Difference between eternity and everlasting?

What difference?

Both are designed to describe time without end.

Eternity is the realization that time is a mental construct that does not exist outside of the context it is being viewed in.

Eternity happens in a moment called now.

To my understanding eternity is infinite much the same as your definition (as an atheist I have no wish to use the theoligal definitions). I have difficulties with everlasting. As a child I used to buy everlasting chews but they weren't. However, it probably has a starting point. Everlasting flowers are those which, once dried, never lose there colour. They will fade so I think everlasting has a beginning and ending but may take more than an average human lifetime I hope the manufacturers and retailers of those chews were everlasting, with an early end.

@ chi girl I am not here to answer for Trevor but I believe he was talking about the classic languages Ancient Greek and Latin from which a huge part of our modern western languages were derived. I'm English but can't speak Anglo Saxon.

Eternity is forever. Everlasting means that it lasts forever. So they basically mean the same thing.

eternity is growth & progress without a beginning nor end

everlasting is like a love story you hear in mystic stories =)

Everlasting

עוֹלָם

Transliteration = `owlam

Pronunciation = ō·läm' (Key)

Part of Speech

masculine noun

Root Word (Etymology)

From עָלַם (H5956)

TWOT Reference: 1631a

Outline of Biblical Usage

I.long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world

A.ancient time, long time (of past)

B.(of future)

i.for ever, always

ii.continuous existence, perpetual

iii.everlasting, indefinite or unending future, eternity

Eternity

עַד

Transliteration = `ad

Pronunciation = ad (Key)

Part of Speech

masculine noun

Root Word (Etymology)

From עָדָה (H5710)

Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1565a

Outline of Biblical Usage

I. perpetuity, for ever, continuing future

A. ancient (of past time)

B. for ever (of future time)

i. of continuous existence

C. for ever (of God's existence)