why must we wait till the end of time for things to shake themselves out right ... can't be god's fault that things aren't right ... must be ours ... must god wait for us then ... then we're the architects of our own salvation ... the ultimate case of getting into heaven when we do if we do is us ... even if we're just the occasion or the final tap for the last thing needed to fall into place ... unless this theory is somehow wrong and we see it's wrong in part because it doesn't work ... wrong from the beginning in the attitude or direction we take to look at the thing ... not that we didn't get it right originally but then we get distracted and lose our place and have to reference the commandments to get back to where we started ... not that we didn't walk in righteousness when we were young but again being distracted and not unbefuddled we think obedience is something we've yet to achieve ... forgetting that we had it when it was cheap ... indeed so easy it was free ... and our parents and elders sighed and called it a name we'd had no need to learn ... innocence in good faith
cf moltmann, theology of hope, 2.6
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