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NASB | Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you [and approved of you as My chosen instrument], And before you were born I consecrated you [to Myself as My own]; I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations." [Ex 33:12; Is 49:1, 5; Rom 8:29] |
Subject: does eternal have a beginning? |
Bible Note: Ethan, first I offer the disclaimer that what I am going to say borders too closely on the abstruse and metaphysical for my own comfort; I hesitate to walk on so thin a layer of ice but will risk it in the hope that it may help in thinking about the eternal as it applies to the life of human beings. Human beings have not always existed. They are created and like all things created, they have a beginning. Even though their genesis, unlike God, who had no beginning, can be traced to a definite time, they who know Christ as Savior are promised eternal life with Him...... So, is there a sense in which there are two kinds of eternities? I think that there is. There is God's eternity: it has no beginning and no end. There is man's eternity: it has a beginning but no end. It may not help you to view it this way; and I'm first to admit that it is a clumsy and feeble attempt to explain it. And I confess also to my sometime foolishness in rushing in where angels fear to tread. Still and all, if it helps you, I will be pleased. If it doesn't, then I trust that the only effect of the post will be that it has used up a rather trifling amount of memory in Lockman's memory bank! --Hank |