In addition to an innate moral awareness, God has also placed a sense of the eternal within us. Human beings, unlike animals, are able to contemplate not only their day-to-day existence but also the very concepts of time, history, and eternity. That is because God “has put eternity into man’s heart” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Eternity is a recurring theme in Scripture. God alone is eternal (Psalm 93:2), having always existed,
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