I've been back and forth about trying to push out a couple of ideas into short stories here on the stack. I feel like the premises are at least good, but i just never feel up to it by the time i get home from work.
Also, i dig where you're going with the whole jazz/improv/freedom thought train, but i feel like i have to pull the cord on something you keep dancing around: "Death is defeated" just-is The Thing about Jesus. Heaven and eternity absolutely must be free of Death.
Re-birth is salvaging something that was broken, but as i mentioned on one of these previously, salvaged Good is not intrinsically better than novel and virgin Good. The opposite, in fact. Deviating from the routine, experimenting, messing around, is not the same class of thing as Breaking something which is Good at its essence, which is what Death and Tragedy are.
good luck on your fiction. i hope you get into the groove of it.
as for the other thing, yes, that's the typical reading of his words. but if you believe like me that he was the main creator of our world, then you can't just listen to what the man says. you gotta see how the world works. and what he says might mean in that context. the implications of 'no death in any form' are many, and if pursued to the end, they mean a heaven that contradicts the one Jesus seemed to talk about (how can you have food and drink in heaven if there's no death, for example). in the end, a heaven with zero death is a heaven with zero life, or activity. one must choose one's interpretation. always.
I suppose i could entertain the possibility that other creatures "die", though this is also a hard thing, but other creatures are in many ways not like us. Perhaps dying means something different for them.
But i do not think Jesus has died or is dying, and i most *certainly* don't think Father is, or Mother. And if so be the case, we also should not expect to die, as we are Their very Race and Seed, and assume Their nature when we rise again.
I've read and liked all your novels, but I never read the fiction posts on this blog. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe blogging just isn't a great format for fiction.
it's true there is no fiction culture online the way blogging became it's own thing as opposed to non fiction books and essays. but who knows, there might be one day something.
I've been back and forth about trying to push out a couple of ideas into short stories here on the stack. I feel like the premises are at least good, but i just never feel up to it by the time i get home from work.
Also, i dig where you're going with the whole jazz/improv/freedom thought train, but i feel like i have to pull the cord on something you keep dancing around: "Death is defeated" just-is The Thing about Jesus. Heaven and eternity absolutely must be free of Death.
Re-birth is salvaging something that was broken, but as i mentioned on one of these previously, salvaged Good is not intrinsically better than novel and virgin Good. The opposite, in fact. Deviating from the routine, experimenting, messing around, is not the same class of thing as Breaking something which is Good at its essence, which is what Death and Tragedy are.
good luck on your fiction. i hope you get into the groove of it.
as for the other thing, yes, that's the typical reading of his words. but if you believe like me that he was the main creator of our world, then you can't just listen to what the man says. you gotta see how the world works. and what he says might mean in that context. the implications of 'no death in any form' are many, and if pursued to the end, they mean a heaven that contradicts the one Jesus seemed to talk about (how can you have food and drink in heaven if there's no death, for example). in the end, a heaven with zero death is a heaven with zero life, or activity. one must choose one's interpretation. always.
I suppose i could entertain the possibility that other creatures "die", though this is also a hard thing, but other creatures are in many ways not like us. Perhaps dying means something different for them.
But i do not think Jesus has died or is dying, and i most *certainly* don't think Father is, or Mother. And if so be the case, we also should not expect to die, as we are Their very Race and Seed, and assume Their nature when we rise again.
we'll find out one day
I've read and liked all your novels, but I never read the fiction posts on this blog. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe blogging just isn't a great format for fiction.
it's true there is no fiction culture online the way blogging became it's own thing as opposed to non fiction books and essays. but who knows, there might be one day something.