Blunders. Typos. Mine.
1 posted on
07/29/2006 10:01:27 AM PDT by
Teófilo
To: Salvation; NYer; Nihil Obstat; mileschristi; rrstar96
2 posted on
07/29/2006 10:02:33 AM PDT by
Teófilo
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To: Teófilo
Scholars: Heaven, hell, meaningless to most AmericansWell, I think that's usually the case until it's too late.
3 posted on
07/29/2006 10:30:25 AM PDT by
InvisibleChurch
(No.... wire .... hangers!)
To: Teófilo
"...then what's the best way to think of heaven?"
Elysium, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good. This ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept from the face of the earth by the early Christians - may their souls be happy in Heaven!
Ambrose Bierce
4 posted on
07/29/2006 10:57:36 AM PDT by
GSlob
To: Teófilo
***Foggy notions of Heaven and Hell--and Purgatory--are not exclusive of Protestant fuzzy thinking.***
The god* of most Americans is a somewhat senile grandfather who likes to hand out gifts and sees sin as more of a mistake than an affront to his holiness. There is no room for the God of Abraham, Jacob, and Issac in the church of easy believism.
*That's right, with a little g.
7 posted on
07/29/2006 11:07:15 AM PDT by
Gamecock
("Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable." Robert Farrar Capon)
To: Teófilo
Those responsible for preaching must renew their preaching
by drinking in the waters of the original proclamation of the Apostles.
Only then will we be able to rescue the sense of our sinfulness and with it,
the right understanding of the realities of Death, Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory.I would amend that from "the Apostles" to Y'shua
( YHvH is our salvation) and following G-d's Law as Y'shua us commanded in
John 14:15 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
b'shem Y'shua
10 posted on
07/29/2006 11:26:30 AM PDT by
Uri’el-2012
(Isaiah 26:4 Trust in YHvH forever, because YHvH is the Rock eternal.)
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