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To: betty boop; TXnMA; LeGrande; mrjesse; MHGinTN; xzins
Thank you so much for all your wonderful essay-posts and insights, dearest sister in Christ, and thank you for your encouragements!

As you said in an earlier post:

The time of the Eternal Now perhaps might be understood as incorporating (by virtue of its being the ultimate context of) all observations of all observers always. To an observer standing outside the finite world system, these would be perceived as simultaneous events.

But no human observer can ever "physically" do that! Man does not stand outside the system he observes, but is ineluctably part and participant of it. And yet he "shapes" the way the universe is to be seen and, thus, understood. Too often, he uses the measure of his own current (necessarily imperfect) understanding, applies it to the "objective" world, and then concludes "the world is definitively thus and so, given the criteria of judgment acceptable to ME." This is how man stumbles into the delusive position of being "the 'measure' of all things."

And as TXnMA said earlier (emphasis mine):

I submit (or agree) that it is physically impossible for any observer confined to a reference frame within our universal system to experience your "universal now".

Because of the Holy Spirit's indwelling it is possible to become more aware of being alive in Christ (timelessly) than alive in the flesh (time-bound.)

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. - Colossians 3:3

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. - John 15:4-5

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. - Romans 8:9

I testify this has become true for me.

God's Name is I AM.

661 posted on 06/12/2009 1:29:20 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl

‘Now’, any sort of ‘Now’, including an Eternal ‘Now’ is a temporal concept and God is not confined by any dimension, much less Time.


666 posted on 06/12/2009 1:37:47 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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