How do you think about the future? I don’t mean whether it will be bright or dark. But What IS the future to you, philosophically? Is it something real, that just needs to be played out, or is it something non-existent, until it becomes present? Think about it. The ramifications are great. And I don’t mean whether or not things are predetermined. That’s a topic for another time.

It seems to me that by participating in grace, which St. John calls ‘eternal life’, one sees the future more from an eternal perspective, as something very real that just needs to play out in time. It’s sharing in God’s perspective. On the other hand, the natural fallen tendency is to see the future as a non-existent construct of the mind.

With the latter perspective, it’s easier to support abortion. That’s because it’s easier to remain oblivious to the bigger picture and to see the tiny embryo as just an inconsequential thing: denying the truth by negating the future. And this negates all the flowering of potential. But those who see reality from an eternal perspective see the tiny embryo as a mature adult who has yet to realize his/her potential. They’re able to see the entire lifecycle as real, not just that of the present moment.

To simplify, without grace, one tends to recognizes only the physical and temporal, similar to how other animals are able to recognize only the here and now. With grace, however, one is able to see actuality and potentiality together as one, knowing they simply account for different phases of being.

If any of this is true, it’s just another example of how people remain spiritually and intellectually blinded, absent being in union with God.

Hence, it follows that the wholesale slaughter of innocents will continue until one of three things come to pass: personal and cultural revival, a wholesale destruction that brings mankind to its knees, or the second coming of Christ.