Eternity, Life and Death

What is eternity?

Is mankind (humanity) eternal?

Why is eternity divided into 2 modes?

Eternity:

What is what was and what was has always been. What has always been will always be and is now. This concept of eternity defies every understanding and example of humanity and its influence on everything known and provable to it except for the idea that eternity is. Eternity is timeless.

Is mankind eternal?

The very constraint of humanity as we know it is time. Having a start and a stop, a beginning and an end. A birth and a death. So humanity seems to be only a facet of eternity and has been identified as a temporal or temporary existence. A stretch of time on a number-line. Starting at zero (non-existence/non-substance) and moving positively toward another point, something added to nothing to be a new point of some substance and existence. Not and then. Applied to humanity, called birth and life. Humanity has yet to fully explain this phenomena. We understand the reproductive process, but have yet to understand how it first started. Even less understood is the ending point. It seems that humanity is relegated to a certain number of years of living and then it expires. The number is not the same for every human. Some long, some short. But all end the same in what is called death.

Why is eternity divided into two distinct modes?

As humanity defines eternity, there are two facets of it. One being life and the other being death. It seems logical that perhaps there are actually four. The third the state of being is before life as humanity knows it. This facet is the one that truly defines the remaining two. This facet was the inclusion of humanity in the state of eternity before time began. Being. The temporal states of life and death (what is and was) only come to exist after separation from that eternal state of being (what is and ever will be). That separation was the beginning of time. The fourth and last state would be the  state of being after life and death are expired. That state is the end of time. It is also timeless, but it has two directions. One is toward and eternally reunified to the being from which it came and the other is away and forever separated from that being.