Time matters; it was part of the original good creation. Though it may well itself be transformed in ways we cannot at present even begin to imagine, we should not allow ourselves to be seduced by the language of eternity (as in the phrase 'eternal life,' which in the New Testament regularly refers not to a nontemporal future existence but to 'the life of the coming age') into imagining, as one old song puts it, that 'time shall be no more.' No: 'the old field of space, time, matter and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.
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