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To: MHGinTN
Point taken, but seriously, I think it is the fear of death that God tells us all men have — that causes so many cultic offshoots to freak out over what actually goes on in Heaven.

Paul saw some of it when he was “caught up in the third heaven” and he could or would not discuss it. I think this is wisdom.

But it is curious as to how many cultish ideas about heaven are bandied about in the name of Jesus without regard to the given Word. And that Word says quite a bit already about the glories of Heaven for inquiring minds...

166 posted on 05/16/2010 7:50:05 PM PDT by TwoLegsGood ("...my sin is ever before me" - King David)
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To: TwoLegsGood
Interesting way to put it regarding Heaven ... there are two particular episodes in the Bible which I'm including in a book I'm working on titled That's In The Bible?

Among several fascinating things to write about, like 'Philip's Physics Lesson', and 'Time Traveler', there is the Daniel 5 episode of a being standing in one where/when and reaching into Belshazzar's where/when to write on the wall of party central. Then there is the fascinating scene where Jesus 'hide' Himself and walk past the Pharisees picking up stone to stone Him for say 'I Am' when they questioned Him about Abraham rejoicing at seeing His day.

Folks who do not read the Bible are really missing some of the most fascinating things which can challenge modern Physics and Cosmology! There are scenes in the Bible as fascinating as any Cosmoss, watch Mister Wizard, or NOVA episode. Can you imagine an iron axhead floating for retrieval from a river? Amazing stuff that ...

168 posted on 05/16/2010 7:59:39 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: TwoLegsGood

“And that Word says quite a bit already about the glories of Heaven for inquiring minds...”

Yes it does, and Roman Catholics understand it one way, Protestants another (almost in as many ways as there are protestant branches on the tree of the church) Orthodox understand it another way.

Unless you argue that only ONE Christ-worshipping church has it right, and the others are condemning all their followers with their grave errors,,, the answer obviously lies elsewhere.


170 posted on 05/16/2010 8:03:29 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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