Is eternity in heaven logically impossible?
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Is eternity in heaven logically impossible?
I guess that if life would simply end with death and the person in the question would never be conscious again, one could argue that it also in such a situation would be unlikely that the person would be alive at any given moment. However, for the person in question it would not be strange at all to be alive, as out of all the time "available" to the person, the person would constantly be alive. The person would never find itself in the "very common" situation of being dead, as "finding" would require that the person would exist. I guess that argument is pretty much the same as the anthropic principle, which states that it is not weird that our universe is suitable for life as we could never find ourselves in a universe not suitable for life.
Is my reasoning flawed somewhere or is it virtually logically impossible that a finite life is followed by an eternity in heaven?
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What you and I understand by eternity is not eternity itself, which might be no more than a fancy trick of language, or of certain works of art.
If, on the other hand, there be eternity then it is beyond understanding.
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There is a huge amount of anecdotal evidence that subjective time dilation is often experienced during the time it takes for the brain to shut down, up to a matter of minutes after the heart has stopped. So one second in "normal time" could be be any length of time subjectively to the dying person who might feel as though they are living in their "dreamtime" forever.
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