On “You Are Gods”
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I have watched your talk on Universalism a total of 46 times and read That All Shall Be Saved 5 times. I used to be a Calvinist, and all I can say to you, Dr. Hart, is thank you. Your work saved me from absolute nihilistic despair when I was beyond depressed. Thank you so incredibly much and may God bles you.
Milbank says that "the Fall remains absolutely incomprehensible," and you concur: "Evil, like the designated hitter rule, is just a mystery that no one could penetrate . . . how this could have happened."
I guess I had imagined that its occurrence is explicable in something like the following way. Created rationality is necessarily finite, and finite rationality is necessarily capable of error, and evil is just a kind of error, namely, acting on a mistaken understanding of the good. So, Adam, Eve, the snake . . . whoever, just happened to make an error of judgment.
No doubt I'm missing something. I am a bit uneasy about the sheer chance of it all. The Fall as bad luck. It could have gone the other way, but for some reason, it just didn't.
As for the designated-hitter rule, it's perfectly explicable. Whatever the pitcher is doing with the bat, it's not baseball. It certainly doesn't look like batting, much less hitting.