our imagining of eternity

[friend of]

Read this from the book "The King is Coming: Preparing to Meet Jesus"

(page 180)

"I think it was C.S. Lewis who said that our ability to imagine what eternity will be like is like two infants in a womb talking about what they will be doing once they are born and are 25-years-old."

I just thought that was interesting!

God bless!

 

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I like C.S. Lewis but I disagree with some of his sentiments and conclusions.

 

[d taylor]

We already have an idea, One we will be living on the new earth, which i am guessing will be close to what we have now, except without sin, death,

It looks like we will have injuries, but with out the pain., God gives leaves for healing.

 

[Spiritual Jew]

Read this from the book "The King is Coming: Preparing to Meet Jesus"

(page 180)

"I think it was C.S. Lewis who said that our ability to imagine what eternity will be like is like two infants in a womb talking about what they will be doing once they are born and are 25-years-old."

I just thought that was interesting!

God bless!

Yes, it is. And, if, with our finite minds, we could imagine what eternity would be like, that would be disappointing. I believe it will be beyond anything we can imagine. This is part of the reason why I see the description of the new Jerusalem and other heavenly things in Revelation as all being figurative because it can't be explained in a literal sense that the human mind can understand.

Paul saw the third heaven (paradise) and could not even describe what he saw or heard.

2 Cor 12:2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. 3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell.

 

[BobRyan]

Read this from the book "The King is Coming: Preparing to Meet Jesus"

(page 180)

"I think it was C.S. Lewis who said that our ability to imagine what eternity will be like is like two infants in a womb talking about what they will be doing once they are born and are 25-years-old."

I just thought that was interesting!

God bless!

Except to the extent that instead of God asking us to "imagine it" He takes the time to describe it to us -

 

[BobRyan]

So then -- something like this possibly...

Heaven