I haven't read your entire post, as I'm too tired right now. But as far as the last point... you can just Google "contradictions in the Bible" as I have, or even look up Internal consistency of the Bible - Wikipedia. The latter doesn't necessarily back up my point of view, but it enumerates all...
If you can stay in the now, and minimize thoughts of the future (which, for all of us, are bound to be mostly incorrect anyways) or the past, which none of us can change or do anything about, that is the "Eternal Now," on an experiential level if nothing else. You can dismiss that sentiment as...
I'm gonna push back on this, mostly because you use the phrase "Bible believer" and "most Christians" a little carelessly. Last first; Adam was not given ANY scenario; not ANY penalty. In Genesis, neither Adam nor Eve is given information about any punishment, just the command to not eat the...
Ha! I don't think this is a fair criticism from anyone coming from the western world, which nominally based its ethics on the Herbrew scriptures/Old Testament: start with God forever condemning humanity for a couple eating a piece of fruit, which almost certainly wasn't an apple, as apples are...
Well, you're wiser than I gave you credit for. You're absolutely right about how to live your life in the present, at least in my opinion. ''unfortunately,
i give waaayyy too much of my time to thinking about technological and physics alternatives in the future, because my life in the present...
What a fun question! Yes, as ben d says, this is just the latest hypothesis from observable scientific data. If other, earlier ideas about the "Big Crunch" could also be true, and perhaps even the "Big Crunch" is the event that brings about the "Big Bang" in an eternal loop of time. The end of...