Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an intergral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on it's evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
There will be two aspects to the truth, an internal one and an external one.
The external aspect is the factual occurrences, those things that took place, by who, when, where, why, and other facts. It may be that we will never be able to fully know or recover those things simply by external means.
The internal aspect is what meaning has been given to any real events, whether known or unknown. In other words, everyone will have a different take on things, and have a different view or understanding of history, based on what they know etc. What is really important, in my opinion, is what God - aka the Creator - thinks about our history and how God views history.
Ultimately, God knows all human history and all history within the universe. That information is stored spiritually, and given the right conditions, we might access that information spiritually, in order to fill out our grasp of the external facts.
Curiously, I was thinking about the question you are asking just this morning. So again, I reiterate: What's important is God's view of history. From God's viewpoint, what is the purpose of history? What is it's destination?
Much of the information about God's view of history is revealed in scripture, but to be frank, most of that information isn't very widely understood, in my opinion. The concepts are fairly simply, but extremely complex in manifestation, and theology for the last 2000 years has been working with limited information, because Jesus was rejected and he had to pay the price to secure salvation, when acceptance of Jesus would have been a completely different ballgame.