[Pete]

If God is omniscient and omnipotent, as generally depicted, then everything we do and ever will do is already known. In the mind of God we as static as butterflies pinned to a museum display for amusement -- perhaps the amusement of other gods and demigods and angels. All our hopes and fears, all our ambitions, all our joys and sufferings are like a two dimensional tapestry in the eyes of God, who is outside time, and can see the whole of time -- past, present and future -- at once.

Your comments may adequately display your lack of theological training and study but they do little to answer my original question.

[js1138]

:)

[va4me]

Pete, there is a book called "Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker that you might be interested in reading.

Most of what we humans spend our time doing is designed to keep us from thinking about the reality that we are all destined to die.

The book won the pulitzer prize in 1974.