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Latin word: ETERNAL/ETERNUS

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skydreamers:
Your post caused me to remember what Ray said in his letter to Hagee:


"It may be laid down as a rule that no language had, for some time after the first century A.D., any term to denote eternity." (Whence Eternity?, By: Alexander Thomson, p. 5). That's a telling statement. Not only doesn't the Hebrew or Greek Scriptures use a word meaning "eternity" or "endless time" in the original texts, it was impossible for them to do so. The Hebrew and Greek Languages had no word that meant "endless time" or "eternity." And further, no one has ever found such a word in ANY LANGUAGE before the second century to denote "endless time" or "eternity."

http://bible-truths.com/hagee1.htm


Peace,
Diana

Brett:

--- Quote from: oneofthefew on July 20, 2007, 12:08:10 AM ---Hi Brett,

I'm new to this forum and I came across your post. I hope I can give inputs concerning your question.

Out of my own curiosity, I tried to search for its literal meaning in latin and it seem to mean Eternal. Check the link below:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%231414

I hope this helps.

oneofthefew

--- End quote ---

Welcome to forum!

Thanks for the website. In history of 300's A.D. the Latin word eternus/aeternus mean 'age' like period of time, but today, they change in different mean eternal instead of 'age'. For example, hundreds years ago, 'gay' mean happy but today mean homosexual. Most of ancients words for meaning are no longer same meaning as today. Not only Latin, but Hebrew, Greek, etc. They change the meaning than in ancients. Jerome never believe eternus is endless.
 
Brett :D

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