Posted on 08/11/2022 11:05:17 AM PDT by JAG 5000
You have to something besides singing all the time.
RE:“On Earth there are no answers. In Heaven there are no questions.”
RE:That’s a clever turn of phrase, but what does it mean?
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We all want answers that God does not allow us to have and he expects us to have faith in him and find out in due course what the answers are.
God did not allow Joseph (in Genesis) to know why he was falsely accused by Potiphar’s wife , the woman who said he sexually assaulted her despite the fact Joseph refused her advances. He went to prison where fellow prisoners lied that they would be on his side later.
In the future (13 years later) Joseph was welcomed as a seer for uncovering the meanings of dreams, given power and a chance to forgive his evil family who had sold him into slavery and had him cast into a pit to die slowly.
Joseph’s pronouncement: This was meant for evil but God turned it into good.(paraphrase) Genesis 50:20
That is correct. Point is, make sure one makes it to heaven. I don’t believe there will be answers in hell.
Okay, that's not registering. Hint, please.
The bottom line is... whatever it’s like and we are like.. it’s better than the alternative ;)
The CRC Handbook?
I’m guessing you have a copy laying around. Maybe you could take a peek for me. I am wondering who it says invented chemistry and physics?
When we get to heaven, we’ll realize our questions are too stupid to ask.
As I have been discussing the Bible with a muslim fellow, one of his stumbling blocks is, how can there be a triune God? As he puts it, ‘How can God have a partner?’ I explained that there are things in the Bible that I ‘comprehend’ and there are things that I must ‘apprehend’. I cannot understand how there can be One God in Three Persons, but I ‘apprehend’ that it is true.
Will we know ‘everything’ when we get to heaven? Not necessarily but we won’t care, being in God’s Presence for Eternity.
There are questions we now have, especially about the corrupt, that I don’t think we will have in Heaven, because the answers we want for those types of questions are usually related to our desire to see the corrupt “get theirs” -— not a typically Heavenly emotion. We will see the corrupt dealt with at The Judgment, but I don’t think we will be rejoicing at that, either, since, like Jesus, we won’t want even one to perish, though it be inevitable. We will all rejoice to see the devil and his demons be plunged into the lake of fire, though, as the source of all evil.
I also don’t think all the petty things we now worry about, will even come to our minds, in Heaven. The questions I think I might have, about the universe, the interpretation of certain Biblical texts, and other great unknowns, may or may not come to mind, then. Otoh, we will be taught, there. I wonder about what?
Exactly!
“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God”
(see 2 Timothy 3:14-17)
JAG
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Me too.
Btw, My view:
Heaven is a place where we really start our investigative work,
so answers to queations might matter hugely once
we get to the other side.
The intellect of the Sovereign God is off the charts, and we are
made in His image so we will excell in the brainy stuff out
there in the future. Probably be able to add numbers in our
head faster than a computer.
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I wastn’t thinking about that level of questions. I had in mind the deeper issues, for example how to harmonize the Sovereignty of God with the Free Will of mankind.
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The search for answers in Heaven need not be with the problems we had here on earth. There are other levels . . . higher levels of investigation in the sciences and physics and all the creative sciences. Maybe we will learn how to build space ships that will allow us to explore Andromeda.
Would you like to go to Andromeda?
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/BIG GRIN
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Beautiful song.
I’ve always loved it.
Thanks for posting it.
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Thanks . . .
and Amen
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Beautiful thoughts.
Actually magnificent.
Thanks for the input.
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Maybe we will have a heightened sense of curiosity — the good kind.
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Er, can you elaborate a little?
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