Eternity

[Daily verse and quote]

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.

People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive,

disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,

treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--

having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.”

2 Timothy 3:1-5

 

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead.

It is going on all the time.

We are in it now.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Naturally, God Speaks

[JohnD]

The spirit realm is more puzzling to me the older I get.

A cross between assuming I could imagine how it would

be like and not being concerned about it until death comes

(a million years from now as a youth... or that's how we think...).

It may just be anthropomorphic language that the Bible uses to

describe the afterlife. Monkey words for monkey brains.

Not that I believe evolution, but monkey brained humans fits.

We are products of our environment (finite beings trying not only to

imagine the infinite, but that which exists without beginning or end). 

I still can't even imagine nothingness.  We live in a universe full of stuff.

Even the invisible air is something though it appears to be nothing.

And from nothingness the eternal God (who was all that existed) created

heaven and earth. One of the descriptions of Jesus (Isaiah 9:6) is

"everlasting Father" or  "Father of Eternity."

My way of grasping eternity mentally is to think of a progression of the now

without the trappings or benchmarks of what we call time. In this life there are

benchmarks of changes all around which we measure by increments of  time

(i.e. beginning, middle, end).  Eternity is simply now. Always has been, always will be.

That sense of now is reflected in our environ of time.  

I feel like we are fish in a small bowl trying to contemplate the universe outside when it comes

to eternity.

 

 

 

[missmuffet]

Eternal life forever and ever never ending. That is mind boggling for the human to think about. 

[bropro]

10 hours ago, Daily verse and quote said:

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.

People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive,

disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,

treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--

having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.”

2 Timothy 3:1-5

 

This scripture reference defines exactly what is going on in our nation and around the world. Jesus is coming!

Gary