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08/03/2014

My Thoughts

Question 7: What is the meaning of history?

A) It's linear with a beginning and an ending. (Creationist and Materialist.)

1. Biblical Creationist:

People say that all religions are the same. Well, that's not true. All but one religion have a list of teachings that must be kept. That set of teachings of any religion came through a holy man that connected the spirit world with humans on earth. It really doesn't matter who that man or woman was. The teachings could have come through any person that was deemed holy enough. So history doesn't make or break any religion except one.

That one religion is Christianity. If Christ hasn't come and died and rose from the dead, then Christians are most to be pitied. Why is that? It's because Jesus is a being with eternal value, summing up to more than all men together. He is the son of God, equivalent to God himself, a part of the trinity. Only one such carnation exists and it is Jesus. It's only this Jesus that could die as a human that would satisfy the penalty of all men, in one death. All other people, when they die, die for their own sin, no one could die for anyone else for they must atone first for themselves..

Without the death of Jesus, the gospel 'The Good News', becomes worthless. Christianity isn't about how you are supposed to live a life. It isn't about teachings and stories and morality, it's about history. That God, after creating our universe in perfection, yet leaving a door for humans to walk through to see if they would be obedient or rebellious, he watched as humans choose rebellion and to reject him. He then as just God, took upon himself the penalty of a rebellious race so that justice might be satisfied and a rebellious human race could be righteous again.

2. Materialists understand the observable universe is in an expansion state. It will either keep expanding and reach a state of no energy or it will contract back into a singularity to re-explode into an expansion state. What happens in the expansion times is really a moot point as it's here today and gone tomorrow, with nothing breaching the times between singularities.

B) It's cyclical and what has happened will happen again. (Deja vu) (Buddhist)

C) It's nothing. There is no meaning. It's just random cause and affect. (Humanistic materialist.)

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Another thought is, who created time, or where did it come from. It's an organization of things that is required for life. It's almost like the organization of a file cabinet, which doesn't happen 'naturally'. My desk is always a mess because I don't take the time to organize it. Logically there must be an Organizer of things, who created the file-cabinet called time. Without time then cause and effect, action-reaction, and evolution could never take place. To say it just is, is your description of prime reality.

Think about it.

Love,
Dad