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A diamond - a stupid crystalline rock - just sold for 71 Million. Humans are impressed with the value of things and "Eternal sacrifice" I think has to do with value not time...and eternity of ever increasing value. Lord, help me to remember that everyday.
Agreed. A diamond has no intrinsic value, but only the value placed on it by man.
Pretty sure that Albert Einstein proved that time is a spatial dimension, not an illusion. Have you read his book on the general and special theory of relativity?
Jesus isn't a proxy for anyone. Scripture teaches that Jesus already existed before He was born. Even His name is found described in the Old testament prophets. When He was questioned about His origins, He answered plainly that "before Abraham was I am". He wasn't being cryptic, He was being factual.
Understanding the theoretical physics doesn't necessarily help, but Einstein's theory of relativity demonstrates mathematically that time can be treated as a spatial dimension, eg: length, height, width, time. If you take that as a given truth, then every moment in time coexists now, in the past, and in the future. They are all part of physical space as a continuum. In that sense, we all have existed from the beginning of creation and will exist until its end. That doesn't really clarify spiritual matters to me, but it does help me to understand that time is part of creation and since God exists outside creation (as well as inside) He sees it as a finished work, while we only experience the spatial continuum in 3 dimensions, but with an awareness of the passage of time, our built in sense of eternity.
ya, and by illusion I really mean "perspective" I guess, time is a subjective perception iow. The illusion part would be when we believe that time is the same for everywhere, or I guess even everyone
well, so you say, but I'll stand by the statements for now, and I don't think you will be able to Quote "Jesus" from the OT wadr, but I can Quote "no Son of Man may die for another's sins..." see.
I think that some people object to your posts because your use of the English language is not fastidious. Illusion or illusory do not convey the same meaning as perspective. Relativity describes variations in perceived reality while illusion implies a lack of the same. Given that the Lord has said that we shall be held accountable for every word that comes out of our mouths (and presumably every word typed by our hands), wouldn't it be prudent to be as accurate in our communication as we are capable of?
well, thing is imo for most of us time really is an illusion, but I agree that that is inadequate without explanation, and "perception" is prolly a better lead-in there, ty. Unfort that suffers from some inadequacy too tho right, "time is a perception" is after all not very meaningful by itself either.
pretty sure I could quote Einstein saying "this perspective is (=) an illusion" though, fwiw. I could also bring some handy image or other that we call "optical illusion" here and ask you what your "perspective" on the image is, right--and your perspective would surely be "illusion" too?--so not disagreeing but this is what I was thinking at the time
Albert Einstein Quotes. The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion
