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
To: RnMomof7
RN, talking to this person, is casting your pearls before swine.
31 posted on
09/27/2001 12:53:53 PM PDT by
Mark17
To: RnMomof7
Your citation fails to support your assertion that there is no second chance. It does support the preference of believers to be with God when absent from the body. Jesus Christ alone will decide whether that preference is realized.
32 posted on
09/27/2001 1:05:16 PM PDT by
Myrddin
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