Does the idea of future make the concept of eternity impossible?

Question

because "future" means a temporal development while "eternity" implies that time has stopped?

Answer 1

Actually, "eternity" could also imply that time continually moves forward.  Eternity could therefore be thought of as a perpetual occurence of future events.

Answer 2

The future is a perceived, specific, and anticipated point of time. If there were no humans aware to observe the movement of time, there would be no "future" in theory, time would not even be considered to be moving "forward" until a conscious being acknowledge its existense. Time is a measurement relative to the length that something can exist to oberve it.

Eternity is an infinite value of time, it is the endless vacuum within which time can flow through.

Humans can observe occurences in the future, past, and present within a period of infinite time, eternity.

Eternity does not imply that time has stopped it implies that there is no beginning or end.

Time does not make up eternity, eternity is a vehicle which allows for time to happen.

Answer 3

...there is a song called "Look for Me" and a lyric from this song is...

"When you've been there (Heaven) 10,000 yrs, a million, maybe 2. look for me, for I will be there too "...

...this says it all for me for Heaven does not exist in "time" as we understand it...

Answer 4

It appears to be so.

I fear that some/all of the other people here do not understand physical time (as opposed to conceptual time, which is measured by humans).

time is that in which all things work dissolution. It is a process of erosion or entropy or something physical. In other words, it is the process of degradation.

Thus, time is not a clock or a measurement, per se. Instead, the measurement is derived from the observation of its process, or intent--degradation.

"Eternity" seems to imply something of an autonomous state--rid of the elements of corrosion without. It does not die or cease, or degrade.

Therefore, It appears that time is not defineable or observable, or even applicable to the notion of eternity.

By that vein, it seems that I would have to say yes to your question; the idea of the future does negate the notion of eternity.

You would probably get an interesting answer if you ask this in the "physics" section.

Answer 5

No, of course not. Eternity doesn't mean time has stopped, otherwise it would be nothing. Eternity means past, present, and future SIMULTANEOUSLY.

You are mistaking eternity for nothing, which is why you conclude eternity is impossible, because "nothing", as a literal thing, is impossible, since it is nothing.

Nothing comes from nothing.

Something can not come from nothing.

Nothing nothings.

How does the negator negate herself? The answer is, she can not.

Answer 6

no, the fact that the universe will either "forever" expand or implode does.

if eternity was possible the size of the universe would need to be stable, or oscillating in a way that it would never crunch back down into itself, or spread out so thin it would eventually unravel into nothingness.

Answer 7

The concept 'future' is part of the notion 'eternity'; the notion subsists on the concept.

'Augustine of Hippo wrote that time exists only within the created universe, so that God exists outside of time; for God there is no past or future, but only an eternal present. One need not believe in God in order to hold this concept of eternity: for example, an atheist mathematician can maintain the philosophical tenet that numbers and the relationships among them exist outside of time, and so are in that sense eternal.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity