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To: Quix
Let me clarify...
 
 
We'll have a NEW earth: not this old one, recycled.  So an Eden on Earth needs a bit more explaining.
 
NIV Matthew 24:35
  Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
 

Mark and Luke echo this verse, which points to...
 

NIV 2 Peter 3:7
   By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
 
Then to.....
 
NIV 2 Peter 3:10-11
 10.  But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
 11.  Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be?
You ought to live holy and godly lives
 12.  as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.  That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.
 13.  But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.
 
...and lastly...
 
NIV Revelation 21:1
   Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
 
Ok?
 
;^)

571 posted on 01/20/2005 9:46:54 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie
Jehovah Witness eschatology (From here -->  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_times#The_end_times_according_to_the_Jehovah.27s_Witnesses )

1000-year reign of Jesus Christ. Survivors of Har-Magedon will work to make the earth a paradise, like the original Garden of Eden, and will gradually be restored to perfection. It is thought that the dead will be resurrected at this time and given the chance to learn righteousness. (Isaiah 26:9, 10)

(Not exactly what the BOOK says, eh?!)

 

 

And here, their OFFICIAL site --> http://www.watchtower.org/library/rq/index.htm?article=article_03.htm 

[be sure to read their scripture references to see if the meaning they CLAIM is in it, really is!]

573 posted on 01/20/2005 10:01:16 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie

Certainly I believe all the Scriptures.

Nevertheless, I don't know that those Scriptures preclude recycled. Maybe it does. I don't think we have enough information to know.

I don't know that it matters at all to anything we have to be concerned about either way.


If a rock house is pulverized to gravel and a new house is made out of the gravel--isn't the new house quite new?


590 posted on 01/20/2005 7:31:02 PM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. 2 TIM 3:5)
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