wave and particle

It is very aggravating to me that within the Christian community, Post-Modern culture has been defined as a belief system but not in opposition to or compared to Modern culture as a belief system. It appears to me that the only difference in this area between these cultural paradigms is that the post-modern acknowledges what the modern doesn’t believe. That’s it. I can’t see much difference other than thinking and doing.
Okay, granted, that’s a big difference because everything in my life revolves around how I think and what I do. I can believe the same thing as you, and certainly believing or not, the same things are true or untrue for both of us, but we will always butt heads on the thinking and doing part. So it’s true for both of us, but we respond to that truth differently in how we process it and how it affects our doing based on our perspective.
The modern mind has proven both absolutes and relativism concerning precisely the same subject.
Light would probably be a great metaphor for absolute truth in the post-modern mind, because we can prove modern philosophy and post-modern philosophy with a single subject. Both wave and particle. Observe it as a wave, it is a particle, observe it as a particle, it is a wave. It changes depending on how you look at it.
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. That’s true. But what that means is relative to how it is observed. If you, on your motorcycle, chase a light beam at 185,000 miles per second, and I watched you from the side of the road, I would see the light beam moving away from you at 1000 miles per second. But you, from your motorcycle would see the light beam moving away from you at 186,000 miles per second. The truth is that light travels at 186,000 miles per second, but what that means to me on the side of the road is quite different than what it means to you on your motorcycle. That is, how it affects what you are thinking and what you are doing.
I might be cheering you on, “go go go you can catch it, it is only going 1000 mps faster than you.” But you are apt to give up and quit, seeing it going 186,000 mps faster than you. You would probably think I was lying to you about how much faster the light was moving. No, you would know I was lying to you, because you can see it for yourself.

Yes, the gospel of Jesus is truth. The details are invariable, like the speed of light. But what it is about is a relationship. My relationship with Jesus probably looks a bit different than yours. That doesn’t mean that what I believe about him is different than you. Especially not the means to the relationship. But the relationship certainly plays itself out differently. If you have ever had a relationship with another human being, it is obvious that any book you read about relationships is going to be mostly wrong when applied to yours. I could write a book right now explaining all the reasons why. The modern mind writes a book that is assumed to apply to all. Men are from Mars and women… But the truth is, some men are from Neptune and others from Mercury. Some women are from Saturn. There are only about three venusian qualities that all women share. These are all anatomical, and have nothing to do with relating to them on any level other than the physical, and even the physical is dependent upon perception from the deeper levels. Everything else is a mystery. A wonderful, beautiful, worthy mystery that must be approached as unique and responded to spontaneously on a level much deeper than the facts about people and Robert’s Rules of Order.
Of course it is much easier to codify and define the invariables, the things that despite the differences of perception, remain true. But the speed of light doesn’t define light. Its particle nature doesn’t define its opposite, wave nature, nor vice versa. The paradox is a mystery. My soteriology doesn’t define my relationship with God, though my soteriology can be defined. My relationship and how the events caused it to be accomplished is the paradox, the mystery. I can believe and understand the particle aspects (the physical events that took place to make it possible), but I can never explain to you the wave aspects (the living, breathing, interactive nature) of my relationship or what the physical events accomplished to allow it. You wouldn’t understand it, as I wouldn’t understand yours. Sure, God is eternal, infinite and unchanging, but I am not. And I am not like you, so God interacts with me a bit differently. If it is not possible for an unchanging God to interact differently with different people why did he not make us all the same? When Peter questioned Jesus about the rumors that John would live forever, Jesus practically answered, "what's it to you how I interact with him?" To say that his unchanging nature requires that he interacts with all the same, is to define him and make him finite.