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Soren Kierkegaard, in his struggle to understand human existence, believed that time is a major factor for this understanding. As humans, we exist in time, and therefore it is an aspect of human nature, given that anything human entails human nature. The aim in this paper is to focus on the concept of ‘the eternal’ and how it relates to the human being. In order to do this we will need to develop Kierkegaard’s conception of the self, and the difference between spatialized time and life time. In his book The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard defines the self as: “Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation which relates itself to its own self; the self is not a relation, but that the relation relates itself to its own self. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two [components]. So regarded, man is not yet a self. In the relationship between two, the relation is the third as a negative unity, and the two relate themselves to the relation, and in the relation to the