Does ETERNITY exist outside TIME or within it?

Question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity

Answer 1

It exists regardless of time. Time does not really exist. Time is a measurement of convenience for humans. For eternity to exist outside of time, then time would have to necessarily exist. Eternity exists regardless of time or anything else.
Eternity is infinity.

Answer 2

Depends.

Depends on how you define eternity, existence, outside, time and within. As Bill Clinton would say it depends on what you mean by is?

To quote a Greek poet: "In him we live and move and have our being."

We are within from several points of view. The problem here is that for some eternity is infinity, for others relative (no time can be had without space), for others a multi-dimensional question.

For those like myself ----- Well, eternity is not a dimension but a being, the Eternal Father; not a place at all but a person. To paraphrase Scripture --- forever measuring and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Answer 3

Take the infinity in the palm of your hand
And the eternity in an hour.
By William Blake.
This means eternity exists only within Time,otherwise this term means nothing.

Answer 4

Conceptually, eternity is outside the boundaries of time. Logically and organizationally, eternity is the referent so that in the organizational tree, eternity is an example of a kind of time. But common sense tells us that eternity is not restricted by time. Either eternity does not exist (less probable) or the tools which we have to explain eternity aren't sufficient (more probable).

Answer 5

Eternity must exist outside of time. Time is a measurement of progress, within eternity progress is irrelivent as there is no need to. Thus eternity exists outside time.

Answer 6

OMFG I have never seen so much BS in one set of answers---creative, educated, informed BS but BS nonetheless...

yes there is a bunch of stuff around Einstein's theories and time and space, but there is a simple common-sense answer to ALL this BS...

There never was a time when there was nothing. There never will be a time when there is nothing. There may be some things that we cannot presently observe, or explain, but there always was, and always will be, stuff. Eternity goes in both directions, past and future, and while we have limited abilities to observe/quantify it, it's not like time hits some mysterious wall somewhere. There always was and always will be, uh, STUFF. There never was, and never will be, a time when the universe contains nothing. There is stuff now, stuff then, and stuff to come.

And this stuff changes over time. Time cannot have ever not existed, nor will it ever cease to exist. We humans may not be here to measure it, but that won't change stuff from changing, over time.

hope this is helpful...have a star

Answer 7

I believe time does exist.
It is that thing which prevents everything from happening at once.
Humans didn't invent it. Humans might transcend it.
Eternity is like infinity as time is like space.
See how big the universe is? That's how old it is too.

For something to create the timespace grid it had to predate the timespace grid but without time there's no predating, so it's in another universe, a different reality, another plane of existence that was the cause of this reality.

The thing that created the photons at the beginning was not the source of all things not even itself, it was a consequence of another consequence that came from the source of all things.

I've probably confused you now..

♥Blessed Be♥
♥=∞

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Eternity it is a word invented to describe an infinite period of time which never ends.but as time is also a word invented to describe continuous change in one direction both eternity and time do not exist .Or something like that !

Answer 10

It's neither...

The night sky we see is only a tiny fraction of the "real" Big Picture...

The "true" appearance of TIME, etc, etc...

Is like a crazy sea anomalie looped and folded back into itself many times, liking a weird quantum rolly polly bug wrapped around itself inside and out, upside down, and all around...interdimensional...impossible to truly visualize with our limited brain power...strange...unexplainable...irritated...
not-talking...shy...kind of like a giant cosmically huge "Inch Worm" with an apathetic-yet-friendly attitude combined with a "don't go there" evasiveness and a short temper at times...

At this time, I would liked to finally introduce myself...

I am...

"Master of All Time...!!!" (almost ear-destroying, thunderously ominous voice that seems to emanate from everywhere and nowhere at the same time)