Tao Bible - Genesis 6:13

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
~ King James version ~

Through yin and yang existence is a perpetual cycle.
~ possible Taoist alternative ~

Here we find one of the many instances in which the conception of time differs between these two diverse perspectives. In the Judeo-Christian mind, time is demarcated by definitive beginnings and endings, starting points and finish lines. What has once been created can be destroyed.

From the standpoint of philosophical Taoism, time merely is a human construct used to denote the phases of a never-ending cycle. Every perceived end point flows into another perceived start point and vice versa. It's like trying to decide precisely where a river flowing into the sea ceases to be a river or where the ocean meeting a river ceases to be the ocean.

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