tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20627807.post7682499079323831367..comments2024-01-30T13:35:42.223-12:00Comments on Quantum Non-Linearity: The Fate of Man, by William ShakespeareTimothy V Reeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03913020911593893925noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20627807.post-67520903769977058132011-04-02T04:28:55.186-12:002011-04-02T04:28:55.186-12:00A quick note for lurking fundamentalists: The latt...A quick note for lurking fundamentalists: The latter are likely to claim that scripture is inerrant. Given that meaning=text+context just what scripture <i>is</i> becomes problematical. Thus getting a fundamentalist to identify scripture usually results in him defining <i>his interpretations</i> as scripture. So unless he believes in the divine authority of his opinions he, just like myself, will effectively believe in he fallibility of "scripture" - but of course he won't admit it.Timothy V Reeveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03913020911593893925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20627807.post-11138747870483845092011-03-17T04:29:35.398-12:002011-03-17T04:29:35.398-12:00Hi Celal,
I would like to be a universalist as mu...Hi Celal,<br /><br />I would like to be a universalist as much as I would like to be pacifist, but neither are realistic positions I have to admit.<br /><br />Don't worry I'm not an annihilationist either! (1 Cor 15:12ff)<br /><br />But neither am I a fundamentalist and I don't feel like an evangelical either. I don't subscribe to the inerrancy of scripture and I have a fairly liberal view of who is under grace. (Rom 2:12-18) In this connection it's worth pondering <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/why_i_am_an_amoral_family-hati.php" rel="nofollow">this</a><br /><br />I haven't studied Shakespeare enough to be an authority on hid views, but in the passages quoted he seems to be toying with the implications of annihilation after death. I see nothing wrong in being frank with oneself and turning over such uncomfortable stones in one's head. For me this is all part of that pilgrimage you refer to on your blog. Occasionally one might glimpse the delectable mountains in the far distance, but for me cutting a path through the undergrowth seems to be closer to the norm.Timothy V Reeveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03913020911593893925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20627807.post-9653448502047337232011-03-16T10:46:52.252-12:002011-03-16T10:46:52.252-12:00Hello Timothy ... You come across like an Annihila...Hello Timothy ... You come across like an Annihilationist or a Universalist.Celal Biraderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01242438141738856391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20627807.post-47860701694980612222011-03-12T04:18:48.560-12:002011-03-12T04:18:48.560-12:00Hello Celal, nice to see you back after all this t...Hello Celal, nice to see you back after all this time!<br /><br />Assuming that God always has a comprehensive power of veto and thereby constitutes a Sovereign manager are there any times and places when He is <i>not</i> active? Since the sort of juncture that Macbeth has arrived at presumably occurs not without that active Sovereign management, a management which includes the consequences of divinely reified principles being worked out, I would have said that Macbeth is being actively “punished” in a metaphorical sense. Whatever; he is clearly a tormented soul.<br /><br />In contrast to Macbeth's life style consider 1 John 4:18<br /><br /><i>There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. </i><br /><br />But then given that you have made a reference to a passage where we can read about “the Lamb” (Jesus isn’t literally a lamb), “the Father” (God isn’t literally a Father), stuff written on people’s foreheads, “Babylon”, “Fire and brimstone”, “the smoke of their torment”, “Sharp sickles”, (they didn’t know about the scything effects of machine guns in those days), and “The winepress of wrath” I think we are charting a very metaphorical/allegorical passage, not to be taken too literally.Timothy V Reeveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03913020911593893925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20627807.post-37727926373241878412011-03-12T02:23:05.264-12:002011-03-12T02:23:05.264-12:00Hell is also a place where the sinner endures acti...Hell is also a place where the sinner endures active punishment by God for his sins. (Revelation 14:10)Celal Biraderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01242438141738856391noreply@blogger.com