Everything in the Bible is true.  Not everything in the Bible is the truth.

 

Before you charge me with heresy, hear me out.

 

We must always consider who is speaking or who is writing the passage under question.  If it is a man or woman speaking then we have to consider the motives of that person.  Does he or she have a stake in speaking a lie, or does she or he have a stake in speaking the truth and, further, is he or she privy to the truth?  (Many good examples of the speaker's not being privy to the truth occur in Job).  If it is a man writing the passage (I am unaware of a Biblical passage clearly attributed to a woman author-certainly Meriam comes to mind, but what she sang following the Red Sea crossing was written down by Moses), then we must assume that person was inspired by the Holy Spirit, and thus it must be the truth.  But even then, we must be careful to recognize that the Holy Spirit will limit Himself to using (accommodating) the knowledge of the author to convey that truth.  Thus although the message is true, the details may have conveyed a different version of the truth when it was written 3500 to 2000 years ago than that version we know now with the scientific advances that have occurred since then.  If it is one of the members of the Triune Godhead speaking, then it must be true, bearing in mind the caveat discussed above. If it is Satan or one of his minions speaking to one of the members of the Triune Godhead, then we can assume the speaker is compelled to tell the truth.  Finally, if it is Satan or one of his minions speaking to a man or woman, then it is likely a lie or at least a deception.

 

But it does not end there.  The above steps only get us to "possibilities" for the passage.  To be absolutely sure we have selected the correct possibility, we must move on to consider the entire counsel of God on that topic.  If we don't apply these two approaches, we are in dire danger of misrepresenting what the Bible says.

 

Let me provide an example of what I mean:

 

In Genesis 2:15, God tells Adam, “…you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.” (NIV)  Later in Genesis 3:4, Satan tells Eve, “You will not surely die” when he suggests she take a bite of the forbidden fruit from that tree.  She listens to him and eats the fruit.  And you know what?  She does not die (immediately), so Satan must have been telling the truth and God must have been lying, right?  No, it is abundantly clear from many other passages in the Bible that what Satan was saying was the lie (or at least a deception): Not everything in the Bible is the truth. 

 

Now, some of you may be saying, Adam and Eve were never real people.  I won’t reveal my thoughts on that here, but I will say in every case where my scientific upbringing has caused me to wonder about the truth of the passage, that passage has always met the following criterion:

 

It is either literally true or figuratively true.

 

The parable of the Good Samaritan and a story about it exemplifies what I mean.

 

A while back I heard a story of a guide in the Holy Land who took a group of tourists to an archaelogical site that was at the time undeveloped.  He told the tourists this was the site of the inn the Good Samaritan took the wounded man to.  One of the tourists pointed out, “The story of the Good Samaritan was just a parable taught by Jesus.  It didn’t really happen.”  Whereupon the guide quickly replied, “Well if it had happened, this is the inn the robbed man would have been taken to.”

 

The parable is not literally true in the sense it describes something that really happened.  However, it is literally true in the sense that Jesus actually taught this parable under the circumstances mentioned in Luke 10:25-37.  In both cases, the LESSON of the parable is figuratively true.

 

But the story doesn’t end there.  When I first heard the story, I chuckled at the guide’s remarks (perhaps like you), thinking he was very clever to come up with a quick riposte, and that, all along, he was just spinning a yarn about the inn.  At least that’s what I assumed until the January/February 2012 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review.  On pages 47-57 of that issue is the article, “Inn of the Good Samaritan Becomes a Museum.”  It turns out there really is a genuine inn on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho that Jesus had in mind when he told the parable!  I assume it was the ruins of this very inn that the guide had pointed out to his group.

 

This reveals another truth about Biblical truth-sometimes we are not ready to see how really true something in the Bible is until we’ve been prepared to see it.

 

Let me provide another example of what I mean.  Heman the Ezrahite pens the following in Psalm 88:

 

"I am counted among those who go down to the pit;
    I am like one without strength.
⁵ I am set apart with the dead,
    like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
    who are cut off from your care.

