RE: The speed of light, stars, and YEC?
December 13, 2011 at 1:46 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2011 at 1:50 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(December 13, 2011 at 5:21 am)tackattack Wrote:(December 12, 2011 at 8:31 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: @TackThe actual event; sure I'll try. I'm no scholar in this but here's my thoughts on it. There was a time when humanity lived in blissfull trust and peace with God's will. Something happened dogmaticaly some kind of choice or excercise of free will. Afterward there was a fundamental shift in human nature where we don't trust in God and disobey his plan. I wasn't around then so I couldn't comment from experience.
So can you describe what exactly IS the fall from grace to you?
Infantilistic fantasy of worry-free suckling from an all caring, all nurturing, all protecting father with teats as an rather embarassing form of escapism from the reality that there have never been a wonderful past to serve as a guide, only through unstinting, self, not Jesus, guided striving along uncertain paths could you ever even earn a mere slight increase in the possibility of future improvement?
Sooner the fantasy is abandoned the more effectively can the reality be faced. Of course the eschatological aspects of Christianity makes no bones about the real purpose of the fantasy - not merely to allow you an escape - but to actively encourage you to escape in lieu of dealing with reality.
