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🗓️ 25 March 2022
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What is equality? Should it be held as a virtue? Should it be pursued? Where there be equality in the new heaven and the new earth? Or will hierarchy among humans continue into eternity? All of these questions are addressed in this episode of Questions.
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0:21.9 | Is equality, kind of with your talk, is equality even something to be strived after as a virtue, |
0:28.0 | clearly, it is not something to be achieved via government, but even in the new heaven and |
0:34.4 | new earth, will there be quality or will hierarchies among humans continue |
0:38.5 | into eternity? All right. I don't think equality is a virtue, so that's number one. And there's |
0:46.2 | not saying I endorse all of C.S. Lewis's theology. He is an interesting essay where he talks about |
0:52.4 | this. And I can't remember all his arguments in the essay, but I think it comes down to it's |
0:57.9 | a state of being and it could be beneficial in certain circumstances, but it's not a virtue |
1:03.1 | in love or these intangibles that we, like courage we were just talking about. |
1:08.0 | These are virtues that can really, like you don don't, you don't, like, watch Bob |
1:12.6 | going down this. |
1:13.0 | Like, Bob, he's so equal. |
1:14.4 | Like, right? |
1:14.8 | Bob, Bob is, Bob, yeah, Bob can be, like, charitable. |
1:19.0 | Bob can be compassionate. |
1:20.3 | Bob can't be equal. |
1:21.6 | So equal is not really a virtue. |
1:23.8 | But as far as hierarchies in heaven, I mean, there's always going to be a hierarchy between God and, |
1:29.7 | right, creation and so, so that's like the Peter Jones, like twoism, oneism, twoism thing, right? |
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