The comforting delusion that time is linear and sequential. A fond and impossibledream for anyone living in a simultemporal state.
Feeling the weight of past, present and future always upon him, he yearned to experience time as most others described their experience, moment by moment, one day at a time.
One Verse Charlie is a person who takes one verse or small portion of scripture and builds his/her entire theology around it. Not properly exegeting or taking into account the surrounding text, history, politics, geography, etc...
John Doe believes that Jesus came not to bring peace but a sword, forgetting that Jesus said love thy neighbor. He is such a one verse Charlie.