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4.22.2011

What replaces good and evil

When evil is done away with...

I've written this before (about what replaces good and evil when evil is done away with, in other words: why Heaven won't be boring), but along those lines it recently occurs to me that one of the unique aspects of the Homeric epics that impresses under the surface is the 'good vs. good' aspect of the drama. And the replacement of the usual good vs. evil with the vertical levels of being represented. The big vertical division being between the heroes and the Olympian Pantheon. The upper realm isn't evil, yet it creates friction and heat and conflict for the lower level, yet with the purpose of developing being from lower to higher. It also gives inspiration and help. But the heroes have to approach it and be able to approach it.

This is how God's Kingdom (Heaven) is and will be for glorified man. Heaven will have drama and conflict and goals to achieve and give meaning, but it wont be in the banal theatre of good and evil (original sin and fallen nature). It will be heat and inspiration between vertical levels (or coming down from higher levels), when development approaches new upward thresholds.

Yes, Kingdoms are vertical structures, not flattened out egalitarian hack zones; and when God is King the room for upward movement is infinite.

Evil is indeed banal, and it will be good to move on from it (to make a great understatement) in the great resurrection of believers and the new Heaven and Earth.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Overtly using Pagan mythology in your theology? And yet you refuse to admit that you get the concept of total hereditary depravity from a Manichean myth rather than the Bible. Just admit that all your theology is tainted with paganism and be done with it!

April 30, 2011 at 3:36 PM  
Blogger c.t. said...

General Revelation has degrees of truth in it. You still don't understand total depravity (or total inability).

April 30, 2011 at 10:46 PM  

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