In your mind, you have capacities, you knowTo telepath messages through the vast unknownPlease close your eyes and concentrateWith every thought you thinkUpon the recitation we’re about to sing Calling occupants of interplanetary craftCalling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft . . . With your mind, you have ability to
Lie: God is not good. Truth: God is better than we can possibly imagine. The cross of Christ is God’s final answer to the problem of evil because the problem of evil is in the cross itself. — E J Carrell The enemy of our soul aims this deadly arrow
We don’t sentence thieves and murderers and traffic violators with the same punishment. Likewise God’s justice ‘system’ is measured and proportional.
Time is obvious and everywhere. It just is.
But it’s also one of the deepest mysteries of all time. Saint Augustine famously said: ‘What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.’
Nowadays, when someone asks the question, what is time, it’s usually answered by a quantum physicist who goes into theories of spacetime, time crystals, black holes and such. But this article will not go in that direction. . . .
ath is easily the greatest mystery of all time. It’s the one mystery that can only be solved by experiencing the mystery itself. Yes, some have come back from the dead and told their stories. And some are certainly true. But for most of us the wall of death is impenetrable.
LIE: God only grants salvation to those who have faith in Jesus TRUTH: Our faith in Jesus is the awakening we need to accept our already-won salvation This article is written primarily from the perspective of individual salvation, but I do see the validity of social and cultural structures that
The heavens are connected to the earth, and saying so is not a literalistic interpretation; it is observable and perfectly rational. The sky, including the atmosphere, clouds, sun, moon and, yes, stars and even God’s throne are all part of ‘the heavens’ according to the biblical writers. They described the heavens and earth in the same breath, as one integrated whole.
In other words, HERE’S THE BIG LIE: ‘sorry folks, we know this must be disappointing, but unfortunately there is no personal ‘God,’ and so that means there is no personal God who created you and loves you. There is only the mysterious impersonal force of creation and destruction, whatever that is.’
![LIE: AI will [continue to] serve us](http://www.davidherin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/digital-on-human-face-230x230.png "LIE: AI will [continue to] serve us")
A fundamental uncertainty surrounds AI. ‘What will it do?’ ‘How far will it go?’ ‘Can we control it?’ Assuming that, once enough intelligence is gained, independent action will follow. That was true for Adam and the human race, but will it also be true for AI? The desire/will/intent to create AI/AGI is the ultimate divine act, that is, to create and cultivate entities like ourselves. It is the ultimate transgression.
I will not pretend to have solved the mystery of hell. Just as we cannot possibly envision the new heavens and earth, neither can we fully envision hell, whatever it is. But the truth is, the Word does give us the broad contours, enough to say with confidence that hell is NOT the caricature that we’ve been told.
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