What is eternity?

[anotherlife]

Most religious texts say that afterlife is eternal and that heaven is eternal and that suffering in hell is eternal.

So what is eternity?

It seems that it is a consequence of a decision. The consequence of an act if will.

How can you be in eternity?

In physics, time is relative, the closer you travel to the speed of light, the slower it goes, and at the speed of light, time stops.

Jesus Christ is light. Is the stopping of time the eternity that all religious texts refer to?

When you die, your death is not a part of your life, because you don't survive it. Therefore, from the point of view of the dying person, there is no such a time when his life stops. The nurse can record a time of death, but from the point of view of the dying person, that time never arrives. Is this what the Bible calls eternity?

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Most religious texts say that afterlife is eternal and that heaven is eternal and that suffering in hell is eternal.

So what is eternity?

It seems that it is a consequence of a decision. The consequence of an act if will.

How can you be in eternity?

In physics, time is relative, the closer you travel to the speed of light, the slower it goes, and at the speed of light, time stops.

Jesus Christ is light. Is the stopping of time the eternity that all religious texts refer to?

When you die, your death is not a part of your life, because you don't survive it. Therefore, from the point of view of the dying person, there is no such a time when his life stops. The nurse can record a time of death, but from the point of view of the dying person, that time never arrives. Is this what the Bible calls eternity?

Nobodys going to heaven and the real hell is the Lake of Fire where the wicked will become "ashes under your feet"

So much paganism has crept into Catholic theology

 

[anotherlife]

Most religious texts say that afterlife is eternal and that heaven is eternal and that suffering in hell is eternal.

So what is eternity?

It seems that it is a consequence of a decision. The consequence of an act if will.

How can you be in eternity?

In physics, time is relative, the closer you travel to the speed of light, the slower it goes, and at the speed of light, time stops.

Jesus Christ is light. Is the stopping of time the eternity that all religious texts refer to?

When you die, your death is not a part of your life, because you don't survive it. Therefore, from the point of view of the dying person, there is no such a time when his life stops. The nurse can record a time of death, but from the point of view of the dying person, that time never arrives. Is this what the Bible calls eternity?

Nobodys going to heaven and the real hell is the Lake of Fire where the wicked will become "ashes under your feet"

So much paganism has crept into Catholic theology

The Catholic church correctly observes that anything in authority above you or anything that has enough time with you, can program any feeling or sense into your soul.
The real danger of he'll is the inability to unprogram them. The Eucharist and close relationship with Christ is trying to achieve the unprogramming.

 

[hjmick]

A weekend with my wife's brothers and sisters...

 

[onefour1]

Eternity is the endless duration of existence. It has no beginning and no end. I believe that matter and intelligence have an eternal existence. I believe that this earth life is a subset of eternity. Eventually this earth will become a celestial orb and all the intelligent spirits of the earth will resurrect and live eternally. This life is merely a phase of eternal existence. We say it has a beginning and end because we are born and we die. However, thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ, our immortal spirits that existed prior to coming to this earth will reunite with our bodies and we will live forever as resurrected beings.

Time, in my estimation, is a measure of a portion of eternity. One revolution of the earth around the sun is a year. One rotation of the earth on its axis is a day. We then break down our days into hours, minutes, and seconds according to an agreed upon ticking of the clock. Somewhere else in our universe one might use a different measure for a day. Perhaps one day to someone outside of our measure might measure a day according to a planet that rotates upon its axis much, much slower. Perhaps it would take that planet about 1000 of our years to rotate only once upon its axis. If that person were immortal, that day could seem perfectly normal to them.

Human perception and memory seem to play an interesting part in our concept of time. We tend to perceive change within our existence. And we also tend to remember past events and therefore look forward to future events. Thus we think of existence as having a series of events. Those events that have already occurred are said to be the past. Things that might be transpiring in the moment are said to be the present. Things that might come to pass as we continue in our existence are said to be in the future. I think we gain a concept of time by the passage of events and we use objects with constant movements to measure the passage of events. We then get a concept of being on a river of events and even a river of time. But it is all a subset of eternity. Time serves the important purpose of allowing all of us to coordinate our lives with each other. Without it, it would be hard to catch the bus, get to school on time, meet a friend for lunch, etc., etc., etc.

We often look at this earth life as a break from eternity. Thus the scriptures speak of God as a being who is from eternity to all eternity. This means that God was God before the earth break and will still be God after the earth break which will be for the rest of eternity. But the earth's existence is merely a subset of eternity and the earth's elements will continue to exist. They may undergo a change, but they will still exist.

 

[norwegen]

 

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[Anomalism]

How can you be in eternity?

Easy...

I'm doing it right now.

 

[The Irish Ram]

1 John 2:25
This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.

If you put a piece of cloth in the mouth of a dove and it flew back and forth wearing a mountain down to sea level, not one second of eternal time would have passed.
Why would God make the angels eternal, and not His own children? Why would he create children that only lasted less than a zeptosecond of eternal time? How could a father have a relationship with a child that is gone in the blink of an eye?
We are without end. And this is merely a short, linear, basic training camp, to prepare for the rest of your life.
We are made in His image. He is eternal. We are eternal.

 

[BS Filter]

Our spirit is eternal.

 

[anotherlife]

The problem with what is eternal is that eternity itself ensures that if something has a zero chance to happen once then it most surely happens.

This is because one or any other number divided by zero gives infinity. And this infinity is both positive and negative.

So looks like if we are spending eternity in heaven then pieces of us spend eternity in hell which we watch from heaven, according to the bible. And vice versa, if we are spending eternity in hell then pieces of us spend eternity in heaven that we watch from hell. Moreover, since there is zero chance of getting out of hell, eternity itself activates that zero chance to bring us back to earth by that division with zero in order to act as demons like for example the legions that Jesus Christ cast out into the pigs.