Following a new train of thought here, don't really know where it's gonna go.
Entropy: what is it? It's a type of theory in thermodynamics, but I don't know much about that. Essentially though, it's used to describe the tendency of something to move towards chaos. Some synonyms are collapse, decay, decline, degeneration, and worsening.
When I build a building, I make it out of wood. I reinforce that wood by getting pressed oak or a weathering spray. I build my plywood kingdom, and I live in it. In 20 years, it stands strong. In 100 years, it still stands, but in a thousand years, my house has now fallen to the ground. The wood soaked in the water from the rain, rotted, died, and eventually failed. Why?
When I play my game boy, I choose a game, put in batteries, and sit on my bed for hours and loose myself in pokémon or something as awesome. But a few days of intense playing results in dead batteries. I have to replace these in order to continue.
I am born, and my cells reproduce through mitosis to keep me alive. However, in 20 years, my growing is finished. I no longer am living, but dying slowly. My cells begin to reproduce slower, and my wounds take longer to heal. By body in unable to function like it used to, until at some point a vital element gives out and I die.
These are three examples off the top of my head of chaos. One definition of chaos is a Chasm or Abyss, and hell is often described in the bible as an Abyss. Perhaps hell isn't fire and brimstone, but a lack of order completely?
Does this mean the nature of the world is to move towards hell?
This seems to me at least to be the disposition of relationships as well. It's like having a friendship or a romantic relationship is having a car for a long time; it's a constant battle between your desire for the car to survive, and it's natural desire to fail. In order for the car to work, you have to change the oil all the time, give it gas, clean it, change your transmission fluid, and all sorts of things like that, but sometimes there is absolutely nothing you can do to prevent the car or relationship breaking down.
So if a relationship is supposed to model the relationship between god and his people, why is it that relationships deteriorate at the same rate as everything else? Of course, only a fool would think we as people are doing relationships right. It's obvious that, despite the fact that we are relational beings, we fail ultimately at the one thing that brings us fulfillment.
So relationships deteriorate at the same rate as everything else then. Does this mean that everything is just a controlled fall towards anarchy? Every attempt to add structure to anything results, eventually, in failure. If everything constantly moves towards chaos, entropy, does that mean that nothing can ever succeed? That kinda takes the motivation out of everything ever.
I'll probably come back to this later.
~wes~
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