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A HISTORICAL LIE: THE STONE AGE

our future or give this information to our memories. The future is
not in our memories, but all human pasts and futures are in His eter-
nal memory. This is like observing a human life as if it were already
wholly depicted and completed in a movie. Someone who cannot
advance the film sees his life as the frames pass, one by one. He is
mistaken in thinking that the frames he has not yet seen constitute
the future.

World History Is Also a Relative Concept
All these facts apply to history and social life as well. We think
of societies and world history as limited within the concepts of time
and space. We divide history into periods and look at it in terms of
this relative concept of ours.
We rely on our five senses to survive. We perceive only what
our senses allow, and we can never succeed in stepping out of the
boundaries of our senses. The time and space we live in are similarly
perceived. If our brain cannot detect a being through our five senses,
we simply say that that being has "disappeared." Accordingly,
events, images or sensations stored in our memories still exist for
us—that is, they are alive, while those that are forgotten no longer
exist. To put it another way, beings and events that are not in our
memory become past events for us. They are simply "dead" and non-
existent.
Yet, this holds true only for human beings, because only human
beings have a limited memory. The memory of God, on the other
hand, is superior to everything. It is boundless and eternal, yet one
point deserves mention here: The term "the memory of God" is used
only for clarification purposes. It is definitely not possible that any
comparison or similarity could be drawn between the memory of
God and the memory of a human. God is surely the One Who creates

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