The worldling has no time for eternity.
Category: Time and Eternity
The One Man Who Pre-Exists his Birth
Christianity is curiously Platonistic about Christ: he is the one man who pre-exists his conception and birth. "Before Abraham was, I am." (John 8:58) But no such Platonism about any other human, not even Mary, Theotokos (God-bearer).
If, as Chalcedonian orthodoxy has it, Jesus Christ is fully man and fully God, then he is man and a man. (There is a riddle here respecting man and a man, both in Christ and in Adam, which I won't pursue here.)
What tense is the 'exists' in 'pre-exists' and the 'am' in the Johannine verse? What should we call it? The eternally present tense?
The Ersatz Eternity of the Past
Denied by Lukasiewicz!
Top o' the Stack.
What Lukasiewicz might have said to Leśniewski: Logically, we are poles apart!