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Christ: Our Eternal Entertainment :: Desiring God: "There are many things in this world that compete to capture our hearts and minds as entertainment. Here, Jonathan Edwards exhorts believers to choose Christ as their all-satisfying treasure in this life, thereby securing him as their entertainment for all eternity.
When the saints shall see Christ’s glory and exaltation in heaven, it will indeed possess their hearts with the greater admiration and adoring respect, but it will not awe them into any separation, but will serve only to heighten their surprise and joy, when they find Christ condescending to admit them to such intimate access, and so freely and fully communicating himself to them. So that if we choose Christ for our friend and portion, we shall hereafter be so received to him, that there shall be nothing to hinder the fullest enjoyment of him, to the satisfying the utmost cravings of our souls. We may take our full swing at gratifying our spiritual appetite after these holy pleasures. Christ will then say, as in Song 5:1 “Eat, O friends, drink, yea, drink abundantly O beloved.” And this shall be our entertainment to all eternity! There shall never be any end of this happiness, or anything to interrupt our enjoyment of it, or in the least to molest us in it!"
–1736, “The Excellency of Christ”
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Collins: Why this scientist believes in God - CNN.com
Collins: Why this scientist believes in God - CNN.com: "Collins: Why this scientist believes in God
POSTED: 7:15 a.m. EDT, April 5, 2007
More on CNN TV: Questions of science, sex, salvation. What is a Christian? A two-part special on 'Anderson Cooper 360°,' Thursday, 10 p.m. ET.
By Dr. Francis Collins
Special to CNN
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Editor's note: Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. His most recent book is 'The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.'
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CNN) -- I am a scientist and a believer, and I find no conflict between those world views.
As the director of the Human Genome Project, I have led a consortium of scientists to read out the 3.1 billion letters of the human genome, our own DNA instruction book. As a believer, I see DNA, the information molecule of all living things, as God's language, and the elegance and complexity of our own bodies and the rest of nature as a reflection of God's plan.
I did not always embrace these perspectives. As a graduate student in physical chemistry in the 1970s, I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and"
POSTED: 7:15 a.m. EDT, April 5, 2007
More on CNN TV: Questions of science, sex, salvation. What is a Christian? A two-part special on 'Anderson Cooper 360°,' Thursday, 10 p.m. ET.
By Dr. Francis Collins
Special to CNN
Adjust font size:
Decrease fontDecrease font
Enlarge fontEnlarge font
Editor's note: Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. His most recent book is 'The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.'
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CNN) -- I am a scientist and a believer, and I find no conflict between those world views.
As the director of the Human Genome Project, I have led a consortium of scientists to read out the 3.1 billion letters of the human genome, our own DNA instruction book. As a believer, I see DNA, the information molecule of all living things, as God's language, and the elegance and complexity of our own bodies and the rest of nature as a reflection of God's plan.
I did not always embrace these perspectives. As a graduate student in physical chemistry in the 1970s, I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and"
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