Sunday, July 13, 2008

Ockham's razor slashes again.

At first it horrified me. I used Ockham and his razor to slash away the story parts from Adam's Clay, leaving no more than the essential thought. I found that my book had reasoned away the need for God's design of the World.
Since the book is a allegory of the Spirit filled Christian life you can understand my panic.
In the story Sam Goma has learned how to time-travel, both forward and back in time and while he does this he can change things - to design and change the design, for better or for worse, and do it over and over until he creates the design with an acceptable outcome - something I would normally expect God to determine.
This strange turn of event was precipitated by Sam's converts burning churches, temples and mosques ( a la Martin Luther's followers) and he is considering his options. One is to go back in time and change things and prevent the disaster.
This is when I applied the razor, but is the thought not simply profound? That we as God's instruments - Spirit-filled Christians - must carry out God's Plan.
If by some 'miracle' we discover time travel, it is not so that we can 'fix' a flaw in the design?

Here's the challenge - even if we cannot travel through time, we can still change the future - to implement God's plan and design for the future, by fixing things distorted and damaged by the law of sin and death.
Maybe if we start doing things correctly we may yet experience the wonders of time-travel.