Sentence examples for eternally existing from inspiring English sources
While, like all Buddhists, the Sarvastivadins consider everything empirical to be impermanent, they maintain that the dharma factors are eternally existing realities.
In the context of 2.13, this view is contrasted with two other cosmogonical views: 1) creation ex aliquo (i.e., the Platonic cosmogony on which God invests an eternally existing material substrate with forms); and 2) the Aristotelian position that the world is eternal.
The Moving Spotlight Theory accepts the eternalist view that the past, the present, and the future are equally real; it regards "the history of the world as existing eternally in a certain order of events".
Though in other accounts, creation ex aliquo often refers to God's creating the universe out of an eternally co-existing material principle which is not itself said to be created ex nihilo (see the most famous example of this view in the Timaeus; for a Jewish philosophical version of this idea, see Gersonides and Abraham Ibn Ezra for summary discussion see Pessin 2009, p. 281).
But an infinite body is an impossibility, and so too is an infinity of simultaneously existing finite bodies and, therefore, so is an eternally created world (PB 2.68 69, 76; Wippel, 1981, 160 63).
Always missing, eternally loving.
