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Re:Does the Past Still Exist? by NateEag on Sunday July 24, 2022 @09:52AM (#32213513)
As one who has read the Protestant Bible all the way through probably more than five times, I don't recall any statement that memories will be wiped.

At the end of Revelation there is a declaration that ~"there will be no more crying, or tears, or death, or pain, for the former things have passed away," and some interpret that to mean humans will not remember anything from life in the old universe.

It's an interpretation, though, not something the text outright says.

During my life as a Biblical literalist, I saw it as simply saying that a world with hardship and suffering was no more, and that our memories of those times would be recontextualized.

Re:Does the Past Still Exist? by thunkle on Sunday July 24, 2022 @12:53PM (#32215256)
Perhaps Isaiah 65:17 "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind."
Re:Does the Past Still Exist? by NateEag on Sunday July 24, 2022 @10:15PM (#32219895)
Ah, that certainly could fit the bill.

Thanks.