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Monday 30 November 2009

Part of the problem with end-times theology is that western people have defined time as a line. We think in terms of beginning, middle, and end. Thus, to consider the “end times” is to anticipate the end of the world as we know it; a universal devastation on the scale of 2012, when history ceases to be. Events follow one another in a cause-and-effect, logical sort of way. But the biblical texts of Advent point in another, more mysterious direction — that time is not a line. Rather, time exists in the being of God. Indeed, from this perspective, time is timeless. Think about it for just a moment: What do the divisions past, present, and future really mean? When does the present slip to the past? When does the future arrive? When is the now of the present? Isn’t time much more of a wonder than a line? Diana Butler Bass

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