Age Neutral Design

[John Bauer]

Off Topic Alert (I bet you'd be surprised! @John Bauer seems to want to know EVERYTHING, and has gone a long way down that road.)

Not everything about everything, though. :þ

I strive to know “everything” about only three areas: soteriology, origins, and theological anthropology.

 

[makesends]

Not everything about everything, though. :þ

I strive to know “everything” about only three areas: soteriology, origins, and theological anthropology.

Well, getting there, then, you've learned about computers, cults, cosmology and the scales on dinosaur knees.

 

[John Bauer]

Well, getting there, then, you've learned about computers, cults, cosmology and the scales on dinosaur knees.

I know a fair bit about computers because, long before my truck-driver days, I used to have a career working with and around computers, from building computers to tech support (helping customers with email client setup, TCP/IP settings, etc.).

And I don’t know much about cults, but I do know a little bit—because I have family members caught up in that.

But I know a lot about cosmology due to origins, one of the three areas I strive to know “everything” about.

(I have no idea what “the scales on dinosaur knees” refers to.)

 

[Arial]

Like you suggested, I have the vigor and insatiable curiosity of youth (although that has been in my rear view mirror for a while now).

Trust me on this. By the time you reach 60 you will look back on your current age as "So very young!" And that does not imply that you will feel old, only that your perspective has changed. When I turned 60, I did not feel the least bit old, and I still don't feel old. I just know that the number says I am.

Personally, I can’t see why you would get that sense. If the entire history of creation flows from the eternal decree—including the eventual appearance of image-bearers on the world stage—then there is no “decision shift” in God. Something that is comprehended by us as temporally successive is nevertheless eternally unified in the divine will. God does not change; the economy (οἰκονομία) unfolds as the temporal execution of his eternal decree.

Well, yes, it is correct that if God created man pre-Adam but not as image bearers or covenantally, then what you say would be correct and I would not have the sense of God doing something one way and then deciding to redo it another way. But I don't know that that position is correct. That is where the sense I mentioned comes into play.

Again, the creation account doesn’t say it was uninhabitable. That is not what tohu wa-bohu means.

The creation account however does show God preparing Earth to be suitable for life and his purpose for Adam-man.

 

[makesends]

(I have no idea what “the scales on dinosaur knees” refers to.)

A bit of comic relief: I'm saying you know about many details nobody even thinks of.

 

[makesends]

John Bauer said:
(I have no idea what “the scales on dinosaur knees” refers to.)

A bit of comic relief: I'm saying you know about many details nobody even thinks of.

I had a nephew who was much like you as far as absorbing vast amounts of knowledge. When he died in an accident, it occurred to me (months later) that, like when Spock died in the Star Trek movie, "All that knowledge is lost, then." "NO!!! He had to have found a way...!"

I should not have mentioned that to my sister (his mother).

 

[John Bauer]

I had a nephew who was much like you as far as absorbing vast amounts of knowledge. When he died in an accident, it occurred to me (months later) that, like when Spock died in the Star Trek movie, "All that knowledge is lost, then." "NO!!! He had to have found a way...!"

I am writing a memoir for my two boys, which also includes chapters on soteriology, origins, and theological anthropology and all my thoughts and ideas on those subjects. The amount of knowledge I am carting around should not disappear with me.