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To: Aliska
It's based on Jesus words/teaching when asked by a widow which of her seven dead husbands would be her husband in heaven. Jesus answered her that she knew not (more words), those that are counted worthy of that life neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angels in heaven."

This is one reason why I hope that there is no heaven or hell.

The last place I would want to spend eternity would be with my ex-spouses. Or with my dead parents and most of my dead relatives, by the way.

50 posted on 01/19/2014 12:05:19 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper; Aliska

//It’s based on Jesus words/teaching when asked by a widow which of her seven dead husbands would be her husband in heaven. Jesus answered her that she knew not (more words), those that are counted worthy of that life neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angels in heaven.”//

That is totally taking that verse out of context. While it is true that there is no marriage in heaven (contrary to what Mormons teach), it does not make a case for celibacy.


100 posted on 01/19/2014 1:28:18 PM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.)
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To: elkfersupper
The last place I would want to spend eternity would be with my ex-spouses. Or with my dead parents and most of my dead relatives, by the way.

There aren't really very many people in this life left that I'd want anything to do with in eternity. I would like to meet up with and talk with my earthly father again but I was an emotional and financial drain on him and want to right that somehow.

I had this neatest dream not too long ago that I was holding my earthly father's hand and I was a little girl again. We were on some kind of grassy plain, holding hands, and running. All of a sudden we stopped at this perpendicular drop off, no fence or guards but didn't matter. I looked down into kind of a valley with all sorts of smallish buildings. I noticed there weren't any church steeples.

It probably doesn't mean anything and I take a medicine that can mess up dreams but it FELT good and liberating.

I don't want to be anywhere near my ex and his wife and many others. I'm sorry you don't want to be with your dead parents. I had conflicts with mine but my father I have a huge debt; he stuck by me when I might have given up. My mother, years later memories started surfacing and I have to live with the knowledge that I was a nuisance to her and she didn't want me around. She wasn't that way with my younger sister.

I would like to be worthy of meeting up with some of the early Christians, Your post is hard to respond to. Maybe I feel like you. I like this earth just fine; it's the evil people that make life so miserable.

I pray for my dead relatives. I don't think we should hold it against them that their lives didn't have some of the intellectual challenges and interests ours do.

You have to take this with a grain of salt but when I got home from my son's visitation (he died a tragic death I'll never get over) in 2012, I saw all these people at the funeral home in like a twilight zone. I was a little elevated from them and looked down and saw one youngish lady with her hands folded in prayer like she was praying for me. Then it dawned on me that these souls had no Christian faith and were truly lost and earthbound. Don't take anything I say too seriously.

171 posted on 01/19/2014 5:35:25 PM PST by Aliska
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To: elkfersupper
The last place I would want to spend eternity would be with my ex-spouses. Or with my dead parents and most of my dead relatives, by the way.

Sounds like you're a Huck Finn type. When Heaven was described to him, he allowed that he'd rather go to the other place, because all his friends would be there.

188 posted on 01/20/2014 8:22:40 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: elkfersupper
This is one reason why I hope that there is no heaven or hell.

The last place I would want to spend eternity would be with my ex-spouses. Or with my dead parents and most of my dead relatives, by the way.

Sounds like you'll have a long time to consort with those you appear to love and respect so much who don't get out of the heat. That should be fun for you to make up for lost time.

Just sayin......

196 posted on 01/20/2014 8:51:58 PM PST by Lakeshark (Mr Reid, tear down this law!)
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