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Life is eternal

SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Staff member
Premium Member
Life can be eternal, or everlasting. But it doesn't have to be.

I guess it would be dependent on how one defines "life." Life, to me, is existence bound to a living body in pragmatic reality.

ETA: After looking at the M-W definitions, there is one that relates to spiritual existence transcending death.

So in that sense, I guess "life" could be considered eternal.
 

blü 2

Veteran Member
Premium Member
I believe I will see my loved ones again when a new earth flashes into existence. Rock on! I'd love to believe they go to heaven but I have big doubts about that. Heaven is earth!
That's not my view, but I wish you good luck with yours all the same.
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
I guess it would be dependent on how one defines "life." Life, to me, is existence bound to a living body in pragmatic reality.

ETA: After looking at the M-W definitions, there is one that relates to spiritual existence transcending death.

So in that sense, I guess "life" could be considered eternal.
In the sense that the Giver of life (the Almighty God) can cause something to stop existing, There is what is called the "breath of life."
 

Goldemar

A queer sort
I believe I will see my loved ones again when a new earth flashes into existence. Rock on! I'd love to believe they go to heaven but I have big doubts about that. Heaven is earth!

I believe that the life of the soul/spirit is eternal, but not the life of the physical body which dies. The soul/spirit I believe to eventually make it to a spiritual heaven, which is distinct from earth and the broader material world. In fact, I think that earth is the true hell.
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
I believe that the life of the soul/spirit is eternal, but not the life of the physical body which dies. The soul/spirit I believe to eventually make it to a spiritual heaven, which is distinct from earth and the broader material world. In fact, I think that earth is the true hell.
I hope not. Especially since the Bible says there will be a new earth in which righteousness and happiness will be forever.
 

rational experiences

Veteran Member
Humans live on a planet God as the angel type that went to hell. Itself to be the planet mass energy.

Unlike Satan terms a consuming sun... so it's one body as God earth isn't a sun god.

Satanism a human man's nuclear practice he says really isn't sun technology is it. As a sun is all consuming. Yet he uses sun advice.

How use of human words two times lies. It's one word one meaning.

If you weren't meant to change eternal hell body of rock not a sun god as it is still burning consuming.

Scientists prove to everyone they are life on earth destroyers only.

As the eternal type the man theist said wasnt hell status yet creation was all in hell was eternal. Not eternal hell as the type first thought upon as I want it and hence is eternal hell first.

Not I want eternal hell frozen not consuming. God planet position. He wanted suns terms in science.

What human liars did...coerce humans destructions by word use.

As eternal hell frozen is three words in explanation.

Not two evil words by intention.
 

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
I hope not. Especially since the Bible says there will be a new earth in which righteousness and happiness will be forever.
Eventually there will be a new earth where people will he more righteous and happier, but it will be for people who are living on earth and future generations who will live on earth. As @Goldemar said, the physical body dies, so everyone living on earth will eventually die and go to the to a spiritual heaven, which is distinct from earth and the broader material world.

The new earth will be for the living, not for the dead. Heaven is for the dead.
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
Eventually there will be a new earth where people will he more righteous and happier, but it will be for people who are living on earth and future generations who will live on earth. As @Goldemar said, the physical body dies, so everyone living on earth will eventually die and go to the to a spiritual heaven, which is distinct from earth and the broader material world.

The new earth will be for the living, not for the dead. Heaven is for the dead.
OK, Yes, the new earth will be for the living, not the dead. When anyone dies, the physical body dies. The remembrance of that person is in God's mind and He can resurrect the person.
 

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
OK, Yes, the new earth will be for the living, not the dead. When anyone dies, the physical body dies. The remembrance of that person is in God's mind and He can resurrect the person.
I do not believe God is going to resurrect any physical bodies from their graves.
Why would God do that? The physical body was created to be mortal.
Below is what I believe resurrection from the dead means.

The Resuscitation of Man from the Dead and His Entrance into Eternal Life

421. When the body is no longer able to perform the bodily functions in the natural world that correspond to the spirit’s thoughts and affections, which the spirit has from the spiritual world, man is said to die. This takes place when the respiration of the lungs and the beatings of the heart cease. But the man does not die; he is merely separated from the bodily part that was of use to him in the world, while the man himself continues to live. It is said that the man himself continues to live since man is not a man because of his body but because of his spirit, for it is the spirit that thinks in man, and thought with affection is what constitutes man. Evidently, then, the death of man is merely his passing from one world into another. And this is why in the Word in its internal sense “death” signifies resurrection and continuation of life. Heaven and Hell, p. 351
 

Sheldon

Veteran Member
I believe I will see my loved ones again when a new earth flashes into existence. Rock on! I'd love to believe they go to heaven but I have big doubts about that. Heaven is earth!


Life isn't eternal, death is mentioned in the definition.
 
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