This scripture is right if rephrased: “ALL SCRIPTURES
THAT ARE INSPIRED ARE BENEFICIAL FOR TEACHING.”
For example,
Genesis portion that says there was a paradise
on earth, then it was lost when people began to act with selfishness—it makes sense.
Revelation 21:1, 5 says perfect condition would
be restored at some time in future—it makes sense.
We are now in between where we find God’s
established practice [“Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the
vile person continue to be vile”] (Revelation 22:11) which would mean that
there is no intervention in the case of individuals and in each individual use
of free-will. God, being the master of the universe, would need to act only
on whole sale basis, hence would and must restore the original perfect
condition. Law of increasing entropy would again set things into a downhill
trend, which would mean God would renew system of things again.
This is in harmony with two opposing isms—Theism
and Atheism: Theism says “From the more comes the less,” and atheism says “from
the less comes the more” [as implied by Natural Selection
which is “the process ultimately capable of generating complexity out of
simplicity,” God Delusion, Richard
Dwakins] Thus both agree that something comes from
something. If something comes from something, it has always been true, and it
has always been there—infinite into the past and infinite into the future.
It is in harmony with what we see in the
nature. Nature has a rhythm and things happen in cycles such as cycle of
night and day, cycle of season, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle… etc. We also see
the principles of such cycles reflected around us: plants grow and die leaving
seeds that ensure new lives are reborn continuously. There are cycles happening
within us too—cells in our bodies become old and are being replaced with new
ones at regular intervals! Even when we sleep at night, we typically go through
several sleep cycles. And each one of these cycles consists of 4 different
stages of sleep—awake, light sleep, deep sleep and REM sleep. Those cycles show
A MUTUAL INTERDEPENDENCE and purpose. For example, each season emerges from the
previous and gently turns into the next. Winter snows feed the ground for
Spring’s blossoms. Summer’s heat ripens the plants for Fall’s harvest. While in
day, we desire for night and vice versa. While in hot Summer we wish it was
Fall. While in cold Winter we wish it was Spring. This is true of the greater
cycle of New World and old world alternating on earth.
