Mankind is a paradoxical creation; in that, mankind wants to know things, and, yet, knowledge must be based on a certain thing that cannot be known. The thing that cannot be known is this: reliability. In the scientific community, for instance; there are things known as, the Laws of Thermodynamics. These have been accepted as being somewhat immutable. However, let me place a theory beside those Laws. Let us add the theory of evolution to the Laws of Thermodynamics. When we make this combination, then we have a thing that can change. The thing that we cannot totally rely on is that the Laws of Thermodynamics are not evolving. So, if these Laws are evolving, then we have no hope of knowing how to approach reliance on a long-term relationship with nature.
Think about this: what if adhesiveness decides to evolve and, concreteness follows suit. Then, we would not know that a building that has been constructed will always have the kind of adhesiveness that keeps the joints glued together. Moreover, we will not know that the bricks will retain their solidity, and not become as mud, again. The reason that this would become a problem is because; we would have no way of controlling the evolution of these accepted facts of our universe. Indeed, there have been several science fiction writers that have presented views of what might happen when our, assumed to be solid, proofs of the universe do not apply. Nonetheless; in spite of that potential fluidity of science, we must do something; mustn’t we?
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Previously, we introduced that, exercise in logic, because that is the same type of analysis that must be done when we are approaching a lasting love relationship. In this analysis, we are speaking of the relationship that precedes marriage. In this analysis, the assumed facts that come from this relationship are what form the basis for imagining that there will be a lasting marriage. As an additional benefit of the analysis, we may build on our knowledge of why we see so much time spent, in the Bible, trying to establish the dimensions of a pre-marriage commitment. As I think about this, I am reminded of this; one of the longest courtships of record, in the Bible.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
(Numbers 14:26-32)
No, we are not saying that, this is the longest courtship, ever. Among mankind, I can believe that, there have been longer courtships. Also, I am not saying that this is the only somewhat lopsided courtship, ever. Among mankind, there are some men who have devoted their life to a much younger girl child, and passed through the time required for her to mature, for her to be able to fully participate in the marriage relationship. That is what the Man, the LORD, did for the child, the little ones of Israel. It was a most unique motivation process, as joined with, necessary purification and excising of a certain cancer.
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