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To: RnMomof7
Scripture tells us that to be absent from the body is to be present to God ...there is no later..there is no second opportunity...Those that believe will be saved..those that refuse here will never change their mind.

What scripture? Citation please!

1 Peter 3:18-20
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit;
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

1 Peter 4:6
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also unto them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

28 posted on 09/27/2001 12:22:44 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
5:2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
5:3If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
5:4For we that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
5:5Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing [is] God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
5:6Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

5:7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
5:8We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
5:9Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
5:10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things [done] in [his] body, according to that he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.
5:11Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
29 posted on 09/27/2001 12:48:18 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: Myrddin
You misinterpret Peter so terribly, it is not even worth discussing it with you. If you want to think you will have a second chance after death, that is your problem. You are, of course, dead wrong, but if it makes you feel good, knock yourself out.
30 posted on 09/27/2001 12:53:01 PM PDT by Mark17
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