Physical Science, Chemistry, and Physics Instructor | @PBAUniversity & @EMU_News Alumuni | Ephesians 2:8-9 | James 2:17 | not a citizen of this world ✝️
@DeChristianLife “Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,
Your affectionate uncle
SCREWTAPE”
CS Lewis
His omnipotence is rightly understood as the ability to do what he wills, but he can only will what is in accord with His character.”
John Polkinghorne
2/2
“… the God, who is eternally free is not an imperious dictator, exercising, and arbitrary well. He is internally constrained by the consistency of his own character.
1/2
“In this new setting, while evil loses nothing in its poignancy and horror, it ceases to be an incomprehensible element in the structure of the world and becomes a natural feature.”
Teilhard de Chardin
Decoherence in quantum mechanics does NOT fully explain:
❌ why one specific outcome is experienced
❌ whether collapse is “real” or just appearance
❌ what determines the single observed result
“If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad."
If creatures are truly free, they must be able to choose against God. Real love requires freedom. If humans could only obey God automatically, love would not be meaningful.
CS Lewis
God being sovereign does not necessarily mean God morally approves every event that occurs.
Rather, sovereignty means nothing ultimately escapes God’s knowledge or ability to work through history.
God’s sovereign will — the larger purposes God ultimately accomplishes, even through human resistance.
God does not need us to accomplish His will, but our desire should be that His will be done.
@crusalem@HustleBitch_ Angels can transverse time in any direction compared to humans which can only move linearly.
Time is a human construct that only measures change.
“If things can improve [emerge], this means that there must be some absolute standard of good above and outside the cosmic process to which that process can be approximate.”
CS Lewis
“Consciousness by its nature is singular… the total number of all consciousnesses is just one. Their multiplicity is only apparent, in truth there is only one mind.”
Edward Schrödinger
@HustleBitch_ Eternity, αἰώνιος [aiōnios] adj., in Greek means of that which is without beginning; of that which is without a beginning or end; or that which is without end.
Interestingly, science is now telling us that the past, the present, and future exist simultaneously.