Empathy in Creation- Good/Evil Wickedness/Mercy Parity/End Game
I just realized that my concept of Song of Songs 8:6 is incomplete "For love is as strong as death..."
Consider the distance between Genesis 4:15
But the Lord said to him, “Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
and Genesis 4:24
"If Cain is avenged seven times,
then Lamech seventy-seven times.”
The first the Lord declared; the second Lamech declared of himself. There is a distance between these verses, in word, time, perspective, knowledge, and intention.
While good and evil was known by mankind from just before Eden's exile, when would wickedness have been understood by man? When would the wickedness of man be understood by God? Wickedness feels like a compound concept- as it requires evil to be seen from multiple viewpoints- that would require empathy of an even more complex kind. In mathematical terms it feels as though this degree of empathy would need to be imaginary, and likely imaginary/complex to an equal degree of dimensions (give or take) as there are perspectives. I recall hearing once that quantum mechanics suggests something similar regarding N particles requiring N dimensions to map. While this seems absurd, often we have found that physics end up being able to measure mathematic results, and ultimately determine their accuracy in the universe (or domain, Creation, etc., ultimately). This would mean that there is a functional limit to all (with nothing included as mapped), if empathy of this degree could somehow be mathematically represented. I believe The Bible has these limits set within it so that, as it is read and encoded by mankind over the indicated timeframe, this shape becomes mapped, and so that God, who alone is good, took the worst of the paths available at the point of Creation (and subsequently each juncture)- mercy, not sacrifice, for beginning a game that could not be not begun, and requiring all other perspective (at that time unaware) to be in it.
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