Good morning. Dave Campbell has been a personal friend of mine for many years.
While attending Durham University he helped found a church that has since pioneered seven associate churches.
Dave currently lives in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada with his wife Elaine and their seven children, where they lead the Trinity Christian Fellowship.
His breakfast series this week is taken from a longer message on Christian Destiny contrasted with the Ancient Greek concept of Fate.
Now on with Breakfast !
One of the concepts that we employ when thinking of time is that of a straight line; a time line. This line we think of as solid from the past to the present becoming dotted as we view an uncertain future. This is a Biblical way of how our lives are lived. The past already decided, the future yet to be written in terms of our ongoing response to God’s will.
The Greeks had a different concept of time. They saw a continuous line of life folded to form a circle. There were no dots. The circle was closed and complete.
A life of an individual was conceived as a segment of the large circle. That section of the circle was the portion allotted to that person. It was neither to be enlarged nor diminished. It was decided by the gods and it was termed as a man’s fate.
Thus we have two diametric and opposite concepts of life. One an extended time line of events, past and future. The other a closed concept, already predetermined, called Fate.
In our next step we will be considering the implications of these contrasting positions as they work out in a person’s life-view from one or another of these concepts.
While attending Durham University he helped found a church that has since pioneered seven associate churches.
Dave currently lives in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada with his wife Elaine and their seven children, where they lead the Trinity Christian Fellowship.
His breakfast series this week is taken from a longer message on Christian Destiny contrasted with the Ancient Greek concept of Fate.
Now on with Breakfast !
One of the concepts that we employ when thinking of time is that of a straight line; a time line. This line we think of as solid from the past to the present becoming dotted as we view an uncertain future. This is a Biblical way of how our lives are lived. The past already decided, the future yet to be written in terms of our ongoing response to God’s will.
The Greeks had a different concept of time. They saw a continuous line of life folded to form a circle. There were no dots. The circle was closed and complete.
A life of an individual was conceived as a segment of the large circle. That section of the circle was the portion allotted to that person. It was neither to be enlarged nor diminished. It was decided by the gods and it was termed as a man’s fate.
Thus we have two diametric and opposite concepts of life. One an extended time line of events, past and future. The other a closed concept, already predetermined, called Fate.
In our next step we will be considering the implications of these contrasting positions as they work out in a person’s life-view from one or another of these concepts.
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