Eternality of God - Jeannie

Alright, folks here's more of my notes! God bless!

- Jeannie

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Eternal-Definition

I have two definitions as follows:

1. Eternal-Lasting forever; without beginning or end; always existing (opposed to temporal)

Random House Dictionary of the English Language
Copyright 1967
Random House

2. Without beginning or end; everlasting.

Webster's New World's Dictionary
Copyright 2003
Wiley Publishing, Inc. page 223
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Okie dokey now for some good 'ol commentary! :D

Eternality-Commentary-

Eternity is best conceived, not in the merely negative form of the non temporal of immeasurable time but positively, as the mode of the timeless self existence of the absolute [God] of the universe.

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For He was eternal, while as yet the world and time were not.

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Timeless existance-being or entity without change-is what we mean here by eternity. God, in His internal being is raised above time.

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The flux of time grows first intelligible to us only when we take in teh though of God as eternal-exalted above time

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Time, with it's succession of events, helps to fill out such ideas as we can form of the eternal, conceived as an endless progress. But, as finite beings, we can form no positive idea of eternity.

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Eternal existence is no more described by the notion of the present than by a past of a future

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Thus, then it is eternity not as immeasurable time, but rather as a mode of being of the immutable God, who is yet progressively revealing Himself in time which we have here set forth.

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That's the commentary I got! Here is how eternity is used in OT

Eternality-Usage

In the Old Testament, God's eternity is only negatively expressed as implying merely indefinitely extended time though Isaiah 40:28 takes on more of an absolute form.

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Alright, who's up for some Scripture?

Isaiah 40:28. "Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not faint or grow weary; there is no searching His understanding."

Amplified Version
Copyright 2006
Zondervan
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Hebrews 13:8. "Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, and today, and forever."

New International Version
Copyright 1976
Zondervan
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Psalm 90:2. Before the mountains were brought forth or ever You had formed and given birth to the earth and the world even from everlasting to everlasting."

Amplified Version
Copyright 1976
Zondervan
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Isaiah 57:15. Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, Whose Name is Holy: I dwell in teh high and holy place with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive teh spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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Daniel 4:3. How great are His signs! And how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His dominion is from generation to generation.

Amplified Version
Copyright 2006
Zondervan
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Alright here is the significance!!!!

Eternality-Significance

Eternity is not a mere negative idea; to make of eternity merely a blank and irrelevant negation of temporarily would not satisfy any proper theory of being; if functions as the positive relation to time of that eternal God who is king of all the eons.

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Our best knowledge of eternity as it exists in God, is not developed in any metaphysical fashion but after the positive and timeless modes of the spiritual life-the modes of trust and love.

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Peace be with you!

Jeannie