Infinity, it seems, is a long, long time. Having never even approached infinity I sometimes wonder why we even have a word for it. The same can be said for “eternity.” Eternity seems like a few hours past infinity doesn’t it? Why in the world do we have such words if we live for an average of seventy years? Could it be that the words of our much maligned book, the Bible, has something to do with our coining of those words? Yes, the Bible is also your book.
Being bluntly honest, I have no idea where those words, infinity and eternity, came from but the same thing can be said for the article, “the.” Still, we speak of the “beyond” when we say those words. Beyond what? Well, how about life? Is our seventy or so years it? This is the question that drives us all nuts because it takes faith to even start down the path to infinity or eternity. Faith stems from things unseen as given us by a being unseen. Is that why Jesus, in part, came here? To fill in the blanks?
I offer these musings only as conversation starters and do so because not a lot of people speak of these things anymore. To me, this is a shame because it is the path that these words offer which has shaped our world. Belief in something more than our pitiful lives. If yours is not pitiful please excuse me but when I speak of these two words it fills me with wonder. Wonder that we have faith even now when our world is on the brink of something not very good. What that is the Bible tells us but does so in a way that requires study to understand the cohesion of the Bible from day one to now. It is a wonderful and inciteful journey, that. I recommend starting at the beginning, read a few paragraphs, then strike out on your own.
The beginning is the book, Genesis, and means exactly what it says: the start of everyting we know, or, think we know? The universe is far more complex than even science is aware of and it could be that it took a universe to allow the existence of our Earth. That seems a rather random supposition doesn’t it? You need to understand the Bible and you cannot do that and still think you understand God, or . . . believe in the lack thereof. It is called, learning. And, you only have seventy-something years to be instructed. I began at around age twelve and I still don’t know as much as I wish I did. It might be just the effort to understand? We’ll find out won’t we?
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