That's a near
eternity between hardware releases in the Android world.
That's a near
eternity between hardware releases in the Android world.
Still, he cautioned, «We're dealing with a big hypothetical because it's
an eternity between now and then.»
It is a time of year (if you are a stay - at - home mom like me) when you find yourself dumbfounded on how to pass the intervening
eternity between 4 pm and dinner time and end up reading lots and lots and lots and lots of children's books.
Not exact matches
The one exceptional difference
between them all is that the Bible clearly explains that the only way to escape
eternity in literal hell fire that goes on forever and ever, is to accept the free gift of salvation that is only found in Jesus Christ the creator of all that you can see and can not see.
The microgeny is a moment of time suspended
between the limits of timelessness, like the experience of living, which is the dream of life that hovers on the
eternity of sleep.
The theology of this type of faith makes strict distinctions
between body and soul, history and
eternity, politics and religion, this world and the next.
The anointed one still walks the road that leads from Nazareth toward the borderline
between time and
eternity, working among the poor, the oppressed, the mourners, the murderers and the murdered in the only body he has right now, the one Paul calls the body of Christ.
Is a form of faith possible that will effect a dialectical union
between time and
eternity, or the sacred and the profane?
The imminence of death has a way of making things clear — the uncertainties of life, the importance of love, the startling discontinuities and continuities
between this life and
eternity.
What I love about Luther, besides his rather curmudgeonly and down to earth personality, is his emphasis on forgiveness rather than perfection in life
between now and our complete restoration in the fullness of
Eternity.
To those impatient political enthusiasts who talk loudly on how futile and impractical religion must always be, and who are bent on legislating human equality into existence, Kierkegaard offers a word of counsel, «Only that which is religious can with the assistance of
eternity press the equality of men through to its ultimate conclusions: the reverent, genuine, unworldly, true, the only possible equality
between men.
The discrepancy
between the orthodox teaching of an
eternity of punishment for those predestined to damnation and the belief in God's love is one of the too rarely examined problems in traditional Christian doctrine.
Once, the Church could know Christ as the cosmic Lord, as the Mediator
between time and
Eternity, as both fully man and fully God.
The traditional answer to the relation
between time and
eternity is that time is in God but not univocally as in creatures.
Even so, Schleiermacher surrendered very little, and his own consciousness's appropriation of God's being, «in relation to us» of course, included and emphasized the traditional attributes of omnipotence,
eternity, omnipresence, and omniscience.5 And for him, «immutability» is already contained within the notion of God's
eternity.6 Causality within the entire system of nature can be exhaustively accounted for by God's causal activity.7 Following the lead of Aquinas, Schleiermacher declared that there is no distinction
between potential and actual in God.8
Classical Christian theology knew a tension
between time and
Eternity, a tension created by the chasm
between the creation and the Creator.
When the Creator disappears from the boundary of finitude, and
Eternity is swallowed up by time, then theology must lose its ground in a dialectical tension
between the here and the Beyond.
It would seem that there is no essential similarity at all
between time and
eternity since there is a chasm
between God and creation.
It was Plato who taught us to contrast time and
eternity, although such an antithesis is alien to biblical thought.21 The result is that our spirituality has been infected with the Greek dichotomy
between time and
eternity.
Rather than see eternal life as a continuum begun in our baptisms and extended through life into
eternity, we were tempted to posit instead a radical discontinuity
between «time's wild wintry blast» and our destiny in time to come.
In the judgment of
eternity the relation
between the end and the means is rather the reverse of this.
Instead, it is confidently asserted that there is a similarity
between time and
eternity by virtue of the analogy of being.
Every funeral reminds us of just how thin the veil is,
between this world and the next,
between time and
eternity,
between the opportunity for conversion and the moment of judgment.
For Greek thinking in its Platonic formulation there exists
between time and
eternity a qualitative difference, which is not completely expressed by speaking of a distinction
between limited and unlimited duration of time.
