tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219659033112835348.post1298168803980591209..comments2024-02-01T10:09:27.385-08:00Comments on Sober Souls: Signs in the HeavenliesEdward V. Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13084709358791764362noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4219659033112835348.post-38289595610672653662013-07-29T18:10:58.635-07:002013-07-29T18:10:58.635-07:00Sarah, Einstein did say that time was a persistent...Sarah, Einstein did say that time was a persistent illusion, a compelling lie. The trouble with all parameters or anything defined is that they are the very means whereby something is made to be limited, and because we are limited (and God is not) the Scriptures (written from His unlimited perspective) say things like the reality here on earth is only a "shadow" of heaven and we are intrinsically nothing more than "a vapor, a lie, a phantom" etc. Yes, from God's perspective, from His unique advantage point of existing in all space and time simultaneously, everything is already played out, but this is too big for us. Luther was right when he talked of the bondage of our will because he understood that God's sovereignty overrided or overspanned our puny and limited expression of free will. In other words, it is from God's perspective (the only real one, or rather the only one which matters)that we are predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son. The free will we think we have, and we really do have it (but limited by the intrinsic limitations of our nature) we can exercise with impunity. No amount of deviance or demarcation from off the center of what God expects from us is enough to disturb, or in any way, limit His sovereignty; God is inscrutable and omniscient, incapable of being fully understood and completely knowledgeable about everything. Now to authoritatively answer your question, let this Scripture verse illuminate you: "I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him. That which is has been already and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by" (Ecclesiastes 3: 14-15). Edward V. Beckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13084709358791764362noreply@blogger.com