The Advent of Time

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If God is all-loving and all-powerful why do evil and suffering exist?</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Advent of Time</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> begins with the premise that the purpose of man's existence is to live forever in a timeless loving relationship with God and one another. It then identifies and examines the prerequisites of relational love (faith free will selflessness and two others) to explain why God's pursuit of a timeless reciprocal loving relationship with man necessitated that He create the very conditions that allow for the possibility of evil and suffering.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With this conceptual framework in place the book explores the different modes of existence experienced by pre-fallen humanity who existed in a transcendent state of being where time itself did not exist (a realm of non-time). It then analyzes the relationship between the timeless pre-fallen realm and the time-based post-fallen realm explaining how a single self-centered decision made by a timeless transcendent human being could simultaneously alter </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>every</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> point within linear time. This analysis-which centers on the assertion that time itself is a product of original sin-supplies the insights necessary to reconcile the biblical account of direct creation with evolution.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The analysis of how the prerequisites of love intersect with the differences between finite being and timeless being also provides the insights necessary to answer the theological difficulties raised by the biblical descriptions of hell. In so doing </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Advent of Time</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> provides a comprehensive solution to the problem of evil and pain one that strictly adheres to both Christian orthodoxy and the well-established findings of natural science.</span></p>