An Eternal Perspective

The idea of eternity as a static passive meaningless abstract perfect world is old-news. Plato was wrong.

Eternity is Alive.

To stop moving is to be dead.

When did God stop moving?

And that brings us to some key versus in the bible, notably near the beginning and end.

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

In the beginning of what? That'd be the beginning of the heavens and the earth, obviously.

What was God doing before that?

Blasphemy you say. Read On I Say!

Revelation 21:1 -

"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea."

So apparently when God is done with this world, God will be making a new one.

Is this world a world that happened after an older one? This world has a sea. What will the world after that have? What about the one before?

And where did the Angels and Demons come from?

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When God makes his Family come to being in the World, we get His Spirit - we are free to create and love. This makes us worth having around, otherwise, why bother? The more we ask for, the more we get, the more we love, the more love we get.

We can get evil too, by sowing evil. What you reap, so you shall sow. Plant a peach seed, get a peach tree.

What has God sown? Us. We love, we hate. We seek and attain power, and all manner of other things. So we are like little gods.

What are angels but little gods? What are demons but little gods gone bad?

If we can't be free, how can we love?

If we never do anything but good, how are we free?

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IF I make something capable of being Good - like a little god - it must be free. So it must be capable of being bad too. They are contained in the same breath. One can not make something higher without making something lower. One can not make something good without making something bad.

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We say that God is Good. Few of us I think know what this means. I'm not convinced that I have a full understanding of it. I am convinced that I don't know the full extent of it. I do know also that it's fundamentally true.

What can this mean, except that having made something bad, God can still be Good. Apparently the existence of Good at all is worth the possibility of the evil.

Apparently also, it's possible to be improving. That is, it is possible for the Good to be in the process of outweighing the Bad, as it probably already does (there appears to me to be more good in the world than bad, but this may be my peculiar perspective). In some ways this means seeing the good in the bad itself, that the bad things that happen are just aspects of the good things that happen, and recognizing the good in the bad is half the battle. The other half being the improving of the bad.

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Is there a world beyond this good and bad? Is there a purer perspective in which there is only good, or only bad, or only neither?

A neutral world, in which nothing is good, is worthless. Why bother with it?

A bad world, in which nothing is good, why bother with that either?

So if there is a world beyond ours which is beyond good and evil, it must be itself pure good.

How can that be?

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If we can recognize that the bad things in our world are really good - that they are parts of the process of perfection, we can imagine how to come to live in this purely good world.

But can we really do this. Can we think of war and murder and rape as good somehow?

Maybe, who are we?

There is the saying "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." And so if we can continue on in the face of adversity, even our pains are redeemable. And what will count as death, then? Simply failing to continue on.

What if the evil does kill us?

And so we're back to our eternal perspective. If we fear death, continuing on in the face of adversity is ridiculous. How can we not fear death except by this - by knowing that God will not let us die uselessly, that is by faith we need not fear death.

Aloha,

Robbie