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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Ordered by Verse | ||||||
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1 | "Ask and you shall receive" | Matt 7:7 | Jules | 57679 | ||
Asking for the filling of the Holy Spirit and for complete healing are good requests. Like you expressed, there are not easy answers in the realm of healing physical infirmities. Faith and mercy are one in the same according to the Hebrews expression of faith-"evidence of things unseen." Just as we read about mercy in the Bible, we may have faith that God gives His mercy to those who die before we want them to. Historically, God has taken young people to heaven because they were good. God knows who will appreciate His kingdom. Although loved ones on this side of heaven may not want the loved one to be with God, God wants him. God is sovereign and always wins. | ||||||
2 | "Ask and you shall receive" | Matt 7:7 | Emmaus | 57686 | ||
Jules, Have you really thought through the full meaning of your statement that: "Historically, God has taken young people to heaven because they were good."? I am not so sure it is either historical or biblical to make such an assertion. I am inclined to say that it is biblical and historical in the biblical sense that we die because of the sin of Adam and that we are all lost because of that sin alone before we even have the oppourtunity to commit our own sins. So if God does choose to take the youg who die to heaven it is because He (God) is good and merciful, and because Jesus died for our sins, including Adam's, not because the children are good. "For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive" 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 Emmaus |
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3 | "Ask and you shall receive" | Matt 7:7 | Jules | 57835 | ||
I have been thinking. I do believe people can produce good fruit in their lives. I have not given up hope in the goodness of others. | ||||||
4 | "Ask and you shall receive" | Matt 7:7 | Emmaus | 57841 | ||
Jules, I also believe that people can produce good fruit, but only with God's grace and it is because of that gift of grace to which we respond that God takes souls to heaven, not because of our own innate naturral goodness. Anyway, welome to the forum. Emmaus |
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