God's Infinity

[friend of]

All hail the almighty everlasting and infinite God!

I've been trying to wrap my head around eternity and how living eternally will even be possible. It's essentially impossible to figure out in this life as we are finite beings operating within the time realm. Then, by looking to the stars, I am reminded of who God is and what he's capable of!

according to Google, there are 125 billion galaxies in our known universe. According to Google, there are 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in our known universe. 200 billion Trillion stars. The sheer number and scope gives me pause to doubt. How is that even possible! Surely Google is wrong... Psalms 147:4 "[God] determines the number of stars and calls them all by name." That's a lot of names!

No two stars shine exactly alike. No two planets are formed exactly alike. God knows them each by name and, one day in the future, God will obliterate this universe and everything in it and remake it all again. Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no more sea.

Seems like kind of a waste when we have only barely seen what this universe has in store. God knows these heavenly bodies, they are seen by Him, and that is enough. The Universe itself is the great indicator of God's infinity. It points to His never-ending character. His eternality. His endurance. We can rest assured in God's infinity and His gift of infinite worth: Life Everlasting.

Amen

 

[timothyu]

Eternity is a concept only fathomable within this universe. Once outside, one would go mad living with the concept unless we were not aware of it. A few billion years of singing and praising and a few billion more of hanging out would get pretty tedious.

 

[com7fy8]

God will obliterate this universe and everything in it and remake it all again.

See also Romans 8:20-21, and 2 Peter 3:10-13. Maybe you already know these scriptures, but someone else might want to explore these

Seems like kind of a waste when we have only barely seen what this universe has in store.

Yes, I can see how this could seem quite wasteful. After all, if a human makes some masterpiece of art, it can sell for millions of dollars and ones may try to preserve and display it for centuries.

And one star or planet made by God has more ability and marvelous wonder put into it than all human art combined. Even one growing blade of grass has more ingenuity in it, than all the human technical ability ever used.

So, then, why does God not save every blade of grass?

My opinion, "friend of", is the main masterpiece of God is how He changes humans to become and to love like Jesus. Our Father so treasures and delights in His own Son Jesus. And so, He has predestined out of His love, that there will be many children of God who are like Jesus so pleasing >

"For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren." (Romans 8:29)

So, possibly this can help us to have some perspective about why so many material and human things can become a mess, when you would think God might value what humans treasure. But our Father knows how His love is and how His Son is, and all that is human is not much for treasure, by comparison.

"Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,
.My lips shall praise You." (Psalm 63:3)

And this love "in our hearts" now already has God's very own eternal quality and beauty and goodness and personal tenderness of perfect intimate family caring and sharing >

"Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (Romans 5:5)

 

[Maria Billingsley]

All hail the almighty everlasting and infinite God!

I've been trying to wrap my head around eternity and how living eternally will even be possible. It's essentially impossible to figure out in this life as we are finite beings operating within the time realm. Then, by looking to the stars, I am reminded of who God is and what he's capable of!

according to Google, there are 125 billion galaxies in our known universe. According to Google, there are 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in our known universe. 200 billion Trillion stars. The sheer number and scope gives me pause to doubt. How is that even possible! Surely Google is wrong... Psalms 147:4 "[God] determines the number of stars and calls them all by name." That's a lot of names!

No two stars shine exactly alike. No two planets are formed exactly alike. God knows them each by name and, one day in the future, God will obliterate this universe and everything in it and remake it all again. Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no more sea.

Seems like kind of a waste when we have only barely seen what this universe has in store. God knows these heavenly bodies, they are seen by Him, and that is enough. The Universe itself is the great indicator of God's infinity. It points to His never-ending character. His eternality. His endurance. We can rest assured in God's infinity and His gift of infinite worth: Life Everlasting.

Amen

There is no sense of time in eternity. This may help.
Blessings

 

[d taylor]

Once born you enter into eternity.

 

[d taylor]

There is no sense of time in eternity. This may help.
Blessings

In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month.

 

[com7fy8]

Hi, Maria May I offer something?

There is no sense of time in eternity. This may help.
Blessings

First, I would say God is very conscious of time, since He knows all things. He is in eternity while actively in and through the movement of the sun and earth and moon . . . movement which is observed in order to measure time. But what is time? Can you give me a definition?

Time, as we humans relate to it has to do with the relative position of the earth spinning while orbiting around the sun. When we ask what time it is, all we are doing is asking how far our side of the earth has spun since we last saw the sun, or how far the earth will spin before it is dark.

But this does not tell us what time is. It tells how we can use the relative positions of the sun and earth and moon in order to measure time.

And there is timing, by the way. Timing is very important, involving how God has all things timed together with all other things. And God is very conscious about how He is working all things together according to His overall purpose and priority.

But still this does not define the time which ones are trying to measure, and the time during which there is God's timing.

So, how do we define what is this "time" that we can try to cut up into a day or a minute or a coffee break?

And in case you can't define it, how can you know if God knows and experiences something, if you don't even know what time is, enough to be able to define it? And I mean without some circular definition, like "time is the time it takes to do something."

I will offer . . . as opinions for you to decide what you think >

For humans, time is what we experience to be the passing of our conscious lives. And yes God is quite aware, while He dwells in eternity, of this passing away of our time.

But that is a definition according to human experience. I say time really is eternity, and it is measured in terms of days and by clocks, which isolate some part of ongoing eternity. And God is quite aware of eternity and therefore of time. After all, God is constantly so busy with timing the things of human experience . . . though indeed He is infinite and dwells in eternity > part of His being infinite is He is not limited from being personal with His children and also relating personally with even people of Satan's kingdom > He is not distant, certainly not conceited so He can not communicate with us; and so He is infinite . . . not limited in being able to personally share in love with us but also do some kind of good to evil people.

So - - eternity does have different points of past and present and future, as time does have. And we can check this out by how Jesus talks about how He was with the Father "before" (John 17:5) there was the world. "Before" means an earlier point in time, and it was in a period of eternity.

But this is not popular with some number of people.

Even so . . . I have offered scripture. And I consider why certain people want to say and maybe think that God is in some totally different realm so that He does not feel and experience the time which humans experience . . . ones feel God is distant from them and maybe not interested in them; and so ones can have ideas which fit with their own experience > I mean, if He is mainly theoretical for them, and not personal with them, it can be easy to have ideas which present Him as being out of reach and too different so that we can't share with Him in His own love. But if He is so distant, He is limited, not truly infinite, I dare consider. But I say God is not conceited and therefore distant, but in His infinite love He is very pleased to care for us and share personally with anyone.

Anybody? Yes! Anybody!!

But more than time is God's timing, in any case And His timing is very personal . . . connected with all of us, coordinating all things especially for the benefit of whoever is submissive to God in His peace (Colossians 3:15) and therefore is cooperating with the good which is coming in His timing.

 

[Halbhh]

"Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,
.My lips shall praise You." (Psalm 63:3)

 

[Fervent]

Eternity seems both simple and impossible to understand to me. There is no past or future in eternity, just an endless present. I suppose the difficulty comes from only knowing a world that is constantly in flux, as it seems eternity would be static.