WHERE'S GOD.. WHEN WE NEED HIM?

it also is the only reason I know I’ll see the people I love again, as well as the pets I have loved and taken care of. Love doesn’t end and it’s not meaningless. That means the objects of that love don’t end and are not meaningless, either.

God’s love is the only thing that keeps me going in the end. If I didn’t think God didn’t have my back and loved me, there’d really be no good reasons for existence, no real purpose. Existing for no reason wouldn’t make sense. Morality wouldn’t either, being nice to others would be no different than being bad to them. It’d all be relative and subjective.

And what in the world is that statement about not being sure of eternal life? I sounds as if you need to start building your faith in a large way.

Harry, Harry, Harry.. This is why I wrote the message and haven't replied to any of the answers, well, until now! Your reply to me is why IMHO, we are loosing the MESSAGE WAR, to a wider audience in the voter booth..

Who are you, in a broad context, to tell me what is in my heart, or how do you believe that only YOUR WAY, IS THE ONLY WAY?

Who, other than those who have actually conversed with THE ALMIGHTY, can say that I am not allowed to develop a devout relationship with MY LORD..

It is that arrogance that has driven me away from my former Church, and man made religion in general.. My Church told me my own sainted mother was excommunicated from her beloved Catholic Church, because she divorced my worthless and cruel father, and married a man the treated her like the queen she was..

If you actually believe that I will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven because I developed a more devout method to worship MY GOD, you might want to rethink that mindset..

In this thread, I never suggested that the Bible wasn't the spoken word, or that my way was absolute, I attempted to open up a dialog so others could tell us of their relationship..

IF there is an afterlife, IF, not there is not, you might be surprised who will be there to meet you, then again you might not ever find out who is there.. jus sayin.. :)

Carlo, Carlo, Carlo, :)

You are absolutely correct in the statement about me not knowing your heart, but what I do believe is that the bible is the inerrant word of God, and that word says that "because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." (Romans 10:9&10)

I (and everyone else) can only know your spoken confession (or written in this case), but God knows your heart.

I haven't been a Catholic for 50 years, and have been a Christian for the last twenty. Nothing that I every learned in the Catholic church prepared me for eternal life so I put almost no value in their teaching.

Here is the bottom line. If you have a right relationship with Jesus as defined by His teaching, your name will be in the Book of Life. Only you and God can know that, although others can gain insight into your life by witnessing the type of fruit that you are bearing for the Kingdom. "Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit."(Matthew 7:17)

In the end, one thing is certain. We will all stand before the judgment seat of God. "And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire. And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire." (Revelation 20:13-15)

I pray that you make it!

Harry, you are a GOOD MAN, and a real FRiend.. I value your opinion, not just because you set forth a worthy argument with wisdom and backed up with the WORDS OF OUR LORD, as written through the Blessed, but you care enough to worry about me, a virtual stranger.. You are doing GOD’S work as a Christian should, from your heart..

You have given me much to think about, and I promise that I will, because my eternal soul depends upon it.. Thank you Harry, may GOD continue to Bless you and yours..

MERRY CHRISTMAS.. from your FRiend Carlo

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