Good will to all men? Not from the grumpy atheists! (Thank God not all atheists are grumpy but there sure seems to be a lot of them)
Why is it that so many in the atheist community cannot bring themselves to get past their anger whenever they engage in discussions? The language of many of their contributions in public debate is laced with invective and dripping with sarcasm and bile. There are exceptions of course, but they tend to fall more into the category of being the 'exception that proves the rule' when compared to the hostility of many of today's atheist posters. Comment offered by the theists in the public square is often depicted as being 'malicious' or 'venomous' and intended to enslave the 'feeble minded and weak' by those who post. Nothing could be further from the truth. Venom is something that is oriented to death. Christians are oriented in a 180 degree different direction. We speak not to the culture of death that grips our world but rather for the culture of life and light which ends with the gift of eternal life. For example, the Catholic Church in its hum...
Guth's 1999 Analysis of Expanding Pre-Big-Bang Models
ReplyDeleteAlan Guth concluded this study as follows: "In my own opinion, it looks like eternally inflating models necessarily have a beginning...As hard as physicists have worked to try to construct an alternative, so far all the models that we construct have a beginning; they are eternal into the future, but not into the past."
Just one small example of crazy confusion even for smart people. Is not obvious to even lay people that 'eternal' transcends future , past, now, time and duration? Why is it that the conflation of transcendent eternity (or The Eternal One) with creation, endlessly and ineffectually formed in order to demonstrate a proof for the existence of The Transcendent Eternal One?
It seems like ' faith' is a lot of talk but very little value.
We seem inclined to think of eternity as some sort of state where things are forever in motion. But in fact according to wisdom and reason, eternity and actuality are the same thing. Not something moving or becoming, but something that IS. The substance of which is incomprehensible to something existing forever in a state of potentiality. Which is why man needs myth in order to know Truth.
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