 

What does this mean?  Is Heman telling us there is no afterlife?  Is Heman telling us Old Testament people weren't privy to eternal life?  Or, is Heman telling us what he understood to be the case?  In light of verses elsewhere in the Old Testament (e.g., the 23rd Psalm) and in the New Testament, we have to consider the first option to be incorrect.  In light of the transfiguration (among other events in the New Testament) we have to consider the second option to be incorrect, so we are left with the third.  Everything in the Bible is true (Heman actually wrote those verses) but everything in the Bible is not the truth (Heman was wrong in his understanding). 

 

But wait, why would God allow a misunderstanding to be inserted into His Holy Word?  Besides the explanations that He's God and He can do what He wants and His ways are higher than our ways, I'd proffer the explanations that this misconception makes us aware that 1) even Godly men (like Heman) can get it wrong.  That 2) ungodly men can get it wrong -- their argument that there is no afterlife is a natural supposition.  And most importantly, that 3) because of 1) and 2) we are compelled to REALLY look deeply into the full council of God on any doctrine before we can hope to understand it correctly.

 

Now for an example of 2), ungodly men can get it wrong.  In the Gospel of John, chapter 6, we find a rendition of one of the many times the Pharisees were discussing Jesus; trying to find ways to discredit Him.  Now the Pharisees were, in spite of their self-assessment, mostly ungodly men.  An exception was Nicodemus, the one who earlier had gone to Jesus in the night and there learned about the second birth (John 3).  He came to Jesus' defense so the rest of the Pharisees replied, "...'Are you from Galilee, too?  Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.'"  They were wrong.  2 Kings 14:25, informs us otherwise, "...in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher."  Gath Hepher is just a few miles north of Nazareth, solidly in Galilee, and this Jonah is one and the same as the minor prophet who wrote the eponemous book in the Old Testament.

 

And now for the third, and perhaps most controversial, of my opinions on Truth and the Bible.  Jesus uses parables to teach spiritual truths.  We don't expect these parables to be true events, but they are based in some way or another on true events or practices.  The parable of the good Samaritan is an example.  Why, then, when Jesus refers to stories in the Old Testament, does it automatically require the assumption that He must be ascribing to them historicity?  Why couldn't He simply be relying on the spiritual truths inherent in the accommodation found in the Old Testament story?  A good example would be Noah's flood in Genesis.  Certainly, at the end of the Pleistocene when the glaciers covering much of the northern hemisphere quickly went from a mile or more thick to nearly nothing, there must have been many places where sudden and dramatic flooding occurred, causing unanticipated death of untold numbers of people and leading survivors to assume the waters had covered the whole Earth.  Jesus' reference to the flood in Matthew 24:37,38 and Luke 17:26,27 is emphasizing the unanticipated nature of His second coming.  It can do that without requiring all the conditions described for the flood to be factually true.

 

Of course, here's the rub:  Although it may appear easy to blindly assume everything in God's Word is to be taken at face value, doing so creates many problems with internal and external inconsistencies.  It takes much more effort to apply the approach outlined in the first two paragraphs introducing this topic.  But not only does that take time and effort, it also creates the risk of misunderstanding God's intentions.  None of us wants to do that.  So, when I read and study God's Word, I am guided by the principles outlined above and two convictions: 1) the Gospel¹ in one way or another, is found in every chapter of the Bible.  It is, after all, the big idea² of the Bible.  And 2) the Gospel is very strongly supported by extrabiblical evidence.  For these two reasons, I firmly believe that 1) if you keep the core features of the Gospel in mind, you will not go wrong and 2) you will not be threatened by the thought that something in the Bible is not literally true.

 

¹See the Twelve Fundamental Principles of Christianity.

²Crowder, Bill, 2016, "The Big Idea" in "Starting Points for Understanding Scripture," Our Daily Bread, December, January, February 2016-2017.

 

Notes for future consideration

In Luke 24:39, Jesus says, ^"Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” (NIV).  Does this mean Jesus is confirming that ghosts are real?

