How do you define, 'eternity'?

Answer 1

Infinity.

Answer 2

It HAS to be something other than infinite duration. To a human being a thousand years is an intellectual abstraction. 20 billion years is longer than the universe has been around (by anyone's count). And people expect to be positively engaged for even a fraction of that time? No matter how good the view, heaven and hell start feeling pretty much the same after a few centuries.

It has to be something different. Time ends, whatever that means, or you're outside of time. Perhaps you become aware of everything inside of time, like God. There's no sense of passing, just a permanent now. We certainly don't have the senses to imagine it.

Answer 3

While in the popular mind, eternity often simply means existing for an infinite, i.e., limitless, amount of time, many have used it to refer to a timeless existence altogether outside of time. There are a number of arguments for eternity, by which proponents of the concept, principally, Aristotle, purported to prove that matter, motion, and time must have existed eternally.

Answer 4

Eternity is describe as infinite time, that has no end or beginning. It's important to know that the original greek and hebrew manuscripts of the Bible do not have the word eternity in it at all. The greek word anion should be translated as age or eon.

Answer 5

No end, like a circle.

Heb 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

Do I understand eternity, no.

Answer 6

Consciousness minus time = eternity or the eternal moment, which is already now

Answer 7

God/afterlife are outside of our 3D space–time continuum. Thus, for that realm time does not exist. An eternity cannot be measured accurately.

Answer 8

The Circle of Life. The hoop that never ends.

Answer 9

Without beginning or end. Outside lineal time.

love and blessings Don

Answer 10

Never ending. Forever