. . and the Christian in light of Eternity.
Let us assume a worst case scenario. John Christian lived 100 years suffering severely
every year he lived. He even hurt as a new born, was still hurting when he entered
Kindergarten, and he hurt all the way through High School and never stopped hurting
until the day he died.
John Christian spent his entire life in severe pain and all his money on doctors trying
to get rid of the pain. He never succeeded. When he turned 75 he quit trying and
decided to "just live with it" on out to the end and he did exactly that and died
at age 100, in severe pain, but trusting the Lord Jesus as his Savior. [Note: I don't
think the Lord has ever allowed such as this to occur for one of His children, but
I need a "worst case scenario" here in order to make my point.]
John Christian, after living 100 years in severe pain dies and goes to Heaven to
be with the Lord for all Eternity.
What is the percent ratio of 100 years to Eternity?
After John Christian had been in Heaven for 200 years,
you'd have this fraction:100 divided by 200 = 0.5
After John Christian had been in Heaven for 500 years,
you'd have this fraction:100 divided by 500 = 0.2
After 10,000 years, you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 10,000 = 0.01
After 100,000 years, you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 100,000 = 0.001
After 1,000,000 years in Heaven you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 1,000,000 = 0.0001
After 10,000,000 years, you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 10,000,000 = 0.00001
After 50,000,000 years, you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 50,000,000 = 0.000002
After John Christian had been in Heaven for 100,000,000
years, you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 100,000,000 = 0.000001
After 500,000,000 years, you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 500,000,000 = 0.0000002
Question: How many zeros would you have after John
Christian had been in Heaven for 999 trillion years?
Moreover, as Eternity rolled on, there would never come a time when
you would not be adding more zeros?
At some point the 100 years of severe suffering experienced by John
Christian in this life would become, in his mind and in his total
experience, a fraction so small as to be, for all practical purposes, totally
and absolutely non-existent.
And again, as Eternity rolls on, the zeros would never cease to be
added to the 0.
At some point in Eternity, you have 999 trillion to the power of
999 trillion . . zeros.
And once you reached this point, you would not even have
"got started good" in adding zeros to the 0.0
God's Mercy and Grace: The mere passing of time in Eternity, will one day,
for all practical purposes, reduce our earthly suffering, with regard to our
total experience, in percent ratio, to a fraction so small that it will be,
de facto, non-existent.
Of course, all this is assuming that we have the "passing of years",
in Eternity. Eternity may have a totally different concept of Time
than we now experience so that we will not have to wait, say,
999 trillion "years" for our earthly suffering to, de facto, vanish
into oblivion. That might happen the moment we enter Eternity.
But either way all our human suffering, will, in Eternity, vanish into
percent-ratio-oblivion, and for all practical purposes, cease to exist.
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Let us assume a worst case scenario. John Christian lived 100 years suffering severely
every year he lived. He even hurt as a new born, was still hurting when he entered
Kindergarten, and he hurt all the way through High School and never stopped hurting
until the day he died.
John Christian spent his entire life in severe pain and all his money on doctors trying
to get rid of the pain. He never succeeded. When he turned 75 he quit trying and
decided to "just live with it" on out to the end and he did exactly that and died
at age 100, in severe pain, but trusting the Lord Jesus as his Savior. [Note: I don't
think the Lord has ever allowed such as this to occur for one of His children, but
I need a "worst case scenario" here in order to make my point.]
John Christian, after living 100 years in severe pain dies and goes to Heaven to
be with the Lord for all Eternity.
What is the percent ratio of 100 years to Eternity?
After John Christian had been in Heaven for 200 years,
you'd have this fraction:100 divided by 200 = 0.5
After John Christian had been in Heaven for 500 years,
you'd have this fraction:100 divided by 500 = 0.2
After 10,000 years, you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 10,000 = 0.01
After 100,000 years, you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 100,000 = 0.001
After 1,000,000 years in Heaven you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 1,000,000 = 0.0001
After 10,000,000 years, you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 10,000,000 = 0.00001
After 50,000,000 years, you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 50,000,000 = 0.000002
After John Christian had been in Heaven for 100,000,000
years, you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 100,000,000 = 0.000001
After 500,000,000 years, you'd have this fraction:
100 divided by 500,000,000 = 0.0000002
Question: How many zeros would you have after John
Christian had been in Heaven for 999 trillion years?
Moreover, as Eternity rolled on, there would never come a time when
you would not be adding more zeros?
At some point the 100 years of severe suffering experienced by John
Christian in this life would become, in his mind and in his total
experience, a fraction so small as to be, for all practical purposes, totally
and absolutely non-existent.
And again, as Eternity rolls on, the zeros would never cease to be
added to the 0.
At some point in Eternity, you have 999 trillion to the power of
999 trillion . . zeros.
And once you reached this point, you would not even have
"got started good" in adding zeros to the 0.0
God's Mercy and Grace: The mere passing of time in Eternity, will one day,
for all practical purposes, reduce our earthly suffering, with regard to our
total experience, in percent ratio, to a fraction so small that it will be,
de facto, non-existent.
Of course, all this is assuming that we have the "passing of years",
in Eternity. Eternity may have a totally different concept of Time
than we now experience so that we will not have to wait, say,
999 trillion "years" for our earthly suffering to, de facto, vanish
into oblivion. That might happen the moment we enter Eternity.
But either way all our human suffering, will, in Eternity, vanish into
percent-ratio-oblivion, and for all practical purposes, cease to exist.
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