Time-bound Man The suggestion was made (in Abundant Living and prior posts) that the timelessness of God and the purity of God are related. The purity of God is traditionally understood to be the Source of good in the world. But what if there is no God? Where does morality come from? If there is no […]
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Abundant Living
In Time Horizon, we contrasted eternal and temporal perspectives on the events of one’s lifetime. Now we consider a sky-high Biblical perspective on the matter. I once became fed up with my lack of understanding of the old testament. Why do we lug that thing around, when only the new testament seems relevant? I’m confessing […]
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In Morality and Time, we discussed the individual subjective “time horizon” which is a consequence of our living inside a time-bound perspective, rather than in eternity. Now we incorporate that eternal perspective. Long and Short Time Horizons If our time horizon is very short, then our life is in a sense not a life at […]
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Let’s consider the subjective sense of time that we each have. I don’t mean the sense that time flies or “I can’t believe it’s already August,” or that kind of thing. I mean the way we think of our lives as a whole. We all know we’re going to die, and yet in our daily […]
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Living Abundantly Much of our self-imposed misery, disappointment, fear, and anxiety results from an inability or unwillingness to think rightly about the future. The Bible speaks to living “abundantly.” Could it be that the ability to think long-term, about this life but also the life to come, is the single best measure of living “abundantly?” […]
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