ABOUT TIME

[ScottA]

If in ones ability to reason, knowing that time is not a part of the kingdom, but rather a part of the created world, what sense does it make to take up a worldly perspective? For example, if one were interested in learning a new language...would it make reasonable sense to hold fast to your old language and insist that the new language fit the terms of the old language?

Of course not.

Should we who seek God and His kingdom, therefore, hold to the ways of the world and expect God to fit our old worldly perspective on everything that comes out of scripture?

How absurd!

So why the timeline approach to all things scriptural?

Why indeed!

Is a potter finished when the pot is finished?

How absurd! The pot is a pot. The very idea that we have been looking at life as if the pot perspective had anything to do with the greater realm of God, for millennia, should be considered shameful. Ridiculous actually.

Yet every discussion here in the forums could be improved by stepping out of the realm of time to consider that greater realm of God and considering His perspective on why things are the way they are...and yet, very few will even go there, and most will poo poo the very idea, and retreat to the ways of the world and call the created things "reality."

Such a perspective reveals nothing.

 

[Helen]

Excellent @ScottA

 

[Helen]

...I need to hear it over, until it finally sinks IN.

 

[lforrest]

Ever considered how tense is used in scripture? Future tense, present tense, past tense?

If time is an illusion then there is no old and new; there is only what is and what isn't. Kinda similar to what is living and what is dead.

 

[ScottA]

...I need to hear it over, until it finally sinks IN.

Sometimes it seems like God has made a cake (in His image) and we are all sitting around the table like wine snobs with blinders on critiquing the nuances and culinary properties of a sheet cake that bears His resemblance, instead of turning our attention to the kitchen to get an actual glimpse of Him who made it.

 

[ScottA]

The world is like Jesus coming to run with us on a treadmill for a time, then sending the Holy Spirit to pull us off