 

Agape

You will notice my correspondences often close with "Agape."  In case you do not know what that means, here is my understanding.  Greek has four words for love, "eros," "philia," "storge,"and "agape" (the latter two end with  an "ay" sound, like they were invented by our friends to the north).  The former is sensual love.  It gives rise to the word, "erotic."  The second is the loyalty and affection that can exist between friends and within a family.  It is used in "Philadelphia," the city of brotherly love.  It is also used in "philanthropia" which is Greek for kindly and/or generous feelings.  The third is the natural affection family members have for one another.  I know of no English word that has this root and unlike the other three, it is not used in the Bible.  Finally, the latter is the Holy, unmerited love of God.  When I use it, I am not trying to suggest I am God (horrid thought), rather I am wishing you the blessing of God's love from the bottom of my heart.

 

If you want to learn more, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love.

 

Loving the "Unclean" Presentation to LGBTQA.pptx

 

Before I begin, let me explain my use of the term "Unclean."  The Bible is very clear what was meant by "Unclean" and also equally clear that Jesus ignored the rules applying to the "Unclean."  As such, it is a stand-in word we under-stand that embodies the whole concept of how the world regards LGBTQA.

 

What I am about to relate is a little long, but it has to be that way for two reasons: 1) It takes time to weave the story of how God worked and is working in this endeavor, 2) the 40-day program tells us to journal and record answers to prayers so we could reflect on them in the future and there were so many answers to your prayers!

 

My specific prayer entered for the day in our 40-day Web-based group:

May Your angels place a hedge of protection around me tonight as I share Your Love for the sinners in the LGBTQA Club who are no different in their standing with You than I was before I allowed You to transport me across that humanly impassable chasm between mankind's unholiness and Your Holiness to find myself suddenly bathed in Your cleansing Love.

 

18 02 05

Although this did not come to me until a few days ago, it was certainly an undercurrent of the events of Feb 9th, 2012, so it best goes here.

 

When confronted with anyone who declares or considers himself to by my enemy, I declare:

"I love you not only because I am commanded to, but because I have God's love inside me and I can't help but love you with the same love He has for you."

 

How February 9^th, 2012, and today tracked:

 

Early morning in my quiet time:

I should always be on the lookout for miracles in my life, whether they are major or minor, like the "coincidence" that happened this morning in my quiet time.  I currently read two pages of the OT and two of the NT each day.  Today my reading in the Old Testament "just happened" to include Leviticus 18.  Jesus was reminding me to not lose sight of His Law in what I was about to do that night.

 

Mid morning:

I received an email from a former member of NCF requesting to be removed from the rolls because of what NCF was doing.  Here is the original email and the response God gave me after praying about it:

 

It has been brought to my attention that Norwich University Christian Fellowship is the "biggest ally" of the Norwich University LGBTQA club.  Due to this, I cannot, in good conscience and in accordance with my beliefs, be associated with a group that claims to be a Christian group which supports a group that promotes a group and lifestyle not in accordance with the Christian faith.  While I have been inactive this academic term in NCF, I am requesting confirmation that myself and my name are not associated in any way with the Norwich University Christian Fellowship.  Thank you for your time.

 

Respectfully, X

 

X,

Although you were on our rosters in ‘10-11, you requested since then that you be removed and were.  As a result, you have not been sent an email from our rosters for at least a year and you would, therefore, not be privy to our motives.  That is a shame, because it is obvious from your message that you do not understand what we are doing and why we are doing it.  We are clearly following the Lead of our Lord Jesus in this matter.  We would not be doing it if it weren’t crystal clear that He wants us to.

 

If you want to know more, then come to our meetings.  If not, I have to ask you how do you handle Jesus’ constant mingling with the tax collectors, prostitutes and other sinners?

 

Agape, Carl

(If you don’t know what I mean by Agape, click on http://mentiscopia.pbworks.com/Truth%20and%20the%20Bible/ and scroll down to agape.)

 

During the day:

I had a flow of NCF’ers in my office letting me know their concern and that they were praying.

 

That evening:

In our small group Bible Study before the event, I was afforded an opportunity to practice my presentation (something that I did not have the time to do earlier that day) and work out a couple of glitches so that the presentation I gave later went with only one minor glitch.

 

When we got to the LGBTQA meeting room, the TV-computer interface wasn’t working in spite of my trying it out earlier.  I didn’t try one step and wouldn’t you know, that step was the critical one.  This also meant that the group leader couldn’t show his presentation after mine.  Fortunately I knew where an LCD projector was and I immediately went there.  It wasn’t in the room where it was supposed to be. I headed out of the room and felt I needed to look one more time.  I did, and there it was on top a shelf near the ceiling!  

