Monday, April 21, 2014

Alma 41

(April 17, 2014)
I don’t know why it is that we arrogantly presume that the eternal world must necessarily respond to the way we feel this world behaves.  We see competition, and strife, and we feel like a similar thing must be an eternal principle.  After all, it is at least my believe that the world was created in part through the Lord’s manipulation of evolution – creative destruction, if you will.

But why assume similar principles hold in the world to come?  In a world without entropy, is there any reason to believe that things wouldn’t be dramatically different?  In a world without time, what would change?  I think we picture a Heaven and a Hell far too like our modern world without consideration of the ways that they would necessarily be different.

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