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The present age

In the present age God’s intentions are frustrated by our appetites and ambitions

Dubai City View

Jesus made it clear that this world is not what God intends it to be.

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It’s not about ‘sin’ - occasional acts of evil - but living short of what God intends. 
Civilisations have come and gone, all attempts to bring in a golden age of peace and prosperity.


These attempts oscillate between:

  • setting up laws and institutions to keep people right (e.g. religion, communism, fascism). 

  • setting individuals free to do the right thing (renaissance. liberalism, conservatism).

 

They have failed because of human greed, frailty and self-centredness.


Yet we keep on trying:


‘Evidence based’ intervention by government to make everyone prosperous, safe and happy. Witness attempts to keep everyone ‘safe’ from Covid-19. See my novel,

Time, Hens and the Universal Significance of Fiddle Music


and


Indulgence: you only live once, enjoy it; be all you can be; do what you want within the law. 
Such policies fail because for a good society you need good people, and we don’t know what we mean by ‘good’.

 
So, people are lost in the present age.

 
And yet

 
it is God’s world.

‘Wealth is like sea water; the more we have the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.’

Schopenhauer

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