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What is your favorite quote from the book?

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What is your favorite quote from “The Advent of Time” by Indignus Servus? (A quote from the author or other referenced texts in the book.)
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This is my favorite quote from the book because it powerfully reframes how most people probably conceive of eternal existence:

“The concept of omnipresence is closely tied to the assertion in Isaiah 57:15 that God ‘inhabits eternity.’ …Man was made to inhabit eternity in a manner like that of God himself. Wisdom 2:23 makes this plain when it states, ‘God created man…in the image of his own eternity.’ On the day of judgment, when all of mankind ‘inhabits eternity’ in the direct presence of God, every person will experience omnipresence in the same manner as God. At this point, but prior to God’s deployment of the ‘fire’ that consumes all sin, everyone will have total knowledge of everything that transpired within the temporal realm. This means that every lie, fraud, rape, murder, act of torture, adulterous affair, and cruelty will be made manifest to all. As long as this shameful array of evil remains unconsumed by purifying fire, it will remain continually before everyone, as it is for God. The omnipresence of any of this sin would undoubtedly undermine redeemed man’s experience of love in some way or another. Because of this, the destruction of sin on the day of judgment will be all-encompassing. Because time itself is a direct consequence of original sin, the destruction of sin will include the destruction of the entire space-time universe.”
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My favourite quote is, "the absence of pain cannot be the supreme and overriding end for which the world exists. Rather, this world must be a place of soul-making."
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"Faith precedes all attempts to derive it from something else, because these attempts are themselves based on faith." {Page 34}
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My favorite quote from the book is, 'True happiness is not found in riches or well-being, in human fame or power, or in any human achievement - however beneficial it may be - such as science, technology, and art, or indeed in any creature, but in God alone, the source of every good and of all love.' The quote mentioned above sheds light on the essence of human life.
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