An eternal life is a worthless life.

[Godscreated]

This just came to my mind.

This thread devolved quickly didn't it. Leave it to unbelievers to go from eternal life to eternal death, the vampire is the living dead right.

Everything we enjoy in our lives we enjoy because it ends. We enjoy food because the molecules that compose it react with our taste buds in a pleasant way.

What has taste got to do with eternity, after I've enjoyed a meal I look forward to the next without considering that I may not have a next. The developed countries enjoy the taste of because we brought extra flavor to the food, salt, spices, sugars and ect. We incorporate air into it, add heavy creams and many other things. We did not do this because we were going to miss a meal, we did it because we do have taste buds that a excited by certain flavors and we wanted to enjoy these taste every day. In the poorest places of the world they really do not care about all these flavors, they eat because the want to go on living and each of us would to if we were in their position. So when you boil it down (pun intended), we eat to live.

We enjoy having sex because it releases endorphins and a whole lot of other chemicals.

I can agree to a point about sex, I however look forward to my next experience not because the present one ended but, because the next one has a beginning.

But we enjoy those things because they have an end - that is, we value them because they are limited. It's like money: the more there is around, the less it is worth.

You seem to think the end has more significance than the beginning, just like a boy new to puberty. After you have lived several more years come back and revisit this idea you have.

We value the time we have in our life because it is limited. It has value, therefore it is worth something because it will eventually end and is a temporary condition that we must make the most of.

With this one I agree even more but not completely. I think that you have taken fun out of life by once again focusing on the end, one should enjoy the things in life be alive. Most normal people do not want to die, even Christians. Christians see life as a gift and desire to enjoy a gift, even though we know it will be restored to us in the future. We look forward to our eternal life because we understand God wouldn't bring us into His kingdom to be bored, we look forward to the unending experiences to come.

On the contrary, take an eternal life. Any experience you could have in that is potentially infinitely replicable. Wouldn't that mean that any experience you could have in an eternal life is ultimately worthless and meaningless? Why, then, would anyone even want an eternal life? Isn't then the very concept of eternal life an illogical exploitation of our natural fear of the unknown?

You are speaking like someone who can get bored easily, who doesn't enjoy the same experiences again and again, like a boy new to puberty you look to the end and not to the beginning, you might (this is a suggestion only) want to reevaluate the way you see life.

GC