Time and The Knowledge of Good and Evil

(Originally written July 29, 2006 in Book 7)

Time

Time is a creation of God as a boundary for finite creatures. Infinity is not a ceaseless amount of time it is an existence apart from time.

Time is finite as an hour is finite. An hour is merely sixty minutes. A minute is merely 60 seconds. A second is a combination of smaller units. This pointless process can continue ceaselessly. But, that is not infinitude.

God exists as infinitude. He is infinite. Thus, rules that apply to anything finite do not pertain to infinite beings.

The knowledge of Good and Evil

Prior to the Fall of man his possibilities were endless in a certain manner as he was not subject to death. Thus, man was not hampered by a horizontal way. But man did not have access to the full knowledge of good and evil. Thus, he was limited in a vertical way. (Horizontal and vertical only stand for ways, the choice to label which as which was merely personal preference).

After the Fall man acquired the full knowledge of good and evil, thus remaining the limit of knowledge of good and evil. But it created a limit of death.

Unfortunately man has only the faculty to comprehend so much of good and evil. This is the disease all humans now suffer: humanity possess an unlimited knowledge both good and evil, but only possess a small amount of time to comprehend it. If man could live long enough he could theoretically comprehend it all and become the equal, yet opposite of God (undoing them both). Death imposed on mankind was punishment for his sin and the same time an act of mercy.