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Hello Steaver,

I have never had any problem with God being eternal. I will watch the thread with interest.

Sheila

 

I don't see it as something I have to do, prove God's exsistance(I know you didn't ask for this one) or prove He is eternal. He tells us Himself in scripture. All our answers are there if we look. Rarely will you find one verse thats a cure all for your questions. It's the whole thing, taken in context that produces a doctrine.
But it's good, to not only beleive it becasue it's what you were taught, every chucrh you've evr been in teaches it, your parents believed it, but each of need to know we beleive it becasue the bible says it, and where and how.

 

I think he was testing to see if anyone beleived it becasue the bible teaches it and where and how the bible teaches it.

 

Greetings,

I tried to show from the prologue of John that the Word existed before Creation. This would also include the creation of time. The response I received suggested that this did not preclude God ending at some time in the future.

However, If anything existed BEFORE time was created, then there is no future for them. All Creation and time would be on a single point, not on a time line like we see time. There is no past present and future outside of time. Eternity is NOT just 'a long time' rather it is outside of time.

If you look at modern physics: time can slow down, speed up, and even stop. There is possibilities of NO time. Interesting to think about at least.

peace

 

AMEN!
If an eternal/everlasting God gives eternal/everlasting life then we are saved for eternity, or if not then that same God can not be eternal/everlasting becaue the biblical word no longer means the same. If you change the means for eternal life and it can cease, then you must also change the meaning of the same word for the eternal God, who can equally cease to exsist.
Good post

 

Greetings,

You said: There is probably not one Christian who has read this thread and thought; "what a silly question", or "that's a no-brainer".

REsponse: You are probably correct with the readers of this board, but not necessarily in the world of theology. There is a theological understanding called: Process Theology. It was begun by Alfred North Whitehead. In this God is 'within' time. He is just one of the many beings within history and time, he just happens to be the greatest being. This was real popular in the 1980s.

peace

 

In witnessing to people who tend to be atheistic or agnostic, it might be good to start with Genesis 1:1,
"In the beginning God..."
The Bible does't set out to prove the existence or eternality of God, it assumes it. We accept it by faith. If one cannot get past the first verse of the Bible, it often is of no use going any further.
DHK