Related to this is the idea that evil is completely parasitical. It cannot exist apart from a host. All it can do is subtract some being while leaving other being in place. It cannot create or grow or multiply except in the way that cancer does.
Those who love God and His good world should take that to heart. The grip of the world, the flesh, and the devil are completely dependent on the Good, and have no existence apart from it.
(Incidentally, this is another reason I think annihilationism is false--God's greatest punishment on the unsaved is to keep giving them some of His goodness: being.)
To hypothesize that our being and our doing can be separated might be to admit that both have purpose alone and together. How DO we live as beings and not just as doings? How do we appreciate our ability to do and not do? Can we learn to balance the separation? Can we manage their marriage? If I'm the sum of my doings or not-doings, then I'm currently not doing much and am not worth much. But I also don't know how to just be, exist, enjoy- so what am I? Sigh, oh to just BE A FRENCH FRY, DAMMIT.
Related to this is the idea that evil is completely parasitical. It cannot exist apart from a host. All it can do is subtract some being while leaving other being in place. It cannot create or grow or multiply except in the way that cancer does.
Those who love God and His good world should take that to heart. The grip of the world, the flesh, and the devil are completely dependent on the Good, and have no existence apart from it.
(Incidentally, this is another reason I think annihilationism is false--God's greatest punishment on the unsaved is to keep giving them some of His goodness: being.)
To hypothesize that our being and our doing can be separated might be to admit that both have purpose alone and together. How DO we live as beings and not just as doings? How do we appreciate our ability to do and not do? Can we learn to balance the separation? Can we manage their marriage? If I'm the sum of my doings or not-doings, then I'm currently not doing much and am not worth much. But I also don't know how to just be, exist, enjoy- so what am I? Sigh, oh to just BE A FRENCH FRY, DAMMIT.