[fortheDeclaration]

I am told that a priest at the end of a long career of parish ministry was asked what he had learned for hearing so many confessions, and he said, "few people are happy and even fewer ever grow up."

Yes, staying in Romanism will do that!

And what is even worse is what the likely eternal future for them.

I don't find that to be the case in my Presbyterian church. We're quite a happy bunch, by the grace of God. And guys like Quix and blue-duncan and Manfred and the_conscience and wmfights and wileypink and scubienuc and forstkeeper and harleyd and ftd and 1000S and Lord-Calvinus and Gamecock all give every indication of being likewise contented and productive and happy by and for and through the merciful faith in Jesus Christ that God has blessed them with.

Amen.

I am so happy that I have a hard time believing that heaven is going to be even better! (1Cor.2:9)

[fortheDeclaration]

And what is even worse is what the likely eternal future for them.

Grammar correction: That should read, 'what is even worse is, for most of them, their eternal future.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I am so happy that I have a hard time believing that heaven is going to be even better! (1Cor.2:9)

LOL. AMEN!

"Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever" -- Psalm 146:3-6