Ever read The Peace Child?
Treachery was the highest ideal and Judas was the hero.
Golden Rule?
Eat your neighbor rather than love him?
What do you guys think of using Einstein’s illustration that he used to explain his general theory, the one of the passengers on a train and the people standing on the station platform, to man’s journey through life?
If you are on the train you are surrounded immediately by family and friends, or if traveling alone, by those immediately around you. Those are your peers. As you walk through the train you see many others who you do not know but with whom you do have something in common - you are all going to the same place.
During the journey you pass through many different landscapes; fertile fields, deserts, mountains, lakes, oceans, large cities, small towns, distant farm houses, dwellings close to the track, etc. All of you are seeing the same things, in general, not all will be looking at the same thing at the time and once missed it is missed, but you are taking the same route to the same destination. Basically, the landscape is time and space and you are moving through it.
From the view of those on the platform you have a peer group in each other and a common environment, the station, just as those on the train had the train in common, and you have moving scenery, the train and the people on it. Again, the platform is time and space, the ever-present present, and others are moving through it while you observe.
Are we moving through an ever-moving present or are we fixed in the ever-present present while observing the passing of the time/space continuum?
Does the Bible speak to that or is this question a waste of precious time and space?