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Stranger Things or Incorruptible things?

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For you know that it was not with incorruptible perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors. ( 1 Peter 1:18 ) Not all the wealth of the world can redeem a single soul, for gold and silver are merely corruptible elements in a world under “the bondage of corruption” ( Romans 8:21 ). Everything in the physical creation is decaying and dying . In fact, one day all these “elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up” ( 2 Peter 3:10 ). Even the very seeds that transmit life are “corruptible seed” ( 1 Peter 1:23 ), and all mankind is “corruptible man” ( Romans 1:23 ). Modern science recognizes this universal principle of decay as one of its most basic laws—the law of increasing entropy. Even in this corruptible world, however, some things are incorruptible. There is the “incorruptible . . . word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” ( 1 Pe