bbyrd009
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i disagree, and would point out that you are disagreeing with Scripture, from eternity to eternity, etc. Aeons are forever on our timescale, but they do end, and new ones begin, as evidenced in Scripture directly too, at least in the original tongue. Meaning that we have passages that invoke "aeons" past that have been scribed out to make our notion of eternity as "forever" more palatable,You're speaking of eternity in terms of time. Time has a beginning and an end, eternity has no beginning or end. It' just a way of speaking about what we can't articulate to begin with.
What is an eon?
The word aeon /ˈiːɒn/, also spelled eon (in American English), originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timeless" or "for eternity". ... A cognate Latin word aevum or aeuum (cf.
all Greek, but in Hebrew this actually becomes more clear i guess