Fresh Wisdom: Breakthrough To Enlightenment — A Handbook Of Ancient Wisdom For Modern Living With Alternative Life Strategies.
» CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION! «
Custom Search

Eternity

Eternity, as a concept, simply means the absence of limits on time. It is unspecific regarding direction, but limitless. Often people tend to focus on the forward aspect of eternity and ignore the purer concept and its implications. Essentially, the acceptance of eternity removes all boundaries and limits from all aspects of time. In a true eternity, forward, backward, up, down, fast, slow, flowing, stagnant, etc., would cease to be concerns and simply be relative to definition, if at all.


Recover From The Grief Of Pet Loss: How To Emotionally Cope With The Death Or Loss Of A Pet. Facing the Grief And The Steps To Recovery...


Back To Life! A Personal Grief Guidebook. Heartbroken From GRIEF? Back To Life Provides Just The Answers You Are Looking For!




The concept of eternity developed nearly parallel to the development of the concept of God in that, the imagining of a god, was naturally accompanied by the pondering of its environment. Therefore, time, one of the great restrictions on human life and our physical world, became a nearly mandatory consideration in every discussion. Eternity, when considered in the context of the notion of divine perfection and a Creator-creature distinction, became both logical and explanatory.

Eternity is often discussed from the aspects of timelessness and everlastingness, but this is due, in large part, to our human limitations. Timelessness and everlastingness, as related to the concept of eternity, are much like adverbs and adjectives, they share a relationship to language, but define completely different aspects. Timelessness applies to the non-physical or non-tangible aspect of eternity and would be a more suitable term in reference to the existence of a god. Timelessness also, by definition, would encompass the concept of everlasting. Everlastingness on the other hand, by implication, infers a beginning to something's existence and would therefore seem more fitting in application to the physical, tangible aspects of our world. Everlasting would not encompass the concept of timelessness.

Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD), wrote that time exists only within the created universe, so therefore God would exist outside of time; St. Augustine believed that for God there is no past or future, but only an eternal present. In this scenario, only God would be timeless. God's creations, at his will, could be everlasting.

While the concept of a god is often used in tandem with the concept of eternity, god is not necessary in the discussion. Mathematics and physics are just two examples of scientific disciplines capable of fostering and considering a concept of eternity.