Howdy Mark,
The thread has been more rant than rave but stimuilating to science.
For example.. consider the meaning and the word " TIME". Has science
reconciled time , it's meaning and purpose ?
If you started a digital clock display this moment , and if this was a
wonder clock that would accumulate and display elapsed time forever...
then.. the total time displayed, regardless of how many years , eons, etc
elapsed... still, would never equal the amount of time that had already
passed before you started the clock.
The concept of infinity makes time something that can have the strange
consequence of looping around and biting itself on its tail.. hmmm
Christianity may have been around since the named was coined some 2000
years, However, my infinite God is forever.. When one considers the word
"forever".. and it's implications, it simply cannot reconcile with science
because it is conceptual and beyond the realm of physical understanding..
this, we believer-followers in Christ call "faith" and non believers call
religion. The stumbling block is in describing " Christ forever, yesterday,
today and tomorrow. It has thrown many a good man.
Richard
Interesting discussion!
Who was it that suggested that religions usually last about 1500 to 2000
years? By then, because the
religion is static but society evolves, the symbols lose their meaning and
impact, and the old
religion <belief system> is cast off, and a new one comes in to replace
it, and the symbols that
still had meaning reappear in the new religion... but with modifications.
Was it Joseph Campbell
who proposed this?
Might I also remind all that Christianity is 2000 years old!
;-)
-Mark
