what is eternity?

Question

is thier life after death

Answer 1

It's long, especialy towards the end.
No,you have it backward, it's death after life.

Answer 2

Eternity means that which is never ending. Never. I am convinced that those who gush about eternal life never actually stop and think about what eternity actually *is*.

Eternal bliss and eternal pain would be exactly the same. The glare of eternal consciousness would be infinitely awful.

The only sensible ideas of an afterlife are those which give us the prospect of a release from it, and oblivion.

That is what I think happens to us anyway, that after death there is nothing because there is no 'us' to experience anything. The same as things were before we were born.

PS: A note about Thalterma's posting below, where I disagree with his definition of eternity. It doesn't matter how much time exists before the experience of eternity. Eternity minus eternity is still eternity.

Answer 3

I am convinced there is life after death for one reason: Jesus Christ died and was placed in a tomb—and three days later came back to life.

Think about it a moment: What would it take to prove to us that there is life after death? The answer is clear: Someone would have to die, and then come back to life again. It wouldn't be enough for them to have a so-called "near-death" experience; their death would have to be real. And it wouldn't be enough for only one or two people to see them; it would require many witnesses.

But has this ever happened? Yes—when Jesus Christ rose from the grave! His death was real; hard-bitten Roman guards made sure He was dead before they took Him down from the cross. And His resurrection was real also, because hundreds saw Him during the next forty days. Paul, writing over 25 years later, noted that "he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living" (1 Corinthians 15:6).

How could this happen? It happened because Jesus Christ was not just another man. He was God's only Son, sent from heaven to save us from our sins. Only He could say, "I am the resurrection and the life. ... Whoever lives and believes in me will never die" (John 11:25-26). This can be your hope, by giving your life to Christ today.

Answer 4

By definition the end of life *is* death.

Is there the ability to experience after death. The answer is clearly no. You require a body to experience your surroundings, and for inner thought. After you die you cease functioning.

Perhaps time repeats itself, or some other weird phenomena occurs but I doubt that you will be a spirit floating around with the ability to experience the world around you.. Why would we require bodies in the first place if we did not need them?

The most likely and plausible answer is no. You as an individual cease to exist. Life continues after you die, you just are no longer there to experience it.

Answer 5

I believe there is life after death. In what form, I don't know. Do we go to Heaven or Hell? Do we get reincarnated? And eternity is forever and ever-til the end of time.

Answer 6

Eternity is another life in the spiritual world. Believing in the Life after Death is part of faith in God. The soul within our body keeps us alive, our soul wanders in our dream. Once our soul leaves our body we will be dead. But our soul will never die, it will bring along all our previous good or evil deeds to enter another world called eternity where we will have to answer for our qualification as the resident of Heaven or Hell .

Answer 7

Theists say that God is eternally existent. How this is understood depends on which definition of eternity is used. On the one hand, God may exist in eternity, a timeless existence where categories of past, present, and future just do not apply. On the other hand, God may exist for or through eternity, or at all times, having already existed for an infinite amount of time and being expected to continue to exist for an infinite amount of time.

Whichever definition of eternity is understood, it is common to observe that finite human beings cannot fully understand eternity, since it is either an infinite amount of the time we know or something other than the time and space we know. For the infinite definition, there are parallels that give some notion of an infinity -- of at least a potential infinity, or a series that begins and has not ended. A series of moments that has begun and not ended is however, not potentially eternal by that definition. A series of moments that has begun and not ended cannot be eternal, because even if it were to continue for the rest of (infinite) time, there would still be time prior to the initial moment in the series. The series of moments could not ever exist for all eternity because no matter what happened during the series of moments, nothing would ever cause the series of moments to have existed since the beginning of "eternity", and thus could never achieve the status of eternal or even potentially eternal.

Related to the notion of eternal existence in the concept of God as Creator, as a being completely independent of "everything else" that exists because he created everything else. (Contrast this with panentheism.) If this premise is true, then it follows that God is independent of both space and time, since these are properties of the universe. So according to this notion, God exists before time began, exists during all moments in time, and would continue to exist if somehow the universe and time itself were to cease to exist.

Related to 'eternal life', the biblical revelation first indicated that Man as a special created being is able to grasp the abstract concept in contrast with the lower animal world which did not have the ability to understand the concept of "eternity". See book of Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men .." (from Bible translation in the N.I.V.). Contrast this with the timeless existence definition, which would imply animals are blessed with eternal life from birth (because of their inability to grasp the concept of eternity or even time) , which is something mankind gave up when he was cast out of the "Garden of Eden". It is commonly believed among theists that although mankind can grasp the abstract concept of "eternity", one may only obtain "eternal life" once returned to God.

Afterlife is often believed to be eternal.

The afterlife (or life after death) is a generic term referring to a continuation of existence, typically spiritual, experiential, or ghost-like, beyond this world, or after death.

There are many different beliefs about what is after death, and even more recently due to the rise and influence of many more religious sects, cults, and the new age movement. A few cults have claimed that aliens in spaceships will take us away once we are dead. Others claim that aliens are breeding us for experiments, or performing tests on us. There is no end to the imaginary ways that we might truly exist and then die. We could be time travelers, or forever repeating in an eternal cycling of universes. Nietzsche wrote about the idea of the eternal return, where we will repeat forever all of our worst and best actions. Other beliefs today involve past life regressions, and reincarnation in ever more complicated ways. For example, one could simply be waking up from dreams within dreams, and never awakening into the real body for a very long time. There is the idea that this is all an illusion, or pure energy, and that we create our own reality, or move to parallel universes. Some believe that we manifest reality based on what we expect or unconsciously wish. The possibilities seem endless, and many wonder if there is a best way to describe what happens after death, making most beliefs mere opinions and full of false statements.

Answer 8

almost all religions believe so. each has a different way to get there. Only one is based on the death and resurrection. Only one has documented miracles. The Bible is the Only book used by archaeologist to find lost cities. Only one has listed the signs of Armageddon, signs that are now fulfilled or are being fulfilled.
If you are not aware of these signs you should study them. Even if you don't believe now, if you know the signs of the second coming, you can watch as they are being full filled. Then, you might have a change of heart.

Answer 9

We will know when we get there...wait.... no we won't.

Yes,there is life after death..and it is for eternity(never ending)

Answer 10

If you haven't been born again, you're already dead. If you believe in Christ Jesus, you have already passed from death into life. Eternity is simply time, as we understand time, without end. Peace.