BloodTruth

I have been amazed to discover in recent days that there are a whole bunch of people who believe in their heart of hearts that guess what--eternity is not forever! Wow! Now they use the Greek translation of the New Testament and other resources to support their claim. I really don't understand what all the flap is about. Let's say that they were right just for sake of argument. Maybe the Bible is not in error, but the translators goofed up. While I don't believe that for a moment, there are some "lost sheep" who may. So let's say that eternity is not forever, but only 1,000,000 years for sake of argument. Ok, now, would that make one iota of difference in whether I gave my life and future to Jesus Christ? Not one bit! And it should not for you either, even though the assertion that eternity is not forever is laughable.

Psalm Psa 84:10 tells us, "Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked." Amen! Personally, based on my eternityexplained.com web site, I believe it would also be true that the "thousand elsewhere" could for me be a "googleplex of days" elsewhere, and it would be no less true or accurate. (A "googleplex of days" has nothing to do with search engines! It is merely a google to the google power. That means 10¹⁰⁰ to the 10¹⁰⁰th power. Trust me when I tell you that is an unimaginably large number and a lot of time, any way you cut it!)

All the people arguing about the meaning of eternity have way too much time on their hands, and I admit I'm a bit jealous of so much free time to do nothing but stir up trouble!

I think there is one thing we can ALL agree on, and that is that exactly 100 years from today I and these "eternity-is-not-forever" folks will absolutely, positively know the truth about what eternity is, no matter where that length of time is spent.

Oh, and one more thing--no human being has ever spent as much as one moment outside of what we call linear time, which is what we call time here on earth where one day follows the next. In Heaven there is very likely no such thing as time, so the concept of eternity is moot anyhow. I base that on 2 Pet 3:8 that tells us, "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." To me Peter is saying that God is not subject to linear time like we are. Exactly what Peter is saying is not absolutely clear to me, but it does indicate that God's timekeeping is way different than ours! It is sometimes sad or perhaps even amusing that on this planet people will argue over just about anything. Any (linear) time!

I see that there were a lot of so-called pro-choice people marching in Washington this weekend (April 24). Let's go back in the old time machine. Ok, now the year is 1848, the place is the seat of American politics then, and there is this HUGE protest march. But it's not about abortion. No, it's about something that was very controversial at the time, slavery. The slave owners are saying that no one has the right to intrude on their own property. And slaves were then property, not even fully human. If a person wanted to beat a slave senseless, that was ok with the slave owners, for that slave was just property and no one had a right to tell the "property owner" what he could or could not do with the "things" (as slaves were thought of) he owned.

There'd be a contingent along the side of the route of the pro-slavery marchers that would be trying to say that slaves were not property, that they were human beings with souls created by God just the same as non-slaves. They would say that it is cruel and inhuman to treat other humans as slaves, and kill or injure them at will with no penalty. They would contend that a slave owner's rights were not absolute, and that the slave had rights as well. And they'd be yelled down perhaps by the overwhelming numbers of slave owners marching that day, afraid that their "pro slavery" rights might be infringed.

Funny, it's like deja vu all over again in 2004. Only it is not slaves that are the topic, but unborn babies. And the arguments are the same on both sides. And the whole thing is highly emotional. The emancipation proclamation was what finally freed the slaves from their bondage. That, and thousands of lives lost in the Civil War, which turned out wasn't so civil. When will there be a similar proclamation that will free the "slaves of the 21st century"? Where's Abraham Lincoln when you need him?

Finally--I have developed a web site to explain eternity--well, as much as humanly possible! Check it out! It is aptly called eternityexplained.com. It is more or less a work in progress, and I hope to be adding to it in the near future, as I get inspired. But for now it may give you just a hint at the future holds. After all, the future is just a tiny part of eternity!

I have come to a very important conclusion the past few weeks. I am astounded that so many people would trade a few days or years of sinful pleasure for an eternity. Then it dawned on me: most people have no real idea of what eternity really is. Yes, we can use words like "forever" or "without end" or other such phrases, but they do not convey the true meaning of what infinite eternity is to our finite and limited minds. I'm working on changing that. I will have more information on this important topic in the near future, or perhaps even a web page dedicated to it. The human mind is not powerful enough to grasp eternity, so I will clearly demonstrate to one and all something that should be much more understandable: eternity minus one day! You won't have to be particularly good in math to understand it, for I will have done all the heavy lifting on the topic for you.

I will continue to pray that God will keep inspiring me to come up with something that will clearly put eternity into perspective. It should be interesting. Stay tuned!