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Entropy and The Bible: Understanding Decay and Renewal
In this episode, we explore the concept of entropy and how it re… (visit YouTube for more)
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Entropy is that concept that everything is tending towards randomness, we are losing energy, the world is decaying. We find this concept in physics, but we also find it in the Bible. 1 John chapter 2 verse 17. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
One of the implications of the Fall is that stuff is degrading. Our bodies degrade. Our food, if we don’t eat it, rots. This world is perishing, it’s passing away. Quite literally, it’s going wrong on us, beneath our feet. And this is because we right at the start said to God, we want to do it our way, not your way.
So John notes this. But he notes it with joy, because although this world is passing away, that means we are losing with it decay, we are losing unrighteousness, we are losing sin and death and destruction.
