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The religious concept of "afterlife" is often presented as a long, long time.
But is the religious concept of eternity intended to be infinite? Time without end?
Infinite time is a very long time, particularly for a sentient being.
And one in "Heaven" would be exposed to a billion trillion eons; and as a percentage of infinite time, it would not yet have begun. A billion trillion is zero% of infinity.
The Topic Question:
I "eternity" as religion presents it, intended as infinite?
Or is it merely an indefinitely long time, until ... ? Judgement Day?
And then what?
Meanwhile astrophysicists that used to expect "the big crunch", now know that our universe is not merely expanding.
BUT !!
The rate of the expansion is accelerating.
Thus any "big crunch" (the opposite end of the Big Bang) would seem unlikely.
Instead astrophysicists expect cosmic heat death, the state of the cosmos after the energy flux in the cosmos drops to zero; when there are no longer stars which can maintain an energy gradient to sustain life.
How will that affect those in Heaven & Hell?
- Not affect them at all?
- Coincide with Judgement Day, or some other religious stage?
- other?
Stop being so logical. There is no logic in any afterlife no less an infinite one. As far as the universe is concerned it now appears that all matter will eventually be sucked into the black holes at the center of every galaxy and those black holes will be sucked into another big black hole leaving nothingness....or maybe another "Big Bang".