why
attribute eternality to a divine being rather than a class of things that can be shown to exist?
If we
understand eternality correctly, then there are aspects of Jesus which are outside of time, and therefore, experience time not in a sequence, but in a constant «now.»
To love God, then, is to set the highest value on temporality as well as
on eternality, for in this view temporality is a dimension of all value.
Following the Stoics, he taught that virtue and vice are distinguishable through a natural law, that there is
an eternality to nature and a moral constitution to the universe, and that a «mixed government» might be advisable.
I would add however, that
the eternality and bliss of heaven seem juxtaposed to the eternality and suffering of where the lost go.
This eternality of God is difficult to grasp, but if you own a torch (flashlight) and switch it on, then the beam of light from it is also eternal (what a fitting analogy — God and Light!).
This demands
the eternality of something, either the physical universe, or its creator.
The question as to whether this whole conception necessarily implies
the eternality (in the sense of «everlastingness») of time and the world, is perhaps debatable.
When inspired by a rallying standard such as the name YHWH (meaning «
eternality») in ancient Israel, group consciousness inspires group cohesion and encourages efforts aimed at self - perpetuation (INNW 30).
It is to rejoice as fully in temporality as in
eternality.
There is yet a third fact to be placed by it,
eternality, I will call it, The mountain endures.
Colours represent Jef Verheyen's interpretation of the world and the ways in which we perceive nature and
eternality.