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    Eternity, as a concept derived from creaturely temporal e... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Considering the nature of eternity will make clear both the nature of God and his manner of knowing.

    Eternity, as a concept derived from creaturely temporal experience, is a creaturely concept applied analogically at best.

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    • 1.All human concepts originate from sensory experience within time, making temporal categories our fundamental cognitive framework.
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    • 2.Analogy requires some shared structural similarity; eternity shares no experiential basis with temporal existence, making it vacuous.
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    • 3.We cannot coherently imagine or intuit timelessness; whatever we mean by 'eternity' is merely negation of temporal properties.
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    • 1.Some abstract concepts (mathematics, logic) transcend temporal origin yet yield knowledge; temporal derivation doesn't determine validity.
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    • 2.Analogy permits meaningful discourse about non-experiential realities; we grasp 'eternity' relationally even if not intuitively.
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    • 3.The claim self-refutes: asserting limits on our concepts requires standing outside those limits, contradicting the original premise.
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