That almost thing is going to stick with me forever. I could have been done with all worry and doubt. But no... I had to live through it. So.. I get to do that whole exersize over again.
Harumph.
I'd rather be on a cross and be told I was going to join Jesus in Paradise.
And trust me.. as far as the pain goes? One is about as good as the other. At least it was spring when the crosses got put up.
It was frigging COLD when I almost, nearly died the first time.
/johnny
Two reasons, first because it is true second, because it is in the Bible:
1Pe 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
1Pe 3:19 in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,
1Pe 3:20 because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
Clearly Jesus did not go straight to heaven, he spent some "Time" preaching to those not already in "Hell."
Good point.