Matters of time and eternity

When I said that Goddess can frown upon something and thus make it go away – diminish and fizzle out of existence – I knew people will ask why does any evil even exist then, if there’s a being that can basically go back in time and cancel it out of existence.

The answer, of course, is complicated, because it has to do with how humans perceive time itself.

You see, people think Eternity is, basically, an infinite quantity of time. That’s not so. Eternity is a state out of time, where each point of time is a potential “now”, everything is happening “today” and everything already happened and the whole thing about time is contained in a glass sphere of memory that you can revisit; and there might be an infinite number of such glass spheres in the mind of a God. In other words, the state of an Eternal, such as the Goddess, is literally unimaginable for a timely being.

When a God or a Goddess smiles upon you with approval, it means they saw you, and they saw that you are good, whereby you attained Eternity and stopped being something that has a beginning, duration and end in time. If a God or a Goddess frowns upon you, it means your existence does not make things better, and that might mean many things for you, none of which are good. For instance, someone might destroy you as an evil to be destroyed, and thus gain glory. Someone might transform and change you as an evil to be transformed and changed, and thus gain glory. Basically, you might be a problem that has to be solved, resulting in the greater glory of God. Alternatively, you might decide to repent and change yourself into something that is to the greater glory of God, thus gaining redemption and active participation in the glory of God.

But in any case, those who earn God’s disapproval get to have their existence in time, where it will also end. That is because Eternity belongs only to God, and if you’re not of God, you have no place there.

We could speak of things that were altered and cancelled out of existence altogether, but since they were cancelled out of existence, they didn’t happen, so there’s nothing to speak of, really. In any case, realities that transcend time and space are not well suited for the human brain, which needs time and space in order to make sense of things, which is why I translate eternal things into a language of space, time and humanity; don’t confuse that with absence of transcendence and abstraction. But one corollary remains: the fact that this world was not cancelled out of existence altogether means that its existence will ultimately serve to increase the Glory of God.

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