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To: Iscool
When I go home, it will be to Heaven...

So when Zion's Crossroads Baptist Church has a homecoming they kill everyone who attends? Or is it possible that "home" is used equivocally, meaning one thing in one context and another in another?

75 posted on 02/18/2009 6:39:31 AM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Mad Dawg
So when Zion's Crossroads Baptist Church has a homecoming they kill everyone who attends? Or is it possible that "home" is used equivocally, meaning one thing in one context and another in another?

In most cases but in yours, nope...

In a weekly catechesis, Pope John Paul II wrote:

In the context of Revelation, we know that the "heaven" or "happiness" in which we will find ourselves is neither an abstraction nor a physical place in the clouds but a living, personal relationship with the Holy Trinity. It is our meeting with the Father that takes place in the risen Christ through the communion of the Holy Spirit. It is always necessary to maintain a certain restraint in describing these "ultimate realities" since their depiction is always unsatisfactory (July 21, 1999).

The fundamental essence of heaven is union with God. The Catechism explains that "perfect life with the Most Holy Trinity . . . is called ‘heaven.’ Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness" (CCC 1024). It also states that "heaven is the blessed community of all who are perfectly incorporated into Christ" (CCC 1026).

From this place (http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2005/0509bt.asp)

You guys don't believe in Heaven as we do...For you, it's not a physical place...It's a state of mind....So I can understand why Rome is your home, your heaven...

But for us Bible Believers, Heaven is a physical, real place...And THAT place is OUR home...

76 posted on 02/18/2009 7:14:07 AM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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