 

The next mini-miracle can be seen in the slides I prepared.  They were black on a white background, nothing fancy.  The wall we ended up projecting them on was yellow.  The wording showed up clearly!  The presentation is attached.  Please open it in the version where the slides and notes are shown simultaneously.  I always put notes with my presentations so I will remember what I said two weeks later when I look at them again.

 

Many from my church and many NCF members were praying for me during the entire time.  Some (Chris and about five other NCF members) even found the time to attend with me and silently prayed during the presentation.

 

The message was very well received.  It took longer than I thought, but some of that overrun was answering the many questions they had.  They were very receptive of the presentation and none had an objection to it that they voiced anyway.  One openly stated she wanted to know when and where we met so she could join us.  We have been invited to show the film, “Lord, Save Us from Your Followers” during a gay pride week they are putting on later this semester.  Pray for that one.  If you thought last night was dangerous and fool-hardy, then this event is even more so.

 

One interesting result of the survey of things we have in common (see the last slide of the presentation) was the idea we both have dreams, meaning both hopes for a future and physical dreams indicating that our brains are fundamentally the same.  I had thought of the former, but not the latter.

 

When we came home:

I quickly went over my emails and found an email from the co-director of the Vermont State Science and Mathematics Fair.  She had created two important files that I had planned to create but didn’t have the time for since I was working on my presentation.  I nor any other human asked her to do this.  Here is my response to her.

 

Trish,

 

You have been busy tonight doing my work!   Believe me when I say this, you are showing me God’s goodness.  It’s a long story, but today I did something I was uncomfortable doing because God called me to it.  It took time away from what I knew I needed to be doing for the science fair.  What you have done is God using you (and I know you are pleased to know that) to show me He really does pay us back and then some for time we sacrifice for Him.  This is something that was not even on my radar, but will clearly save me immense amounts of time.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

 

Agape, Carl

 

Wednesdays is when I normally send an email to my granddaughter in Minneapolis, Kevin’s daughter.  She is a 13-year old Christian who has taken up the cause of Christian persecution of Gays.  I didn’t send it Thursday because I was so busy with preparations for Wed. So I sent it Thursday evening.  Here is what I was able to say,

 

Em,

 

I hope and pray you are reading these messages.  Because today is a day that I really desire your prayers.  You see, this evening, as a representative of the Norwich Christian Fellowship, I am reaching out to introduce Norwich’s LGBTQA club to the love of Jesus.  I have clearly been called by our Lord to do this, and I want to do it so that His love comes through loud and clear.  Please, if you get this, or even when you get this, pray, even if it is after the event.  God already knows that you are going to pray and that prayer will be added to the many others that will give me the strength, love and wisdom I will need.

 

Love, Grampa P

 

This morning in my quiet time

My OT reading included Leviticus 19.  In spite of the fact I have read this over 30 times in the 36 years I’ve been walking with the Lord, I had missed that this chapter is essentially a rendering of a third version of the 10 commandments (the others are in Exodus and Deuteronomy).  The order and wording is not the same, but you can find them all there if you look carefully.  Verse 3 is a particularly poignant verse since it talks about respecting our mothers and fathers.  I was instantly reminded that when I came to the part of the introductory slide that said we returned to Northfield in 1982, that I explained the major reason Chris and I had returned was to honor our mothers and fathers as required in the 10 Commandments.  We did this since Chris’s mom had Alzheimer’s and needed constant care that her dad couldn’t deliver and my folks were getting close to the age when they likely wouldn’t be around much longer.  At the time I worried if that wasn’t a little “too strong of a Christian message.”  This confirmed it was not.

 

God is Awesome!  Thank you ALL for your prayers.

 

Agape, Carl

 

In Conclusion (22 10 14)

We often rush to condemn those we deem devoid of God. This is wrong. Rather, we should love them; not to condone their behavior, but to see in them the dim presence of God and magnify that in our own mind and the minds of those we would condemn. The outcome of this approach is much more in line with God's will than any approach. I know, I've seen it happen. The Norwich LGBQTA club lasted one year. This year, NCF celebrated its 40th anniversary.

