Monday, January 18, 2010

The Problem With Eternity

I think the problem with talking about eternity is that we are trying to look at God beyond human scope.

No matter where we look, He is there. We go to the beginning of time? There He is. We go to the end of time? Yep. We go to the farthest reaches of space, He’s there. We look into the deepest miniscule particle—he’s there as well.

And so, in our minds, we want to say “God is in all places and is in all times at the same time.” But how can we say this? This is beyond human comprehension. Certainly God is beyond human comprehension, but we can’t claim what God is or where God is beyond our understanding. We’ve got to restrict ourselves to that which we know, and that which God revealed. As likely as some of our conclusions are, they are still guesswork.

Theology must be restricted more to the evidence.

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