From yesterday's long post from BEYOND TRAGEDY:
"The Christian view of the future is complicated by the realization of
the fact that the very freedom which brings the future into view has
been the occasion for the corruption of the present in the heart of man.
Mere development of what he now is cannot save man, for development
will heighten all the contradictions in which he stands. Nor will
emancipation from the law of development and the march of time through
entrance into a timeless and motionless eternity save him. That could
only annihilate him. His hope consequently lies in a forgiveness which
will overcome not his finiteness but his sin, and a divine omnipotence
which will complete his life without destroying its essential nature."- Reinhold Niebuhr
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