would have originated as any such quantum fluctuation in a prior universe. there is no such situation as an "atheist concept." Theories are proposed by employing scientists, and regardless of if or no longer they are atheists or no longer has no longer something to do with it. Scientists shop on with info everywhere it leads.

Time isn't there. There has always been eternity.We measure time by the movement of matter.There was a spiritual environment before there was matter.Matter was created and has an endless life.After the resurrection, these bodies will no longer be subject to death.The earth will still circle the sun once a year. But i billion revolutions from now, we will still be here, or somewhere in this universe.We will no longer put such an importance on time, just living life to the fullest.

Neither and all of the above. Both 'time', 'linearity', the 'universe', and 'nothing' are all human constructs, that don't exist. Think a bit more abstract, linear time is a myth that we perpetuated to function in this existence, it does not really exist. Look into quantum mechanics if you want to see the true fabric of the universe and how it functions.

Then you have to ask, where did the previous universe come from? Did that universe come from another one? It's an endless cycle. In the end, you need a universe that came to existence from nothing.

The Bible says that God created the universe "In the Beginning", as in at the beginning of time.

The bible does not say and I have not ventured to try to find any source that has,

Angels and space exist, to see the existing earth prepared ages, Job.38:4-7,30-32, Gen.1:1,25, as God's time is different than the seasons, years and days he gave on his Day four, for which we go by. Then there was man / Adam at the end of God's day six, 6074 years ago he passed death onto his offsprings, they are given a savior. The earth must be made as new as before Eden, so is all in it in his 1000 year reign, Rev.20:1-6..

Time is a concept to explain change. If there were no change occurring before the big bang, then it started with the big bang. I doubt that though, it seems to me that change always occurs.

Some theories suggest time had no beginning, only events in time have beginnings, such as the big bang.