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To: re_nortex

>>He explained that part of the boundless joy we Christians will experience in Heaven is the full awareness of the fate of sinners suffering forever. One of the many rewards of Eternal Life in God’s Heaven is the knowledge that Divine Justice is constantly being served for the damned.<<

That would not bring me joy. If they were simply annihilated, that would be enough and, I would consider, just (but I’m not God so I defer to Him). Then again, maybe in the afterlife we have a different attitude about watching others suffer for merely not accepting Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

This may be why I am not a member of the Church of Christ, though I was music director of a Christian church for a few years.


78 posted on 03/06/2011 4:21:09 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: RobRoy
That [observing the suffering of the damned] would not bring me joy. If they were simply annihilated, that would be enough and, I would consider, just (but I’m not God so I defer to Him). Then again, maybe in the afterlife we have a different attitude about watching others suffer for merely not accepting Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

Indeed it's hard to fathom what inestimable joy we'll have in God's Glorious Heaven. Our early minds simply can't grasp such things at this stage and even the great hymn, Amazing Grace give only mere a glimpse.

Nevertheless, it's not hard for me to imagine a supreme bliss while observing the endless punishment and eternal suffering of Saddam Hussein, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Ted Kennedy, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and other such wicked men.

79 posted on 03/06/2011 4:32:40 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: RobRoy
I was music director of a Christian church for a few years.

By "Christian", do you mean the Disciples of Christ? Although the church of Christ and the Disciples of Christ are rooted in the Stone-Campbell reformation movement, they traveled very divergent paths.

The Disciples of Christ are a member of the National Council of Churches and I find them far too liberal, both politically and in terms of Christian teaching. On the other hand, the churches of Christ (each congregation is autonomous) are almost always Conservative, both in terms of politics and and doctrine. Some accuse the churches of Christ as being "narrow" but I personally find such unwavering strictness to Christian principles laudable.

83 posted on 03/06/2011 5:39:14 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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