Can we talk about eternity and hell?
Have you seen or heard the "football field" illustration of the age of the earth and where human life shows up? It's worth five minutes of your life. Just want the "Cliff's Notes" version? OK. Scientists believe the earth is 4.5 billion years old. Stretch those years across the 100 yards of a football field and you go over 90 yards before you start seeing mammals appear on the earth. Humanity as we know it shows up in the last inch before the goal line. Your life and mine are less than 1/1000 of a millimeter on this football field. That's not eternity, mind you, that's just a REALLY LONG TIME - 4.5 billion years. Now, let's imagine that there is another football field starting from today, and heading 4.5 billion years into the future. And let's say that something that a person does in their lifetime has the power to either give them an ice cream cone every day for the rest of those 4.5 billion years, or to make them