Posted on 09/04/2014 6:53:59 PM PDT by Kartographer
Why blab to us about this? You need to talk to the man upstairs on this one.
Then STFU ******e .
Your statement is puzzling. Does being Japanese preclude your wife from being a believer in Christ?
What if the God of the Bible is real, and the Bible really is God’s word and all of it true?
What then?
When reading your post I immediately thought of Jesus’s statement...
“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”
I do not understand what He meant by that, but it always sticks in my mind when I read comments by many who assume to understand all the “rules” of Christianity.
I am a Christian, because I was born into a Christian family, here in the USA, but perhaps my fortunate place of birth/faith represents only one of God’s “many mansions”.
Jesus is my path because of my upbringing, but when I consider that “pride” is one of the 7 deadly sins, I fear being “proud” of that inheritance.
I know only this, I am ignorant of His plans that are beyond my human and limited comprehension, and I fail, every day, to live up to what is expected of me.
None of us are capable of knowing the mind of God, all of us fall short, and we all need to ask for forgiveness. I could go on about splinters and beams, but most of you know about that.
Don’t let those among us who misrepresent Christianity, even though they are convinced they are “doing good”, turn you against the Creator of us all.
For all we know, God has a “mansion” planned for your wife, and many who profess to be Christians will be found wanting and turned away. I
Then you’ll have to give serious consideration to John 14:6.
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
Then you'd best be selling what you have and give the proceeds to the poor. Have you done so?
Your wife is probably a very nice woman. However, All our good is relative good; all our righteousness is relative righteousness. Compared to other men, we may appear good, righteous. But compared to the absolute goodness and righteousness of God, we are less than nothing.
The most natural thing in the world is for man to use one standard to measure themselves and another to judge everyone else. The men to whom Jesus directed most of his parables look at themselves from the standpoint of all their virtues. They were preoccupied with all the wonderful things they did. But when they look at others, they minimize anything that might be worthwhile and magnify the flaws they see. They measure themselves by comparing their strengths to other men’s weaknesses.
Mankind has a system based on two things: what he does and what he does not do. But nowhere is there a place in his system for what he is. Everything he is concerned with is external; there was nothing inside—no relationship with God, no fellowship, no faith. So why should people then say they deserve heaven if there is one? If there is no relationship with God?
The metaphor of the house and mansions seems to me to mean we go through a narrow door—full devotion to Him—and enter a wide place, with “room for all who come.”
Salvation is of the spirit, so our spirit must turn toward Him completely before we die. Beware of the pagan-like images of streets paved with gold and wings and halos and harps. If we have done even one tiny thing solely for Jesus, we have eternal life. Even if we don’t but want to and don’t have the time (deathbed conversion).
This is what it means to me.
Start at the six-minute mark, unless you want to hear all the news about their new church and their trip to Israel.
Jesus only stated that to the Young Ruler because He knew that greed was his greatest sin. God doesn’t need our money. He has plenty.
It would be like going to church and never being able to leave. Singing hymns would probably get old after the first trillion years.
I thought we had the End Days before the Last Hours.
Don’t buy no green bananas, hard peaches or avocados?
(And we can trow grammer out da window?)
The question is not about those who lived before Jesus came, nor of those who are in deepest, darkest Africa, those who lived before Jesus came and those in darkest Africa, God will judge them fairly.
The question is what will you do about question of the sin that lives in you.
God loved you so much, that he sent his son to take your place in the punishment that you deserve and died the death you deserve so that you would not have to pay that debt that you owe for breaking Gods laws. He loved you so much that he has put people in your path to show you the way to that narrow gate that leads to life. He wants to have a relationship with you.
Because they don't find the Iron Age claims of Christianity convincing, any more than the claims of Zalmoxians or the followers of Osiris.
Can you imagine riding one of those hardback benches (pews) for eternity? My buttocks are aching just thinking about it.
That can’t be right. Jesus wouldn’t make us do that. Once my a** goes to sleep, it starts snoring.
Heaven, not.
Heaven is not going to be an endless church service. There will be things (work) for us to do and an new earth to explore, we won’t be sitting on fluffy clouds playing harps and eating bonbon’s, that is boring. The bible does not describe heaven that way either.
Now someone’s going to say, “TD, silly boy. Heaven’s nothing like that!”
They really have no idea what it’s like—in fact, people probably spend more time critically thinking an old-fashioned (pre-Obama) vacation in Florida than they do the actual experience of Eternal Bliss.
But if you want specifics on Hell, well, you’ll get a real earful; I think it probably involves fidgeting (forever) on un-upholstered wood church furniture, but that’s just me.
Regards,
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