Cox Crow

(Note that in my theological ramblings I made a wild assumption: that people do what they do in order to go to Heaven or to avoid Hell.)

11:34:20 AM #

Faith in Logic

If God knows all, and God is all, both in space and time, then, if he knows all in time, how can anything be undetermined? If nothing is undetermined, then our actions pale into insignificance. If our actions are insignificant, then why do anything? Or more precisely, lest we fall into antinomianism, why should the cares of the next life weigh on this one when this life affects not the next?

Suppose instead that God, ineffable, might allow for chance. The existence of chance does not destroy an all-knowing God, for there may be an infinity of times, all possibilities held in Mind, such that every thing, in all manner of ways, is known, determined. All is known; yet all is not one thing, but many. Our actions then are significant for some small part of possibility, changing one path while others remain untouched.

Then again, if we are saved by God's grace, and not by our works, why should the cares of the next life weigh on this one?

10:51:29 AM # Google It!

Typesetting Errors in Translation

[Lorem ipsum] has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source.

via BoingBoing comes this news that the director of publications at H-SC is, or was, before my time, a professor. Google has more dirt on the subject, including a reference to this.

I liked Mr. McClintock. He humored my attempts at making a small 'zine. Until today I did not know he was a scholar as well as a gentleman.

8:53:07 AM # Google It!