Would You Name Your Son Nothing?

Interesting conversation on perfection. One demands nothing less. The other says what for? For even if perfection is attained, IT WILL NOT LAST. This brings to mind the story of Cain and Abel. According to Bullinger's note in The Companion Bible (verses 4:1 and 2 [page 8]), Cain means acquisition, and Abel means transitoriness. No matter how perfect the acquisition, THE PERFECTION WILL NOT LAST. Where is all previous perfection? In the scrap heap. Forgotten, lost, buried, disintegrated, rotting. Abel actually means "nothing, zero, nada, zip, zilch." Kind of an odd name for a kid. It is actually the nature of time, isn't it? Everything is transitory! The next nanosecond after perfection is reached...it starts going away. Back to zero! Supposedly, the entire universe will eventually disperse, disband, cool to nothing, and disappear--cold, black nothing. Great golden images--perfection attained? Listen to Abel's cry: "IT WILL NOT LAST!" Dust to dust, nothing to nothing.

We are imagined, and are imagining. There is so much "perfection" to be attained. The physical that can be acquired...is NOTHING. The only thing worthy...is the Lamb. After the cooling, He will still be going strong. And so will we...if we be found in Him.