The Science of Forever

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The Science of Forever
By: Paul Cuaresma Basea

San Juan City, Philippines - Does forever really exist? Many of us could say no, but some would say yes. To begin with, let me present first to you the different perspective of forever. Wikipedia give us a meaning of forever as Eternity, a limitless amount of time. A good friend of mine defined forever as something to deal with God or associated with life after death. (Salumbides 2014). Forever is something that is subjective (Atezora 2014). Freedictionary.com definition is at all times; incessantly. With this definition, forever is something associated with timeless, limitless and for an infinite period of time. But, if such forever is definable, does it mean it really exist?  And if so, where does it exist? For 21st century generation the word forever is linked to an intimate relationship. It is when a couple is daydreaming that their relationship will last to forever. American Director Woody Allen said “I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying” (science.howstuffworks.com). In this perspective, he only relate forever as to immortality. But we all know that human can only live in a period of time. The idea of living forever might seem like one that's limited to fairy tales, particularly if you were born in 1800, when the average life expectancy was 35 years [source: Sieberg]. Some researchers believe that there's a limit on how many years a human being could live. As well has when this human tends to be in love, they’re love is for a portion of their lives only and will not continue if one or the other dies. Therefore forever in love does not exist.

Forever in some context.

Forever is more often associated with love, but does forever is for love only? Let us search forever in a wider perspective. Forever as for the eye of religion is something to do with life after death, or for the forthcoming of Christ to save the humanity. As a Catholic devotee since birth, my perspective in forever in a religion matter is when humans die and when he/she did good deeds when he/she still alive, the God will grant them an eternal life. But most Christians would be astonished and perplexed to find out that the Bible NEVER ONCE talks about "eternal" life, or ANYTHING happening  “forever” or “forever and ever”. In fact, the words eternal, everlasting, and forever NEVER appear in the New Testament. They are mistranslations of the Greek word “eon”. But before anyone gets too upset, there IS information in the Bible that speaks of what we understand as "eternal" life, but that word is not used. What the Bible says is that those living at the end of the eons will never die, because death will be abolished. ("The last enemy that will be abolished is -- death!" See 1 Cor 15:22-28.) The mistranslation of the word "eon" as everlasting, eternal, forever, and even "world", in the King James Version and nearly ALL translations of the Bible, leads to confusion and even sometimes to false doctrine. Some of the Bible translations have corrected some of the confusion by correctly translating the word "eon" as "age" which is much more accurate. But they don't do it in every instance. (goodnewsaboutgod.com). Therefore I am confused. (smiling). My understanding is that the word forever in Bible does not exist but the idea of forever exist. As eternal life of anything or something that is associated with it.


sources:
goodnewsaboutgod.com
science.howstuffworks.com
Wikipedia.com
www.theminimalists.com

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