2006-09-01 03:43:59 · 14 answers · asked by MR Sir 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Everlasting:
1. lasting forever; eternal: everlasting future life.
2. lasting or continuing for an indefinitely long time.
Eternal:
1. without beginning or end; lasting forever; always existing (opposed to temporal): eternal life.
2. perpetual; ceaseless; endless: eternal quarreling; eternal chatter.
3. enduring; immutable: eternal principles.
4. Metaphysics. existing outside all relations of time; not subject to change.
2006-09-01 03:46:55 · answer #1 · answered by Samantha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If by everlasting life you just mean living forever, then difference is that eternal life is living forever in the presence of God.
2006-09-01 03:47:49 · answer #2 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think everlasting life is more in reference to living forever in your fleshly body. Perhaps if there really was water that your could drink & live forever. I believe eternal life is more after you die - your eternal life in Heaven or Hell. This is my understanding of it.
2006-09-01 03:47:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wishing that this short quotation from the Writings of Abdul-Baha sheds some light in your quest:
"Is it not astonishing that although man has been created for the knowledge and love of God, for the virtues of the human world, for spirituality, heavenly illumination and life eternal, nevertheless he continues ignorant and negligent of all this? Consider how he seeks knowledge of everything except knowledge of God. For instance, his utmost desire is to penetrate the mysteries of the lowest strata of the earth. Day by day he strives to know what can be found ten metres below the surface, what he can discover within the stone, what he can learn by archaeological research in the dust. He puts forth arduous labors to fathom terrestrial mysteries but is not at all concerned about knowing the mysteries of the Kingdom, traversing the illimitable fields of the eternal world, becoming informed of the divine realities, discovering the secrets of God, attaining the knowledge of God, witnessing the splendors of the Sun of Truth and realizing the glories of everlasting life. He is unmindful and thoughtless of these. How much he is attracted to the mysteries of matter and how completely unaware he is of the mysteries of divinity! Nay, he is utterly negligent and oblivious of the secrets of divinity. How great his ignorance! How conducive to his degradation! It is as if a kind and loving father had provided a library of wonderful books for his son in order that he might be informed of the mysteries of creation; at the same time surrounding him with every means of comfort and enjoyment; but the son amuses himself with pebbles and playthings, neglectful of all his father's gifts and provision. How ignorant and heedless is man! The Father has willed for him glory eternal and he is content with blindness and deprivation. The Father has built for him a royal palace but he is playing with the dust; prepared for him garments of silk but he prefers to remain unclothed; provided for him delicious foods and fruits while he seeks sustenance in the grasses of the field.
Praise be to God! you have heard the call of the Kingdom."
(Abdu'l-Baha, Foundations of World Unity, p. 64)
You can read more of Andul-Baha's Books at http://www.bahaistudy.org/
2006-09-01 11:05:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they the two communicate to this: a million Corinthians 2 9 yet because it is written: "What eye has not considered, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human coronary heart, what God has arranged for people who love him," 10 this God has revealed to us by way of the Spirit.For the Spirit scrutinizes each and every thing, even the depths of God.
2016-10-01 04:22:29 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are one in the same.
2006-09-01 03:48:19 · answer #6 · answered by 0000000000000000000000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No difference: both are baits.
2006-09-01 03:47:10 · answer #7 · answered by Axel ∇ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the words
2006-09-01 03:45:13 · answer #8 · answered by bregweidd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are the same
2006-09-01 03:45:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anduy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mystical semantics..
Neither are true...
2006-09-01 03:49:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