I have been blown away by this series. As an aging man I have struggled to put my thoughts together and express what I believe as a Christian. This nailed it.
This has been a theologically thrilling series of posts, Richard: thank you. I hope they reach a wide audience. A few wonderings that I wonder if you might consider writing more about: 1. How does this theory of everything translate to human ethics? 2. This could be interpreted as a very individualistic vision: what is the relevance of the Church, or God’s partner people? 3. How do the notions of non-being and decreation mesh with your book on Old Scratch as a real power? Would love to hear any further thoughts you have on these questions. And again, THANK YOU!
This has been a wonderful and thought-provoking series.
Regarding this final post specifically, I might go further than Griffiths and challenge the notion (so commonly held that it tends to be assumed without question) that we consist of separate souls and bodies at all.
To the extent that I'm following you, Dr. Beck, what you describe sounds more to me like Mark Twain in "The Mysterious Stranger" than it does the even stranger stuff that I glimpse in that collection of ancient writings that we revere as "God-breathed and . . . useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." Am I reading you correctly? Is "everything" just a figment of God's imagination?
I have been blown away by this series. As an aging man I have struggled to put my thoughts together and express what I believe as a Christian. This nailed it.
This has been a theologically thrilling series of posts, Richard: thank you. I hope they reach a wide audience. A few wonderings that I wonder if you might consider writing more about: 1. How does this theory of everything translate to human ethics? 2. This could be interpreted as a very individualistic vision: what is the relevance of the Church, or God’s partner people? 3. How do the notions of non-being and decreation mesh with your book on Old Scratch as a real power? Would love to hear any further thoughts you have on these questions. And again, THANK YOU!
This has been a wonderful and thought-provoking series.
Regarding this final post specifically, I might go further than Griffiths and challenge the notion (so commonly held that it tends to be assumed without question) that we consist of separate souls and bodies at all.
To the extent that I'm following you, Dr. Beck, what you describe sounds more to me like Mark Twain in "The Mysterious Stranger" than it does the even stranger stuff that I glimpse in that collection of ancient writings that we revere as "God-breathed and . . . useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." Am I reading you correctly? Is "everything" just a figment of God's imagination?