«There is no comparison
between jailing a human for the rest of their natural lifespan for committing a horrible crime and torturing someone for all of
eternity simply because they fail to believe in a god...» ----------- Actually, it's a great ana.logy.
be absolved for
eternity, gain free passage
between heaven and earth for
eternity!
There is no comparison
between jailing a human for the rest of their natural lifespan for committing a horrible crime and torturing someone for all of
eternity simply because they fail to believe in a god for which there is no proof of.
Or, seen from the opposite perspective, creation (and with it all of human history) is a partial expression of the exchange of love
between the three divine persons from all
eternity.
So now we are all supposedly waiting for a battle
between this god and the talking snake, bad stuff happens, you die, she dies everybody dies and those that believed in the god live for
eternity in a lobotomy - like bliss.
A pagan or religious «recollection» must, it is true, dissolve the opposition
between the sacred and the profane, but recollection can not move forward to
eternity.
The spiritual challenge of our time is to realize our sacred humanness, that there need not be a conflict
between the natural and the supernatural,
between the finite and the infinite,
between time and
eternity,
between practicality and mysticism,
between social justice and contemplation,
between sexuality and spirituality,
between our human fulfillment and our spiritual realization,
between what is most human and what is most sacred.
One would have expected the question of the relationship
between eternity and temporality to have appeared on her agenda.
Kierkegaard's doctrine was attractive to Niebuhr because it took into account man's dialectical position
between time and
eternity, man's transcendence and finitude, and man's «image of God» and his corruption.
Eternity, on the other hand, can admirably distinguish
between them; yet it is obvious that the thing does not become easier on that account.
When these symbols are taken literally they confuse the mind of the church, distort the relation
between time and
eternity, and reduce God's ultimate vindication over history to a point in history; for Niebuhr, one such falsification is expressed in the hope of a millennial age.
How does it happen that the reflexivity of the actual entity does not immediately operate against its becoming, precisely as, in the relation of things to their properties or of substances and their interactions, it seems to cause every sort of coming - to - be and perishing to evaporate into the indeterminate
eternity of timeless relationships
between phases?
Thus in a qualified sense this reciprocity
between a thing and its attributes transfers the thing and its attributes from time and from pure becoming into a universal timelessness, a qualified
eternity.
The pastor lives
between two worlds,
eternity and time, body and spirit, in but not of the world.
The true contrast
between God and the world is not that
between timeless
eternity and the temporality of the creatures.
She counseled patience and perspective in dealing with life's trials: «We must often draw the comparison
between time and
eternity.
This makes the situation a «degenerate third» because the opposition or «secondness»
between eternity and becoming is reduced to mere qualitative difference — ever - presence versus sometimes - presence.
For his part, Hartshorne's interpretation of God so qualifies his meaning of creativity that the contrast
between becoming and
eternity within the cosmological process is softened, reduced in fact to what Peirce would call a «degenerate third.
Here, in fact, we may be in the presence of one of the most necessary of all Devils: the Ecumenical Unifier, champion of all efforts to remove invidious distinctions
between nature and nurture, body and spirit, interdiction and impulse, time and
eternity, individual and community, male and female, Hell and Heaven — and ultimately, of course,
between man and God.
Here God drilled through the partition
between eternity and earthly time to admit the highest voltage wire of his love.
One distinction that I make, and Martin does not see the importance of, is
between eternity and everlastingness, or immortality.
Or, phrased differently, being was experienced as the passage of all things from future possibility into the nothingness of the past through the narrow juncture of the always disappearing present; and so the thought of being had not yet been separated into a stark opposition
between temporality and
eternity.
You said, «LinCA... You will suffer in hellfire your b!tch» If given the choice
between spending an
eternity in hell, or a day in heaven with that monster you call your god and his followers, I'll choose hell any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
He goes on to say that the duality here is not the old duality
between time and
eternity, man and God, but «the duality of the ordinary seen as ordinary and the ordinary seen as extraordinary.»
In the 1950s, there was an extended discussion
between Dr. Donald Barnhouse, editor of the conservative evangelical
Eternity magazine, Walter Martin, author of Kingdom of the Cults, and leaders in the General Conference of Seventh - day Adventists.