Thread: God - Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

Note the "Since there was a beginning, existence has not always been", thus my usage of the word.

I noted it as a false assumption underlying the failure to grasp eternity in the context of this discussion--perhaps I should have addressed it at greater length than simply pointing out that eternity is beginningless.

"Beginning" is a narrative contrivance: a literary device, a fiction. Existence only has a beginning if you're telling a story about it. There is no actual point where events are cleanly severed from their causes so that they may 'begin,' even if it is often convenient to speak as if it were so. The ordered march of events we perceive is a manifestation of the eternal; there is only one Now, which always has been and always will be.

It's always doing this: us, all of it.

Spoiler for heaven:

There is a party, everyone is there.
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time.
Its hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could be so exciting, and so much fun.

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

When this kiss is over it will start again.
It will not be any different, it will be exactly
The same.
Its hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could be so exciting, could be so much fun.