 

Loving the "Unclean," Part 2

2024 01 16 to 24 01 24

A few days ago, OCF received an email from a person who copied the mailing list from their directory. It contained a lot of hate speech in an effort to exhort OCF members to speak out. I had been very troubled by the tone of recent conversations coming from the far right evangelical movement toward Christian nationalism. I had been silent. I felt I could not continue to be so. So, as I went to bed, I said to God that if He wanted me to respond, to give me deep sleep after 2 a.m. I won't go into how I track my sleep here, perhaps I'll do that elsewhere. But, suffice it to say, that night, for the first time since I had been tracking my sleep, I had a session of deep sleep around 3 a.m. I had my answer. So, in the morning I started to write a thoughtful response, but then, as often happens, things got in my way. A few days later, with this assignment still hanging over my head, I was looking forward to a day of business on these other "things." Suddenly around 9 a.m., the power went off, and I was left with no internet to do these "other things." So, with nothing else to do, I turned to the response. I worked at it diligently and with what I have come to recognize as the Holy Spirit's help. I had just finished the last sentence when suddenly, the power came back on! We serve a MIGHTY God!!

Here, then, is the response:

 

"Thank you for your words of exhortation. God’s Word, the Bible, clearly challenges us to boldly speak God’s Truth.

 

However, as Christians, we must do so keeping in mind the prime directive from Christ, “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind.’” and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’” (Luke 10:27). This is an expansion (improvement) on part of the Shema (which begins with Deuteronomy 6:4-9) uttered by faithful Jews twice daily. It is an expansion in two ways: 1) it adds “mind” to the list in Deuteronomy, and it adds “love your neighbor as yourself.”

 

Why, you should ask, does Jesus add these? I believe for two reasons.

 

1) By adding the New Testament to the Old Testament (Jewish Tanakh), God provides a fulfillment of His plan for humanity. But to grasp and appreciate the implications of that addition, God knew we would require even deeper use of our mind than with the First Covenant, which requires plenty of thinking on its own. In short, more words mean more material to search through to reach an understanding of God’s full counsel on any given topic. We can no longer afford to take one verse and run with it.

 

2) by including “love your neighbor as yourself,” Jesus is teaching us a very deep lesson. If we are honest with ourselves, we recognize we have constant chatter going on in our mind. That chatter is most often with ourselves, and sometimes, if we are blessed enough to be God’s children, with Him. Or, if we are not on guard, it can even be with Satan. When it is with ourselves, it is often about pampering and protecting our self. Often, whether we realize it or not, when we have an opportunity to choose between pampering and protecting ourselves or doing that for others, we chose self over others. That is sin! I don’t know about you, but I struggle with my sin almost moment by moment. The best way to see this is to read Phil 2:3-4, and then, to appreciate how it is sin, continue with Phil 2:5-11. These verses constitute the most succinct summary of the Gospel message in the New Testament and in the Bible its equal is only found in Isaiah 52:13-53-12 in the Old Testament.

 

Jesus not only taught us these lessons, He illustrated them as well. Repeatedly, Jesus showed compassion (understanding) and love toward everyone He met, even, or especially, when that person was not living up to the Biblical standards. The only exception to this I can find is whenever someone He met was using faith as a means for self-aggrandizement or power. Toward them, He showed judgement and anger.

 

So understanding and loving others should be our guiding principle. By emphasizing the standards rather than the love, we almost guarantee we will alienate those we so desperately desire to reach with the Gospel, and we lose the battle. However, when we emphasize love and compassion and understanding, we more correctly reflect Jesus, and we win the battle!

