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To: Quix; Alamo-Girl; .30Carbine; betty boop; Dr. Eckleburg; Alex Murphy; HarleyD
That still strikes me as a serious affront to Father who CREATED A TAILOR MADE PERSONALITY FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL and typically goes to ENORMOUSLY great lengths to protect and shape it

Does that include the antisocial personality as well?

Personality is the foundational substrate of existence as humans

...on earth, you forgot to say "on earth."

Do you think aggressiveness will play a role in heaven? Timidity? Are you going to have "social types?" Will people go to work? Will they watch TV? Will they be tempted? Will there be a fashion and shopping centers or ice cream to satisfy our sublimated passions? Will there be jealousy and envy? Will there be any needs? Will there be a need for Moses and Elijah and Peter and Paul? Will there be the generous and the frugal? Will there be marriage, and children and "heavenly idols?"

What do you believe this eternity spent with God will be like and why would yours or mine or anyone's personality, preference, desire, taste, etc. have any significance or effect? Competition?

Reality check.

901 posted on 03/17/2007 6:59:55 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50

This is mostly a mystifying post I'm brash enough to reply to.

I really can't quite make out what you're going on about or what your point is.

However, it appears that you have not registered conscioiusly what I've written before.

THERE IS NOTHING NEGATIVE, EVIL, LESS THAN GOD'S HIGHEST WHICH WILL SURVIVE AS PART OF OUR PERSONALITIES IN HEAVEN.

I don't know how to state that any more plainly. I've defined the terms repeatedly. I've given examples. All the words are pretty simple. I don't know where the disconnect is or how to fix it. I'm happy to try if I can understand where the communications problem is. But I have no clue at the moment.


909 posted on 03/17/2007 11:09:42 AM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS ABLE; LOVE GOD WHOLLY, HIM & HIS KINGDOM 1ST)
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To: kosta50

I think you mix up personality and behavior. We're all born with certain personality traits. As we sin, our behavior changes and so does our personality to a point. The basics are still there but they've been 'overwhelmed' by the sinful behaviors in our lives. An alcoholic probably wasn't born that way but became one later in life because of his stupid first step of taking a drink.

We will all be changed in a twinkling of an eye when the Lord returns and we rise to meet him in the air. I don't know if we'll have the same earthly personality but we'll certainly be recognizable by our friends and family who are there. We'll have a heavenly body. There are lots of things we just don't know, it's a mystery, but after I'm gone, I don't think I'll care too much as long as I'm in HIS presence.


962 posted on 03/18/2007 12:51:31 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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