On Legitimacy – of the Torah and Christianity Itself – and the Subject of Time

1. If you say the pillars – the verses, the texts, the Torah itself – upon which Christianity is based are no longer legitimate, you must also say: ergo Christianity itself is illegitimate.

2. The assertion that there is Past, Present and, more especially, Future, can only, in the writer’s opinion, be accounted for as follows:-

(i) The Now is an impossible concept, not even when explained as everything that is not the past – in fact especially not so;

(ii) The fact that there is passage of time is testimony to the fact that there is Future; but

(iii) No-one is able to say with certainty that Future, the concept, can be realised – that is to say, at the point Now, Future cannot be seen. There is, though, no Now: there is only nothing instead; else Nothing can be something that we cannot explain.

By looking at the past, it can be seen that there was a Future at every point along its, the continuum.

Future is only realised therefore by looking at the past.

3. The realities around one – the seen, heard, touched, tasted, good, bad realities – are, somehow, transformed into, and consist of/take the shape of, “code” in the brain; the brain consisting of physical – and maybe non-physical – properties.

One memory is associated with others and a string of associated memories, when invoked, can be halted at any point.