Can't let this one go.....
Verse 14 of Matthew 24 says the gospel will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations....and then the end will come. Yeah, that sure did happen when Jerusalem was destroyed....I had forgotten. (Snicker)
Read what Paul said in Col:1:23. Is he lying or are you mistaken. Either way, your argument is with Paul. You need to study the whole Bible.
Looks like you snickered too sone my friend.
Eagerly awaiting your reply or are you too going to bed as your fellow travelor did rather than answering scripture?
When I first read the Revelation, one thing really bothered me. It did not look like hell existed. So I ask my wife, "Honey, does hell exist?" and she replies, "Of course not, have you been drinking?"
So I searched to find out how I was so wrong for so long. The immortality of the soul, like so many other errors in modern Christianity, came from pagans from a long time ago like Plato. These guys felt earth was hell because of its constant chaos. They laid down on the ground and looked up and decided that the stars beyond the 7 planets that they could see was heaven or the pleroma or spirit world. The planets themselves were demi-gods, and spirits descended from the pleroma at birth and there mission was to shake off the earthly things, become heavenly, beg the demi-gods to help them, and re-ascend to the pleroma. When Paul went to Rome and the rest of the generally Hellenistic world and started to preach - and then left, this nonesense started creeping in.
Now, I ask you, Tenn2005, whart kind of God would we serve if we were first in heaven, then tossed out to try to live a righteous life in this sin infested world, only to die and have our "spirit" rise back to heaven, only to be tossed out again into the sinc infested world at judgement day? What kind of God would we serve if our loved ones were in heaven looking down at our suffering and watching us sin against God?