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JesusEstelle
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After we die and enter eternity…will it ever end…,-?Like if u enter heaven will it come to an end…?or it it foreverrrr with no end…someone said eternity is 4 million years…then after that what will happen?
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Catholic1954
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Eternity is forever, there is no end, not even after 4 million years.
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Convert1
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:yup: That pretty much sums it up.
meltzerboy
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Eternity means without time. I assume we will not experience the passage of time so, in that sense, it is forever.
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chris62
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Have you got a photo of the imbecile who said eternity lasts 4 million years.
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Like, please!
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Lucretius
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Both Catholic1954 and Metzerboy are, in a sense, correct. I think one of the essential things one must understand regarding the New Heavens and New Earth is that they seems to operate on an entirely different metaphysics. Because we understand metaphysics based on our experiences with this world’s operation, the way the Next World works is literally unimaginable, for the most part. Christians (and Jews, IIRC), believe this regarding the World to Come. Imagine that
I usually conceive eternity though as one moment (outside of time) that is also eons (in time). It is a moment that feels like thousands of years. Have you ever had an experience where you thought that you could do for all time what you were doing just then, that each second seemed to be gloriously and joyfully forever? Have you ever felt old and wise while being young and innocent? I don’t really know how to really describe these experiences to someone who hasn’t experienced them. These visions, in my opinion, are tastes to what Heaven is like.
Some people describe boredom as a second feeling like forever. Maybe that’s what Hell is like?
If you are interested in these topics, I would look to the Mystical Doctors of the Church, as what eternity is like seems to be more of a mystical understanding than a philosophical one (not that the mystic and the rational are opposed).
Christi pax,
Lucretius
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