06 Oct '09 13:34>
Originally posted by AgergPerhaps you are comparing the boredom of your life at present and projecting that out in an assumption that this is what any "eternal life" could be.
What a grim prospect!...to exist for an infinite period of time, where, for all times spent in that place you allegedy live out the rest of eternity, you have experienced not even the smallest conceivable fraction of the time left to endure.
The point when the only things new which remain to be done shall be comprised of mostly the incrementing of the coun ...[text shortened]... point that you're bored!!!
I'll take eternal [b]non-existence thankyou very much 😉[/b]
For me I came to Christ with not much thought as to eternity. Rather to remedy my present sense of emptiness and hollowness of life.
This does not mean that I did not have a lot of enjoyment. I did and do. It means that the enjoyment left something deeper in me still hungry. The enjoyment did not touch the deepest part of my being.
I think this is the point of Jesus standing up on the last day of a big enjoyable feast and insinuating the the crowd may still contain people who were thirsty. He did this on the conclusion of the party when everyone was to be feeling their best. Yet He knew that for some the deepest hunger was still not met because they did not have the Spirit of God within.
"Now on the LAST DAY, THE GREAT DAY OF THE FEAST, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come unto Me and drink.
He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.
But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified." (John 7:37-39)
Perhaps, in your "feast" your innermost being is still bored, thristly, unsatisfied. You imagine that any eternal existence would be more of the same boredom.
I recommend that your present day thirst would be quenched by the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ flowing out of your innermost being if you would come to Him.