Good, John. I like active, or "heated" (passionate from both sides) discussions, but not just for the sake of argument. That is a trivialization of time, don't you think?
I like discussions where the object is to discover the truth.
Does "my concept" of eternal life exclude life before birth? No. But what is your point?
At the risk of missing your point, I'll go on to say that, because God has always existed and does not change, he has always known about you, me, everyone. From his perspective, we always exist.
But the important thing to me is not the fact that we exist forever or that from God's perspective we have always existed, but rather what is each individual's destination beyond this existence here.
Even if I were a true know-it-all, it would be unproductive to put down Einstein and mathematicians in general. Can other dimensions exist? Yes. Just because we cannot relate to them is no reason to belittle that.
What philosophical problem remains? Did I come here to prove something? No. I came here to find out what your thoughts are on eternal life, in the chance that there would be a common ground for discussion.
In other words, I came here anticipating the positive benefits of communicating with another human being who might be enjoying life and looking forward to even more enjoyment of life in the eternal future.
As the saying goes, "you can't take it with you."
John Templeton, of mutual fund management fame, has written at least one book on the existence of God. He doesn't consider it a trivial pursuit to consider eternal life and in particular the portion of it which we look upon as the future without end.
It was good of you to visit the Ask God thread, and I hope you will visit there again, and again. The Ask God thread participants have been talking about you a bit lately, of course.
What about those nails you have strewn about on the floor?
John |