 

Allow me to illustrate this with an actual application. In 1965 I graduated from Norwich University, United States’ oldest private military college and the founder of ROTC. In 1982, I returned to Norwich to begin teaching there and more importantly, to start an OCF Bible study group. In 2012 When the military finally decided it was “alright to tell,” an LGBTQA club formed immediately. The Norwich Christian Fellowship (NCF) had an enemy. But as we prayed about it, the Lord made it clear to us, we were to love them, not oppose them. So, with incredible discomfort and trepidation, we attended their first meeting. We explained we could not condone any of what they were promoting, and in fact we found it in direct opposition to what NCF represented, but we had a higher calling from God, the call to LOVE them. They were not expecting that. Over the semester, some of our student leadership and I met with the LGBTQA club regularly. As a professor of personal and community health and out of compassion, I even agreed with their precautions to prevent the transmission of STD’s. I wanted to keep them safe while at the same time telling them I believed abstinence until marriage was the best policy. Some of their members were curious enough to attend our meetings. Now I wish I could say some of those accepted the Lord. I am not aware that any did. But I do believe some seeds were planted that may, sooner or later, produce followers of Jesus. The Holy Spirit always does the convicting. He uses what we do as His fodder, but He knows best how to carry a person to salvation.

 

But I can tell you this. By loving these people rather than confronting them, they were changed enough that the LGBTQ club did not start up again the next fall. Meanwhile, Norwich Christian Fellowship will be celebrating its 42 year of existence this fall.

 

Love conquers all. Hate just drives people further apart.

 

How are you using your faith?"

 

Gay Marriage?

A close read of the First Amendment as it relates to Freedom of Religion reveals that the US could be considered to be in violation of the second of the two clauses of this amendment.  By basing our laws as they relate to taxes, benefits, etc. on “married couples,” we are violating the free-exercise clause.  The most obvious case in point is the interference with Mormonism’s polygamy (not that I am in favor of either).  What the constitution should have set up is a civil union license (rather than a marriage license) between two consenting adults. 

 

Taxes, benefits, etc., would be based upon that license which would be obtained at a government office, as is the marriage license today.  If a man wanted several wives, he could have them, but they would be responsible collectively for the taxes due from that arrangement and vise versa for a woman wanting several husbands.  Religious organizations would then be free to define, advertise, argue for, and conduct ceremonies in accord with, what they considered marriage to entail.

 

I don’t think such an approach is now possible, but hind sight is 20-20.

 

God's xxx is so...

God's wisdom is so complete that no word can describe it... except "Omniscient."

God's power is so complete that no word can describe it... except "Omnipotent."

God's presence is so complete that no word can describe it... except "Omnipresent."

God's love is so complete that no word can describe it... except click here.

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God is BOTH Republican and Democrat

We often see this as "God is neither Republican nor Democrat."  I propose that is a wrong position based upon Eph 4:28:

^"28 Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need."  As I understand it, Republicans are focused on promoting the work ethic as a way to bring about a better society and Democrats see social responsibility as the way to achieve the same goal.  I rest my case.

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God is Not Eternal (May 2015; next modified on 4 July '15)

God is not eternal. Eternity implies ongoing time. Since time came with Creation, it did not exist before the Big Bang and likely, it will end with the end of the universe, which science puts at 100's of billions of years from now.

 

Instead, God is atemporal, or timeless. We have no concept of what it means to be time-less, nor do we have any understanding of the conditions of timelessness.  Any attempt to wonder what happened leading up to Creation either in God's mind or anywhere else is both futile and nonsensical.

 

God is Eternal

"But wait!" you protest, "The Bible SAYS God is eternal." (e.g., Genesis 21:33, Deuteronomy 33:27, Romans 16:26).  Then think about this:

 

God never changes (Numbers 23:19, Psalm 55:19, Malachi 3:6, Hebrews 7:21). Jesus is God. Jesus grew up and therefore changed. This is not a contradiction.

 

God is in an existence outside of time.  A common term in every equation involving change is "delta x" where "x" is the property undergoing change.  When that change involves some function of time, that equation explicitly or implicitly includes the term, delta t" for "change in time."  Outside of time, there is no "delta t" and therefore no change.

 

As explained above, God created time with the creation of the universe and the universe will end.  At that ending, everything, even down to the quantum level, will have been torn apart in what is known as the "Big Rip" as a result of the continued expansion (and acceleration of that expansion as we now know) under the influence of dark energy of space.  At that "time" everything will be equal and alike and once again, there will be no "delta t."

 

Eternity requires the concept of time and therefore, "delta t."  But God exists at the first "delta t" and exists at the final "delta t."

 

Therefore, it is proper to say "God is eternal."

 

 

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