Cyclical versus linear time

When I finished reading Eliade's book on "The Myth of the Eternal Return", I finally figured out the main point of the text. Ancient society viewed time as cyclical i.e. creation to destruction and back to creation. Life is cyclical and this pattern continues forever. It does seem logical as we have the sunrise and sunset and that repeats itself every day. We have the seasons and mark the cycle with the New Year. How many times did I hear people talk about liking the four seasons. For fallen humans, the seasons bring variety that lessons boredom and gives us a sense of change-something different. Living in Colorado I would really like 2-3 months more of summer, but not the hot, humid climate when I lived in the deep South. Perhaps I am just acclimatized to the northern climate. Anyway, the Judaeo-Christian faith is based on a creation to judgment line. Within that line of time we have recurring cycles of days and seasons.
     Popular culture is trending back to cyclical time. And why not, if life just repeats itself, there is no judgment for our actions. Off the top of my head I think of the animation Lion King. The circle of life is restored and life is expected to follow that cycle. Star Wars has the good and bad side of the force; it goes in a cycle from bad temporarily triumphing, but ending with light overcoming the dark side. The fallacy in these philosophies is the lack of a future judgment. The book of Hebrew states that is appointed for a person to die once and then the judgment. Secondly, humans are more than simply physical beings. We have a supernatural component that has eternal consequences.An impending judgment should make us consider what we do with the time and resources we have.

Eliade, M. (1971) The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971