Eternity. Time. How do they relate? Perhaps this image can help explain. Time, which is what we live in right now, did not stop eternity. Time is defined as when God first created the earth and will end when Jesus comes back again? Maybe we don’t know when time will end, but we do know it had a beginning. The end doesn’t really matter for this illustration, but I do believe that time will have an end someday.
God exists outside of time. Because time has an end, and eternity doesn’t, God knows the end already. This is hard to comprehend because everything we know as humans is confined by the dimension of time.
Revelation 13:8 “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
This is how Jesus could have been slain from the foundation of the world. In a sense it already happened before the time act of Jesus’s death. All our past, present, and future sin was covered by the death of Jesus because of this.
Another interesting thought:
What is the opposite of love? Most people would say hate. However, what is the opposite of hate? Love and hate are not opposites. Apathy is the opposite of both. Thus, is it possible to love and hate at the same time?
I didn’t think you’d have time this week to make posts like that.
I am taking a correspondence course in Bible from Liberty University. We’re basically going through the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelations. It has been wonderful!
Wow, your class sounds awesome. You’ll have to share things you’ve been learning…I like your post here. Nicely said.
Hmmmm: I see what you are saying, but it’s kind of hard not to think of love and hate as opposites. I would think the opposite of loving someone would be hating them. But just because I don’t hate someone necessarily means I love or even like them…
About if it’s possible of someone loving and hating at the same time: maybe.
After reading Brooke’s comments on love and hate, I had a thought.
Whether or not love and hate are opposites depends on how you look at it. I think of love and hate as diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive feelings. You can’t love and hate something at the same time (yes, you can hate certain traits of something and love others, but I think you can’t simultaneously love and hate the same trait).
Apathy is the lack of feeling, is it not? Is that not the same as a neutral feeling? If your feelings about something, are they not also neutral? If this is the case, you could say that there is a love/hate linear scale with hate at one end and love at the other. In in the middle is apathy, where you feel neutral, neither love nor hate.
Another possible construct is a love/hate/apathy triangle, with love at one corner, hate at another, and apathy at the third. All are diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive, or, in other words, opposites, which is basically what I think you are saying in this post.
Whoops, I made a mistake, you did not postulate my second construct.
I definitely disagree with the idea that love and hate are not opposites.