When Should God Have Created? The Paradox of Eternal Love and Time
If God is eternal and God is love, then love eternally creates. But why does creation appear to have a beginning? The paradox runs deep: endless succession suggests no true starting point, infinite containment points to creation existing eternally in God’s mind, while singular emergence implies love once existed without creation. Each possibility challenges our categories of time and reason. Perhaps the question cannot be solved—but that itself is instructive. Creation flows eternally from love, reminding us that awe, not resolution, is the truest response.
When Love Looks Like Target
Target’s inclusivity campaigns—whether Pride displays or mannequins of diverse body types—have often stirred controversy. Yet seen through the lens of love as structure, they become something more: acts of dignity and restoration. Love is not partisan or sentimental; it has form and logic. It protects, restores, and reduces suffering. By portraying disability, difference, and diversity as natural, Target expands the boundaries of belonging. Christians should not condemn but recognize such efforts as expressions of love’s work in society—quiet, imperfect, yet transformative.