For one thing, he takes that position to be committed to a temporal beginning of the world, a bringing the world into
existence at some moment of time.
Not exact matches
Yet every
time I was ready once and for all to deny the
existence of God, to throw in my lot with Camus (whom I admired above all the existentialists),
at such
moments I would always have an unsettling experience which would start me wondering all over again.
My point is that we know so very little about our universe that I can say «
at the
moment nothing we know
of is eternal» while
at the same
time understanding that the universe could be like that electron and wink in and out
of existence in some constant renewal, from singularity to singularity and back again, but because we only see a tiny fragment
of the process we can only make sloppy assumptions as to the mechanics involved.
Part
of the answer is that these ancient events are
moments in a living process which includes also the
existence of the church
at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events
of ancient
time God was
at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.
Every
moment of our
existence before death is now colored by the realization, however dim it may be
at any given
moment, that now is the
time — «the accepted
time», if I may use here St. Paul's phrase in a very different context — when we must find ourselves in others and become what nowadays we have learned to style a man «for others».
For «Eschatology is the doctrine concerned with the limits and boundaries
of our living, in
time and
existence, toward which
at every
moment our whole lives tend.»
So though I would like to allow an actual occasion in the world to end
at any
time during a cosmic concrescence, just as such a
moment may begin
at any
time during a cosmic process, still I see no way to assure complete retention
of all the determinations
of being in
existence, without requiring every one to end just as some new
moment or other
of the cosmic series begins.
These dual
existences converge
at the exhibition site, inviting the viewer to exist for a
moment in the artists» lives, in the interim
of time passed.
Standing around arguing about what the life raft is made
of and how it came into
existence, and how it happened to be right where it is right
at this
moment in
time is rather pointless.
This fingerprint has been associated to a blockchain transaction and hence registered on the blockchain: the blockchain immutability provides robust non-refutable timestamping that will always prove without any doubt the
existence of that data in that specific status
at that precise
moment in
time.»