The problem seems to consist of the fact that there was an insurmountable primary asymmetry at the very foundation of Creation. That asymmetry particularly relates to the problem of time. For God, there is no time. For He is eternal. For us, human beings, everything we experience is necessarily in time — for we have, by God's decision, been manifested into a divinely created reality that has spatial and temporal — "this world" — dimensions, manifesting in the famous 4D block of Newtonian observation.
Perhaps I digress. If so, sum up the digression and move on: I just try to remember all the above, and prayerfully receive whatever graces the Lord may bestow on me so to enlighten the subject under scrutiny, before I start shooting off my mouth.
Folks have been working on problems like this, centuries, nay millennia, before John Calvin or Martin Luther were born. Is it asking too much, to ask whether YOU appreciate that?
Of course I ponder such things from . . . uhhhh . . .
time to time.
I must add, Dear Heart . . .
you seemed to know me much better before this thread.
Now it seems as though you haven’t known me near as well as I thought; else you’d not have said some of the things you’ve said of me or asked of me on this thread. Puzzling.
I think your . . . uhhh . . .
[time warning]
earlier self . . . knew me more accurately and better.
And I think I knew the . . . uhhh . . .
earlier Betty better than I know this later Betty.
Puzzling indeed.