The name of this thread is insulting it isnt a theory its what your Father says. You are the ones with the theories not God. You can interpret however you all like the fact is When you are told be not ignorant of this thing God is going to tell you exactly what he means it is not a metaphor for eternity or anything else. He could have used the words forever or eternity or anything he wanted he choose this and put in this form because it is exactly what he met.So essentially you have all decided that God didn't really mean what he says because it doesn't fit in with what men have told you of scripture. Or as in Reddneo case he has developed his own explanations so Gods Word should be dismissed because it messes up his own ideas . So you guys have decided you know more than God?DO you guys not get this was a great mystery God has blessed you by telling you this because you need the knowledge to rightly interpt the Word and HIS time frames NOT YOUR OWN and you throw it back in his face and, say, oh we got our own ideas that we use, So thanks God, but no thanks we dont need your info. Well you buy anything you like but when God tells me not to be ignorant about something And then tells me what I need to know I going to believe him.2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.So you guys go right ahead and follow your own interpretations to make the Word fit your own ideas its much more convenient then listening to your Father.Heres another "be not ignorant" scripture that you can all chose to ignore, according to your reasoning, God must not really mean it just because he says it.Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. But hey what does God know (sarcasim here)