Eternity – Understanding Eternity from God's perspective
Eternity – Understanding Eternity from God's perspective
http://www.revelationtv.com In this video Dr Richard Kent describes facts about eternity and the afterlife. Is Eternity something that we need to be afraid of or something that in Christ we can look forward to? Watch to find out.
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CAN YOU TELL ME , WHAY IS ETERNITY IN ONE WORD ?
Ephesians 1:4
Even as he chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love.
Psalm 5:4
For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, Nor shall evil dwell with You.
The fact you came across this and commented on this shows God wants you to know you were chosen by Him.
I study the Bible a lot and write lots of notes. I was writing down my thoughts on eternity and I defined it as time without end but I decided to check a Revell Bible dictionary and it defined it as “eternity is that which is outside of and not limited by time. It has no beginning and no end.” I think about it a lot but obviously never experienced it and how do you write about something you’ve never experienced? We are in time and know nothing but time. We have a birthday, we have clocks and calendars and even yesterday and tomorrow are references to time. I think of eternity, for me, as a constant now. I imagine a clock that never changes. My problem is if we do something then do something else there has to be a before and after even if there is no yesterday or today, which are references to time. I was talking to a guy on YouTube recently who was not a Christian and said he was ok with going to hell. I said you haven’t thought very much about hell or eternity to say something like that. You’re not in hell 30 days then get out. It’s not like a prison. We’ve all been burned and we all know the intense pain involved. I imagine having my hand placed on a hot stove and me not able to remove but the nerves are never damaged and the hand is not destroyed. Imagine being in a burning liquid up to the neck. That’s what a lake of fire makes me think of. Now whether the lake of fire is literal or maybe worse, I don’t know but in my mind it means intense pain forever. As a Christian I won’t endure that but the lost will. They think hell is a place where they will be with their friends. It’s not a jail cell. It’s a place of punishment for rejecting Jesus and it never ends. There won’t be anything but screaming. There’s some debate over is hell literal or is it so bad we can’t imagine so a lake of fire is just a way of describing something we can’t fathom in a way we can relate to. Me personally, I think it’s a real lake of fire. Studying fire recently, I call it the big 3, but when fire is mentioned in the first 5 books of Gods word it has to do with Gods presence, like the burning bush or mount Sinai or the tabernacle, Gods wrath or sacrifices. Our God is a consuming fire and in psalms David said if I ascend into heaven you are there. If I descend into hell, you are there. A lake of fire would be enduring Gods wrath in His presence but not a benevolent presence. Maybe I’m right maybe I’m wrong but like I said, I’m thinking about something I have not experienced. There is a heaven and a hell and they are forever
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The thought of eternity still scares the heck out of me both ways either not existing forever or living forever like either way there’s no end where trapped it scares the heck out of me
With this being the case, how is it that God is long suffering?
God already know what time it is
Paganism mixed with Calvinist heresy. Eleven dimensions? Lol….
The only problem with that is the book of Romans when God says he chose Jacob, even before he was born, so that his actions does not matter in God’s choosing…
God is omnipotent, He is both within and without, inside and outside our dimensions, that ‘box’. It is foolish to think of Him as only outside our grasp when He’s very much in it yet beyond it.
man has a "free" will in the sense that we have a faculty of choosing that remains after the Fall. Every person has the ability to choose what they want. We choose freely every day.
The Bible says that we are dead in trespasses and sin. We choose according to the desires of our heart that are only evil continually. The Fall of man was radical. The Will of man is not indifferent. It has a bias, an inclination, a bent towards sin. Everyone has the free will to make a decision for God, however it is God who changes our heart, regenerates us, makes us born again, so that we will choose Him. The unregenerated man has a sin nature that makes choices, and those choices are aligned with their nature.
Before the Fall we had a free will and we also had liberty (the power to do the right in things of God). After the Fall, we retained the free will (the faculty of choosing), what we lost was our liberty. And only the Holy Spirit can restore the liberty that we lost at the Fall. The Bible teaches that we are fallen creatures who still choose and make decisions, but we make them in the context of our prison of sin. And the only way we can get out of that prison is if God sets us free.
It’s predestination by way of free will..
18:110) Say, “I am only a man like you, to whom has been revealed that your god is one God. So whoever would hope for the meeting with his Lord – let him do righteous work and not associate in the worship of his Lord anyone.”
But what is the experience like for those that go into the lake of fire? Were they predestined for it? Or did their free will supersede God’s? And do they experience it in a timely way?
Makes absolutely no sense.
Thanks, now I’m even more confused…lol
213) Mankind was [of] one religion [before their deviation]; then Allah sent the prophets as bringers of good tidings and warners and sent down with them the Scripture in truth to judge between the people concerning that in which they differed. And none differed over the Scripture except those who were given it – after the clear proofs came to them – out of jealous animosity among themselves. And Allah guided those who believed to the truth concerning that over which they had differed, by His permission. And Allah guides whom He wills to a straight path.
Rev 8:1 and when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
One might consider this to be in direct conflict to your teaching of God existing outside of time. Because of this and other conflicts I believe there are actually 4 heavens. The Fourth heaven would be God’s place completely outside of time where no one exists that has not gone through the process of obtaining a glorified body. (No man can see God’s face and live, except perhaps with a glorified spiritual body.)
I died for a period of 15 to 20 minutes. I had a vivid vision of leaving the Earth flying through space watching it all flash by. Then I woke up in ER and realized I could not remember a bad event of my entire life. Just in that short time God was already cleaning me up to be ready for his presence. I guess I wasn’t quite ready yet…
Incredible. Fascinating.
I was informed by a divine source that an eternity is 220 trillion years, and that is a fact..if you’re thinking that doesn’t sound like a long time, well consider 220 trillion "minutes" is equal to 418,000,000 years…
Another fun fact to consider on eternity…before creating the angels, did God ever speak? I don’t think so, which means that from eternity ago until the creation of the world, God meditated on the dynamics of the what, when, why, how and where…imagine the profundity of it…
God knows the future because He decreed it.
God bless you for this message.
Isaiah 55:8-9
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Unfortunately, Psa 41:13 appears to be somewhat ambiguous or equivocal about ‘eternity’ given the underlying word, which may be more literally rendered "from age to age", which doesn’t make an infinite past or beginningless very clear. So, such the notion of God’s beginningless may actually rest more on the extra-biblical cosmological arguments & notions of infinite regression.
Do we linguistic consensus on עוֹלָם (o.lam); which often conveys a long duration, but not quite clearly the notion of beginningless, yes?