Concept of Enternity

Eternity as a timeless realm, without succession, duration or sequence. In this view, there is no âbeforeâ or âafterâ, and the past, present and future as we think of them all exist together in an eternal âNowâ. This was the view of the early Christian theologian St. Augustine and, before him, of Plato and the Neo-Platonists. target="_blank">Eternity as never-ending time, without beginning or end, but nevertheless time as we normally think of it, with duration and succession from the past towards the future. Such a view was held by Aristotle, as well as many early Christians (before St. Augustine) But, if the universe itself is not eternal, from the Christian/Muslim/Jewish viewpoint, the God that created it IS eternal. In these and many other religions, the presiding God or gods are assumed to live forever, and much ink has been spilled in clarifying exactly how this occurs. Depending on the religion or the particular religious commentator, God may be considered to exis...