Eternity Week #1: The Options

[redcrosse]

This week, I'm going to be talking about eternity, because it is a huge key to understanding much of anything going on in Christian thought. You can perfectly well assert Christian statements and values without the doctrine, but to make any ordered sense of it, you need eternity. This is a pity, as it is a ridiculously hard nut to crack, and had

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[ornithoptercat]

I really didn't mean any insult with my use of the word "jargon"; just I sometimes have trouble following your arguments because I do not have a real grounding in theology. And I doubt many of your other readers do either. Though many of them likely ARE much more comfortable with academic-type writing than me.

Rather, I am far more likely to recognize things like Katarmari Damacy references. (We should talk sometime about Rilke and why earth really is full of Things, now that you mention it.)

Eternity, btw, is laughing its infinite ass* off at the idea of you giving it a week.

* and you thought YOUR ass looked fat in that dress

[redcrosse]

Oh, no insult taken at all; I took it rather as a potentially valid criticism. Language is for communicating, I hear. Still, in occasionally preaching to evangelicals over the last few years, I've learned that I will always be criticized for speaking 'above their heads,' and yet, there are always a few who are really glad I did. In the end, I figure, I am TheologyBot2000, and it would be a shame not to protocol my protocol protocols. But even so, there comes a point at which jargon isn't poetry, it's just incomprehensible.

And yes, clearly, there's far more eternity to talk about than a week of one-screen blurbs can cover. Still, the notion is that in that space, one can give a very brief introduction to the idea, not that one can plumb its depths. In honesty, I think it entirely reasonable: what I know with any certainty of eternity can be adequately summed up within a week of these posts, no problem. What I don't know is better suited for fiction, where the vagueness of my knowledge is actually useful.

[ornithoptercat]

I did not say giving it a week is not a good idea. It is more than most people give it. No, I just felt obligated to make snarky comments. Tends to happen to me after 2am or so.