tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post4018886637045727172..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The nature of TimeBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-38735395113454776932022-01-05T17:54:58.526+00:002022-01-05T17:54:58.526+00:00I think the way prophecy works is that it's a ...I think the way prophecy works is that it's a view into the mind of God, rather than the future, and that God then brings about the desired situation, based on his (and Heavenly Mother's) much better knowledge of the workings of creation, and interactions of beings. Lucindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01834799557675879450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-17598657140919546252022-01-04T21:50:35.323+00:002022-01-04T21:50:35.323+00:00An Orthodox priest once tried to explain to me how...An Orthodox priest once tried to explain to me how Jesus, when ascending into Heaven, was in fact already in Heaven and had always been there, "seated at the throne" outside of time. This makes Jesus, and God, into a kind of mathematical structure that bears no resemblance to dynamic human consciousness - Jesus like Hans Solo frozen in carbonite! <br /><br />Generally, the perspective of sub specie aeternitatis seems to have had a pernicious influence on Christian thinking. On the one hand it has an elegant mechanical simplicity, which is attractive for a certain kind of intelligence; on the other hand, the perspective can do real violence to one's spiritual understanding and orientation to God and other beings, to the extent the perspective is taken seriously and applied to vital matters.<br /><br />Indeed, mathematics and certain abstract philosophy are only kinds of study in which SSAe seems valid at all, and in a rather limited way. Mathematics as a potential reality (its undiscovered truths, contrasted with our creative understanding or "mapping" of them) are eternal, and its web of potential truths transcends all worlds and times. But this eternal perspective only gives you a static "world" of models; nothing resembling a Being can "live" there.John Goeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00206464455510064541noreply@blogger.com