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Why does the Lord have to "come like a thief in the night"? Is He up to no good? Does He want to leave a part of His own creation still living in ignorance with no chance at salvation? Why would God do that? And how do you know that a day with the Lord is worth a thousand years? We're talking eternity here and in that context a day worth a thousand years is a day that flashes by so quickly, we barely notice it.
The best description of eternity that I have ever come across goes like this:
Suppose you had a very fine sheet made of the best of silk and large enough to cover the Himalayas. Every 1,000 years you carefully unpack that sheet of silk and ever so lightly pass it across the peaks of the mountains. You do this until finally the Himalayas begin to crumble. At first it's just a rock here or a pebble there. But if you persist with your task, one thousand years at a time, eventually the Himalayas will be nothing more than a few piles of sand. It is at this point that you can say that eternity has finally just begun.
Time is a construct of this dimension and reality. There is no time it is an illusion. When you agree to come into this Earth School, you agree to forget your past and abide by the rules of living within the reality boundaries.
A passage invented to explain away the fact that the promised second coming did not occur as promised.
The "God can't tell time" doctrine is an interesting one. It basically posits that God can't tell time in human terms (which flies in the face of omnipotence) or it posits that God refuses to tell time in human terms even though he could if he wanted to. This strikes me as odd in that having his own time table and being able to calculate time in human terms doesn't seem like that tough a task for God.
Why does the Lord have to "come like a thief in the night"? Is He up to no good? Does He want to leave a part of His own creation still living in ignorance with no chance at salvation? Why would God do that? And how do you know that a day with the Lord is worth a thousand years? We're talking eternity here and in that context a day worth a thousand years is a day that flashes by so quickly, we barely notice it.
The phrase means suddenly, when it's not expected. Meaning we shouldn't try to predict it.
And the "day = 1000 years" is a figure of speech.
2 Peter 3:8 "But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
It speaks more of our frailty and the short life we live.
Time is a construct of this dimension and reality. There is no time it is an illusion. When you agree to come into this Earth School, you agree to forget your past and abide by the rules of living within the reality boundaries.
No, time is not an illusion. The rate at which time passes is affected both by speed and by gravitational fields. It's called time dilation and the effect is measurable and needs to be accounted for in order for GPS satellites to stay synchronized with each other and with ground based instruments.
As for your other comment about agreeing to come to earth, that's your opinion.
Nothing about Jesus is "scary". Get it together dude.
And what's up with all the CAPS words? Do WE really NEED to be CARRYING on like THAT?
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