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To: hosepipe; ninenot; sittnick; steve50; Hegemony Cricket; Willie Green; Wolfie; ex-snook; FITZ; ...
Universe that always was should be possible.. and the Big Bang is a childish look at eternity..

One correction: the Eternity does not mean infinite time. It is something more. When God created the Heaven and Earth, He did it at the beginning of time itself. God created time.

Eternity is before the beginning of time, after the end of time and beyond time. This is what the original Greek term means "eis tous aionan ton aionon": "for the ages of ages" or "for the eons of eons".

God may create multiple universes with the their own times and spaces or with other way of arranging them, unimaginable to us, if it pleases Him.

127 posted on 10/25/2006 8:41:30 AM PDT by A. Pole (Psalm 19: "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.")
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To: A. Pole

Interesting distinction, but not simple. Does eternal life remain on this side of eternity?


128 posted on 10/25/2006 9:01:29 AM PDT by cornelis
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To: A. Pole; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; cornelis
Eternity does not mean infinite time. It is something more. When God created the Heaven and Earth, He did it at the beginning of time itself. God created time.... Eternity is before the beginning of time, after the end of time and beyond time.... God may create multiple universes with the their own times and spaces or with other way of arranging them, unimaginable to us, if it pleases Him.

Thank you for the clarification, A. Pole! Certainly if God wanted to create multiple universes "with the their own times and spaces or with other way of arranging them," my suspicion is that they would indeed be "unimaginable to us" for we are bound in our own spatiotemporal order. They could be "out there," but for us they would be unknowable -- at least, in this life.

FWIW. Thanks for the great essay/post!

140 posted on 10/25/2006 10:17:33 AM PDT by betty boop (Beautiful are the things we see...Much the most beautiful those we do not comprehend. -- N. Steensen)
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To: A. Pole
[ One correction: the Eternity does not mean infinite time. ]

Eternity makes time irrelevant but not timing..
Timing is composed of the moment and is creative..

157 posted on 10/25/2006 11:08:04 AM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole.)
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