In Reply to: Re: Eternity = everything all at once posted by Rocky on May 18, 2003 at 01:15:20:
We certainly don't know much about God other than what he reveals but the bugging questions keep coming. Sometimes I wonder if questions aren't just a way to keep us alive, mentally and spiritualy that is. I appreciate the idea of an "eternal moment". Did you ever get to read Flatland by Edwin Abbott? Not to be confused with the letter flatlanders but it is the samething Paul was saying to the corinthians (1co2:14) that the natural man cannot know the things of the Spirit of God because they have to be spiritually discerned.
One of the big questions in theology and even in philosophy is the idea of how a person comes to "know" something, including divine revelations. However, that would be the answer or the result of being like the people of Berea or the prophets in 1Pt 1:10. What is necessary for this result is to have a questioning mind (and this is very much part of Jesus' own ministry where His job was to answer and teach)but even more than just that because He taught and answered questions of many people, jew and gentile alike, but we know that not all received His teachings, or Him, but as many as received Him...