What is the difference between eternity and everlasting

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Nimisha Kaushik. Latest posts by Nimisha Kaushik see all. When used as nouns , eternal means one who lives forever, whereas everlasting means an everlasting flower. When used as adjectives , eternal means lasting forever, whereas everlasting means lasting or enduring forever.

Everlasting is also adverb with the meaning: extremely. Both are used in the religious sense of lasting forever.

Although, as mentioned earlier, Everlasting tends to reference things that should normally expire but wont, and Eternal is just the concept of all time in the future that doesnt end. NordicRest: Sarahtonin What is different "immortalize"? NordicRest : Sarahtonin88 : What is different "immortalize"? We are mortal, we can die. If you become immortal, you cannot die. A vampire or a God is immortal.

To be immortalized is like, to have a pyramid made in your name, or a great monument or work. Our sentimentalities develope prejudice than hinder our abilities to see, hear, and comprehend the real Truth of the Kingdom of GOD, that is purposely ordered in such a way that only those who are qualified by the indwelling Holy Spirit will receive such in FAITH.

Eternity is outside of this current pressure of time that all of this cosmos is subject to. Beings in that dimension of eternity can be either Eternal i. For mankind, when we accept the propitiation of Christ, Christ birthes a Spirit of Himself within our being and we become a vested citizen of that Spiritual dimension of Eternity, now possessing Eternal Life without end, here, there, and beyond, forevermore.

And because we are Born again of Christ, we will one day enter that dimension of Eternity in triumph over that Sin Nature and in Victory over death and Hell. While this Everlasting Life does have its beginning and start here; being granted, and influenced by GOD while we are yet in our flesh, it will be of Everlasting benefit to participants both now, and on into our future citizenship in that celestial dimension of Eternity evermore.

Our right to inherit the Kingdom of GOD within and its Spiritual prosperity that is possible is exactly what that thief is come to steal, kill, and dstroy. Incidently, we gain our possession of Eternal Life in the death of Christ and we gain our right to inherit Everlasting Life in the resurrection of Jesus. July 17, at pm. If our motive is to be recognized as a learned and knowledgeable person it would be better to confess to being a conceited dabbler willing to lose all professed knowledge to gain one glimpse of insight from God the Holy spirit.

To the ancients these glimpses were considered essential to everyone, but in the present time and at times in the past these activities are repressed.

The powers that be have seen to it that we treat any desire for these interventions as suspect, irreligious and futile.

I find common belief with you James in much of what you wrote. August 21, at pm. I find your arguments somewhat unclear. Some of them I could take one way and agree with you, or take another way and disagree. This makes it difficult for me to know how to answer you. I would agree that we cannot understand the things of God without the help of the Spirit of God.

That is why it is important to establish a relationship with God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ before we ever embark on the quest to discover Biblical truth. Yet once we have done that, it is our job to seek the truth as best we can, trusting Him to aid us, as long as the place we are seeking it is the Word of God.

Of course, I could easily have accused him right back with the same accusation, and where would that have gotten us?

Since we cannot observe the Holy Spirit coming or going, as Christ says in John 3, all we can do is test our arguments against the Word of God. That is the only way we can test if our understanding is of the Spirit or not.

Faith is important, but we must define what faith is. I define true, Biblical faith as taking God at His word and responding accordingly.

You seem to define eternity as a dimension outside of time. Confounding the two says little. I do not see anywhere in the Bible that anyone is promised the hope of becoming a vested citizen of a Spiritual dimension of Eternity.

The water from the rock was spiritual water because water does not normally come from rocks, and so this water came directly from God. The body I currently have is natural because I received it by the normal process of birth, but my resurrection body will be spiritual because I will receive it directly from God, and not from normal human gestation.

Therefore, I would call the current dimension or three dimensions? That is why I would move away from it as a translation. If you pondered this, you might be able to improve your thinking on this matter. I personally do not believe that either everlasting or eternal is a good translation of the meaning of this word.

My personal feeling from studying the King James Version of the Bible is that the translators took these two words as being synonyms. The only other conclusion I could come to is that they were being purposefully deceptive, but I doubt that was the case.

