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1 posted on 06/29/2020 3:57:46 PM PDT by JAG 5000
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To: JAG 5000
Spot on. You’re laying up treasures by posting it.

I’m gonna steal it.
2 posted on 06/29/2020 4:03:57 PM PDT by ScoochDude
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To: JAG 5000
Seriously, look up Francis Chan's "Rope Illustration" on YouTube. It's kind of mind blowing.
3 posted on 06/29/2020 4:19:50 PM PDT by Obadiah (Kill the deep state or lose the Republic.)
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To: JAG 5000

God designed our lifespan with this in mind.


4 posted on 06/29/2020 4:30:35 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: JAG 5000

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.


5 posted on 06/29/2020 4:38:02 PM PDT by Rock N Jones (1935)
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To: JAG 5000
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 (παραυτίκα (parautika), meaning it ceases in a moment.

7 posted on 06/29/2020 4:41:01 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: JAG 5000

More excuses.


13 posted on 06/29/2020 6:05:09 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: JAG 5000

There is no time in eternity.


14 posted on 06/29/2020 6:29:58 PM PDT by ADSUM
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To: JAG 5000

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.


15 posted on 06/29/2020 8:19:10 PM PDT by unlearner (Be ready for war.)
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