is still wonderful! These days , the shuttle Endeavour space travel and astronauts meet in space station. Hence, perhaps, one day they will leave to other stars. Incredible success of human intelligence and teamwork!
But despite this great achievement, one wonders: Why all this? What do we want ? We feel we too cramped on our planet? What pushes us to come out well? Scientific curiosity? Desire of conquest? What else?
mixed with admiration, criticism is not lacking in the people. I mean all that money spent while ... But I'm not sure there would be fewer poor and hungry if all those billions had been used for humanitarian purposes! It seems clear that the root cause of poverty is elsewhere: in the heart of man, and I can not rule out mine!
But after this digression, let us see things differently. We can not stop humans from the natural desire to progress. Desire for expansion, discovery, and perhaps a new world where peace and brotherhood, etc.. I do not know if this reasoning is that researchers at the NASA . Even without religious references, we all have, more or less, a kind of nostalgia for a happiness that had already existed, a "lost paradise". How did he lost and how do I find? Outside of biblical revelation (1), I do not see an answer.
Some progress in seeking a solution to our prison in this world. It would be unwise to disparage the progress itself. It can obviously improve our living conditions. Does it still it facing the right direction. But he can never free ourselves from the limitations of time and space. The solution is to another level.
This life, despite all its attractiveness and beauty of creation, is felt as a living "in exile". Hence the idea of a "lost paradise". We seek to "recover" our true country, a stable state, beyond time and space where there is universal brotherhood flawless.
It is indeed touching to see the astronauts arrived on the space station, kissing like old friends found when they were of different nationalities, above all political conflicts. But here, in these "reunion" aliens, time is still there. This famous time, because of the finiteness , aging men and things. We 're prisoners. The fact of escape from our planet and the laws of gravity does release or time or space.
should find something else that progress as we conceive it. Believers or not, we know only one thing we can free up time: death. Those who have been there never returned. We did not come back. Death is the cure for the door and lead us out of spacetime. Unless you prefer to see it pass into nothingness! Whatever our choice, it is a must. Live outside space-time, for the Christian faith, this is: eternity.
progress, spatial or otherwise, does not lead us to eternity. But it can be filled with the hope of eternity. In this case, death directs us to the right place and the proper remedy. If progress is definitely improves our earthly condition, and so much better, it can not however be confused with "Paradise Regained", our city final.
(1) For those who love theology and metaphysics, here is a document that can help them understand the "Paradise Lost":
http://biblio.domuni.org/articlestheo/pecheor/po000004.htm
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