http://quimbys.com/blog/news/quimby%e2%80%99s-top-ten-best-sellers-for-the-week-of-august-17th-2008-%e2%80%93-august-23rd-2008/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:21:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://quimbys.com/blog/news/quimby%e2%80%99s-top-ten-best-sellers-for-the-week-of-august-17th-2008-%e2%80%93-august-23rd-2008/#comment-963 Frank Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:21:44 +0000 http://quimbys.com/blog/?p=867#comment-963 That’s getting back though to older forms of eschatalogical jargon (the presence of the future) that are perhaps less welcome for other reasons (but I don’t know). For myself, I don’t think so much of the presence of the future as just one of simple faith. It’s not especially a future hope at all, after all openness shouldn’t, to be consistent, speak much of the future anyway, (because on full openness principles the concept of the future is self-defeating as such a thing doesn’t exist). It’s thus no different from God determining to carry out a plan involving the nation of Israel. That’s getting back though to older forms of eschatalogical jargon (the presence of the future) that are perhaps less welcome for other reasons (but I don’t know). For myself, I don’t think so much of the presence of the future as just one of simple faith. It’s not especially a future hope at all, after all openness shouldn’t, to be consistent, speak much of the future anyway, (because on full openness principles the concept of the future is self-defeating as such a thing doesn’t exist). It’s thus no different from God determining to carry out a plan involving the nation of Israel.

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