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2 posted on 01/20/2018 7:13:56 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (Lutheran pastor, LCMS)
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To: Charles Henrickson
When all is said in done in our lives -- and it's possible to do that long before death .. but if not before, then at our so called deaths -- the entire world and what we call/called 'my life' will be seen to have been an illusion - a word without an object of reference. It didn't just pass away, it just isn't and therefore never was.

Eternity is not 'infinitely long time.' It's 'no time' and therefore no spans of time, nor a lack of time.

And yet, when all that illusion is seen for what it is - a sign without a location pointed at - and so the illusion is put down, there is still something that remains. What is this something?

God can not be found in time, and therefore can not be found within a story. One has to be able to exit the story, exit time, to find God. There is no place to look once one has exited. The exiting is itself God.

In the 'world', to enter a room, you must open a door, exit the outside, and then walk into the room.

With God, the opening of the door is itself the room. The outside is 'the world.'

To exit the story ... which is untrue if one believes it to be true, and if one knows it to be untrue and not some other thing, then it is what it is, and is in itself God ... the world must be abandoned. But where can one go to abandon it if there is 'no place' and 'no time?'

That is why Heaven is already here and one is already always in it, he just doesn't know. One can go to noplace and notime wherever he is in any given moment, all he must bring with him is no place and no time and no-thing.

4 posted on 01/20/2018 7:49:30 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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