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RE: The Most Popular Person In Heaven...
Simple answer: Massive parallelism. A modest example from Acts 9:
10 In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision, "Ananias!""Yes, Lord," he answered. The Lord told him, "Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight."
The Lord is simultaneously interacting with two people in two places.
Yeah. It's like that.
Yeah, I like your simple answer.
He already does that, and so there's no reason not to in the future. I suspect that we will all also have the benefit of having all the advantages of "time" without any of the drawbacks (such as not being able to be in two places at the same "time." )
Thanks for your encouraging comment! :) :D
So, thinking more about what you've said... ;)
One key difference is that, for what I imagine, in the New Heavens and New Earth, if multiple people want to have a personal audience with the LORD, massive parallelism in the physical realm will have to be a possibility...
And whether that may be done by temporary "task spawning" - i.e. cloning/duplication of the LORD's (or our) personal bodies (perhaps possible, as they are "glorified" bodies) or by multiple time/consciousness threads that branch off, who knows?
Computer science does give us some interesting conceptual prototypes for this. ;)
Thanks for your stimulating interaction, Stan! Blessings!
"Whenever two or more of you are gathered in my name, there I am also."
So this is going on all the time. It just depends on whether the Lord turns on "visibility mode" for any particular person or group.
Then there is the question of "what is eternity" and what does the Lord mean by "I AM". We may be able to be everywhere and everywhen all at once.
I suspect that linear motion through time at the constant rate of one second per second is an artifact of this reality.
Yes! I couldn't agree more! :)
I've been thinking about that aspect of time since the age of five.... :O
And "everywhen" is such a good word... I love it!
That is where the LORD dwells...
Thanks, Stan, for reminding me of this verse this morning...
My heart really needed it! :D