Re: tsunami impact on animals, does night on Earth end?

The point I was trying to make is that this passage seems to indicate that
there is some reason to look with favor on a condition in which there is
no night. One does not have to take the passage literally to get this
impression.

Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 drsyme@cablespeed.com wrote:

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> Rev 22
> 1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life,
> bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of
> the Lamb 2 through the middle of the street of the city.
> On either side of the river is the tree of life with its
> twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and
> the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
> 3 Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the
> throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his
> servants will worship him; 4 they will see his face, and
> his name will be on their foreheads. 5 And there will be
> no more night; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the
> Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever
> and ever.
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> Do you take this entire passage literally Gordon? The
> word translated night, is nux. This can also mean:
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> 1) night
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> 2) metaph. the time when work ceases
> a) the time of death
> b) the time for deeds of sin and shame
> c) the time of moral stupidity and darkness
> d) the time when the weary and also the drunken
> give themselves up to slumber
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> Admittedly, my views on the goodness of creation, and the
> lack of a need for it to be "fixed", is based largely on
> my eschatological views. Without getting into great
> details about it, I dont think there is any prophecy
> calling for a literal destruction of the current creation,
> (or Earth) and Christ returning to institute a new
> physical paradise on Earth.
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> Let me ask you. How much of your views about a 'broken'
> creation are based upon futurist presuppositions, that
> claims there will be a literal New Heavan, and Earth, and
> that Christ will institute a future physical paradise on
> Earth?
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Received on Tue Jan 11 14:00:06 2005