At first glance, concepts like creation, forever, and purpose have a clear, unconstrained, and universal connotation. Closer scrutiny, however, suggests that such concepts can lose relevance within the confines of our five-sense-bound faculties and become enigmatic.
We often treat these concepts as if their applicability is unbounded, and extend their meaning to answer questions that they are not really capable of addressing. For instance, we assume that God had some purpose for creating the universe. Likewise, we assume heaven and hell last forever.
The book Thinking Is Authorized! has an intriguing follow-up discussion about those concepts.
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