Posted on 06/29/2020 3:57:46 PM PDT by JAG 5000
JAG 5000 Writes:
The takeaway point of this article is that all human suffering for the Christian
will eventually become such a small fraction of our Total Experience that it will be almost non-existent.
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Announcment:
I will tell you up-front this is going to be a tedious read.
You will see why if you keep going. However if you are a Christian, it will make you happy.
Especially if you are suffering.
Or if someone you LOVE is a Christian who is suffering.
Come on.
You can do it.
Don't quit reading till the end.
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Let us assume a worst case scenario.
John Christian lived 100 years suffering severely every year he lived.
He even hurt as a new born, was still hurting when he entered Kindergarten, and he hurt all the way through High School.
John Christian never stopped hurting until the day he died.
John Christian spent his entire life in severe pain and all his money on doctors trying to get rid of the pain.
He never succeeded.
When he turned 75 he quit trying and decided to "just live with it" on out to the end and he did exactly that and
died at age 100, in severe pain, but trusting the Lord Jesus as his Savior.
Note: I don't think the Lord has ever allowed such as this to occur for one of His children, but I
need a "worst case scenario" here in order to make my point.
John Christian, after living 100 years in severe pain dies and goes to Heaven to be with the Lord for all Eternity.
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Here is where your patience is going to be severely tested.
But you can do it.
Past the test.
Keep on reading slow and carefully to the end.
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What is the percent ratio of 100 years to Eternity?
After John Christian had been in Heaven for 200 years, you'd have this fraction:100 divided by 200 = 0.5
After John Christian had been in Heaven for 500 years, you'd have this fraction:100 divided by 500 = 0.2
After 10,000 years, you'd have this fraction: 100 divided by 10,000 = 0.01
After 100,000 years, you'd have this fraction: 100 divided by 100,000 = 0.001
After 1,000,000 years in Heaven you'd have this fraction: 100 divided by 1,000,000 = 0.0001
After 10,000,000 years, you'd have this fraction: 100 divided by 10,000,000 = 0.00001
After 50,000,000 years, you'd have this fraction: 100 divided by 50,000,000 = 0.000002
After John Christian had been in Heaven for 100,000,000 years, you'd have this fraction: 100 divided by 100,000,000 = 0.000001
After 500,000,000 years, you'd have this fraction: 100 divided by 500,000,000 = 0.0000002
Question: How many zeros would you have after John Christian had been in Heaven for 999 trillion years?
Moreover, as Eternity rolled on, there would never come a time when you would not be adding more zeros?
At some point the 100 years of severe suffering experienced by John Christian in this life would become, in his mind and in his
total experience, a fraction so small as to be, for all practical purposes, totally and absolutely non-existent.
And again, as Eternity rolls on, the zeros would never cease to be added to the 0.
At some point in Eternity, you have 999 trillion to the power of 999 trillion . . zeros.
And once you reached this point, you would not even have "got started good" in adding zeros to the 0.0
God's Mercy and Grace: The mere passing of time in Eternity, will one day, for all practical purposes, reduce our earthly
suffering, with regard to our total experience, in percent ratio, to a fraction so small that it will be, de facto, non-existent.
Of course, all this is assuming that we have the "passing of years", in Eternity.
Eternity may have a totally different concept of Time than we now experience so that we will not have to wait, say,
999 trillion "years" for our earthly suffering to, de facto, vanish into oblivion.
That might happen the moment we enter Eternity.
But either way all our human suffering, will, in Eternity, vanish into percent-ratio-oblivion, and for all practical purposes, cease to exist.
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If you finished all that, you can be proud.
I know it was a struggle.
So what do you think about my article?
Did it make you happy?
I hope it did.
Try to tell me something nice, now. /Grin
JAG 5000.
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God designed our lifespan with this in mind.
I have been thinking the same thing recently. The short life on earth is not visible when compared to an infinite existence.
2 Corinthians 4 New King James Version (NKJV)
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
“Spot on. You’re laying up treasures by posting it.
I’m gonna steal it.”___ScoochDude
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Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Glad you want to steel it.
Spread the good news.
You don’t even have to give me credit.
God Bless.
Eternity doesn't approach time infinity as a limit. Instead, it is timeless, experiencing all time. In other words, you wouldn't experience a continuously shrinking percentage of suffering to bliss, but rather an instantaneous removal, not only of suffering, but of the past experience of suffering. That is why suffering in this world is not only light but momentary (παραυτίκα (parautika), meaning it ceases in a moment.
“Seriously, look up Francis Chan’s “Rope Illustration” on YouTube. It’s kind of mind blowing.”___Obadiah
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Thank you.
Appreciate the info.
“God designed our lifespan with this in mind.”__Boardwalk
Amen.
God Bless.
“I have been thinking the same thing recently. The short life on earth is not visible when compared to an infinite existence.
2 Corinthians 4 New King James Version (NKJV)
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen “___Rock N. Jones
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Great Post.
Thanks.
“Let me make this even easier to accept...
Eternity doesn’t approach time infinity as a limit. Instead, it is timeless, experiencing all time. In other words, you wouldn’t experience a continuously shrinking percentage of suffering to bliss, but rather an instantaneous removal, not only of suffering, but of the past experience of suffering. That is why suffering in this world is not only light but momentary (parautika), meaning it ceases in a moment.”___Chajin
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If that’s true, that’s even better.
Thanks.
Blmk
More excuses.
There is no time in eternity.
Very good word of encouragement.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 (NKJV)
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Revelation 21:4 (NKJV)
And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.
no time in eternity.
Or is it vice versa?
“The concept of time is simply an illusion made up of human memories, everything that has ever been and ever will be is happening RIGHT NOW.”
“https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/738387/Time-NOT-real-EVERYTHING-happens-same-time-einstein
Frankly I will take Apostle Paul’s version.
2 Corinthians 5 New Living Translation (NLT)
5 For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven,an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.
2 We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. 3 For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies.
“Very good word of encouragement.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 (NKJV)
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Revelation 21:4 (NKJV)
And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”___Unlearner
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Thanks.
I have always LOVED those verses.
May God Bless Us One And All.
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“More excuses.”___Perfect Lady
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You call them excuses.
I call them reasons.
Thought For Today:
“For God so loved the World
that He gave His one and only Son
that whoever believes in Him
shall not perish, but have Eternal Life.”
Note the particulars:
{1} perish
{2} Eternal Life
Choose {2} Eternal Life.
“There is no time in eternity.”___ADSUM
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My Opening Post clearly mentioned that possibility.
Its down near the bottom.
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