I think we were meant to realize that these two are the same thing. Yet I wish they had not done what they did, for much confusion has resulted from their desire to translate with some variety. Nathan, Well said!

My hypersensitivity to the use of certain words was unfounded but I nevertheless am glad to be able to ask you about the references. It is difficult not being face to face to get a sense of the whole person. But this digital medium does afford a potential to communicate with people that one can relate to. I find it rare in my circles to be able to talk with brothers or sisters in depth about biblical concepts. The latter meaning has been dominant since 18c. James 1. It is not God who gives us lust and sin.

There is no sin in God and he cannot be tried through lust to sin. Can there even be lust for the one who possesses all? As to your request for the research paper I will send it to you when it is a complete rough draft for your critique but that will be a while. George, God is good, yes? September 25, at pm. I do not blame you for being sensitive to the use of strange words.

Of course, when you meet someone on the Internet, just about any belief is possible, and there is probably someone on the Internet who holds it! It is also, as you say, an opportunity to communicate with people you can relate to when you may perhaps be unable to find such people in your immediate local acquaintances.

I suppose it just took me thinking about it. That was an exercise in frustration! I tried to get him to see that I was saying what most lexicons say whereas he was going with the odd interpretation of two teachers whom I thought were wrong one of whom was Young, to give him credit , but he never gave up on it, and accused me of not respecting scholarship.

Ah, well. The word in the New Testament seems to clearly take on the idea of one or the other of these depending on the context. As you say, I do not think our wicked desires that lead us to be tempted and often to sin are from God, for He does not sin Himself, and would not solicit others to do so. Therefore this at least does not originate in God, though the desires themselves may be twisted from legitimate desires God put into us in the beginning.

You ask a good question about God and lust. I Thessalonians For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality. God desires our abstinence from sexual immortality. I would like to say that He always gets His wish, but I am afraid that, unless I count the number of true believers as being much smaller than I think it really is, it is clear that His desire is only fulfilled some of the time. Yes, God is good!

I do believe we can trust Him more than we can possibly know. As you say, trusting in His goodness and loving-kindness and justice is the best thing for us to do. November 27, at pm. To be eternal indicates an unchanging present tense presence — which only God is. No need to consider the realm of time when considering the word eternal- the only reason we are given to understand that God is the Alpha and the Omega is that we think in concepts of time — everything has a beginning with us.

It is for that reason that we are given the words for ever and evermore and everlasting. They all indicate a beginning and a continuation to completion without an end determined upon its beginning or a continuation within the presence of Him who is always present tense presence — eternal.

Everlasting refers to a relational situation from out of Him who alone is eternal and it suggests a beginning of such a relationship. December 18, at pm. There is a lot of truth in what you say.

For we human, created beings, everything must have a beginning, though we hope for a life without an end. Yet God is beyond and above all this. Everything else in our experience had a beginning, and is dependent on that beginning. Yet God is not that way. He was there in the beginning, and the beginning happened because of Him; He did not happen because of the beginning.

Thus God truly is eternal, and beyond just everlasting. All beginnings, all endings, everything that lasts, all is because of Him. Yet that said, the point of my article was not just to philosophize about everlasting versus eternal, but to deal with their use in Scripture. I believe that God wrote the Bible through human instruments, yet He wrote it originally in Hebrew, a smattering of Aramaic, and Greek.

As such, we must look to the original as the authoritative word, and not the translations. For that matter, while it does seem to me that the words olam and aionios can have an element of that which is ongoing, like everlasting or even like eternal, I do not think either of these ideas is inherent in these words, as an examination of all uses of these words will reveal. Things that are neither eternal nor everlasting are sometimes referred to by these words, and the significance does not seem in these cases to have to do with time at all.

That last paragraph reflects my opinion based on my studies, but regardless of my opinion the facts are clear: everlasting and eternal are translated from the same word s , and therefore are the same as they are used in the Bible. It would be a mistake to read into any passage containing these words any difference between the two, as this difference is just a creation of the translators and not of the original.

Whether or not philosophically or in English there is a difference, in the Bible usage of these words there is not. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.

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