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As for #4, how can you have something eternal in a non-eternal universe?
A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007
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(Here Prior takes propositions to be non-eternal, so that their truth value might change over time.)
Descriptions Ludlow, Peter 2007
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I find that most religious believers are actually happier with the idea of a non-eternal universe, so your comment quoted above would not seem to apply.
Please Tell Me What “God” Means Sean 2007
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An eternal task for the non-eternal human. sit; stand; jump; d. l.
oatcake Diary Entry oatcake 2007
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At the same time it is impossible that the first cause, being eternal, should be destroyed; for since the process of becoming is not infinite in the upward direction, that which is the first thing by whose destruction something came to be must be non-eternal.
Metaphysics Aristotle 2002
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Accordingly, they have no destruction when the non-eternal are destroyed.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Reformed Church and the Netherlands State lost their sound and only safe basis by the assertion that there was something changeable, something non-eternal in the Bible; that this Bible, revered as containing the Holy
Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough
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( 'There is one eternal thinker, thinking non-eternal thoughts, who, though one, fulfils the desires of many ....')
Mary Olivier: a Life May Sinclair 1904
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One eternal thinker, thinking non-eternal thoughts.
Mary Olivier: a Life May Sinclair 1904
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Intellectual perfection means perfection of intellect; and intellect is perfect when we understand the true nature of things and never mistake the unreal for the real, matter for spirit, non-eternal for eternal, or _vice versa_.
Five Lectures on Reincarnation Swami Abhedananda 1902
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