[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][01.04]

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只有下水道了~
Actually, it’s hard to say I understand. But I catch 2 key words and try to give my explanation.

Eternity:
As Mr. Boethius said, eternity is the whole, simultaneous, perfect possession of limitless life. Furthermore, he gave us some other words, as temporality, infinity, permanence and immobility, in order to be better understood. Comparing eternity to temporal things seems easily, because the world we live in is full of temporality, changing lives, changing ages, changing circumstance, according to the principles of Marxist philosophy, which are general accepted, everything is perpetual moving and developing.

Someone may say “I see, temporality is the antonym of eternity”. Absolutely no. “Temporality” is the antonym of “permanence”, since they both have one construct inside: time. Meanwhile, “temporary” is the antonym of “infinity” because “place” constructs them. The world contains time and place have no beginning and have no end is still in perpetual motion. We can not see the end or limit of the world as well as itself. But God can see everything from past to future clearly through a immobile way because He takes time and place off. We are so tiny that just have sight of present. Time seems greater than us, so it has a long vision from past to present while it has no idea about where it will flow to. Then, God has the knowledge of everything from beginning to end because of immobility. That’s why things we think occasionally from our free wills while God knows they are necessary. And that’s why the author said we should say that God is eternal but world is perpetual.

Judgement
Someone say that even though God knows everything, He does nothing just as a witness. What we should know is the difference between Christian ideology and Pre-Qin philosophy.

The spirit of Christian ideology pay attention to freedom, as the author on many occasions put emphasis on “free will”. God gives us the right of choice and let everything take its own course, He says when a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. But He does have judgement as assigning rewards to the good and punishiments to the wicked. We can learn from past that which way we choose is to reward and which way is to punishiment. So we have the idea of good and wickedness, and we can tell right from wrong.

Paralleled with Christian ideology, Pre-Qin philosophy does not give us so much freedom of chioce. For instance, Confucian ideology tells us which things we should do and which way we should choose, Legalism ideology tells us which things we shoud avoid and which way we should not choose. Confucian ideology teaches us how to love others who do right and Legalism ideology teaches us how to punish others who do wrong. We still have free wills but we have know the results before we do.