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1 | Who will inhabit the earth? | 2 Cor 5:8 | lovly2me1 | 84133 | ||
Dont know where your Galatians 1:10 fit in, but the rest is superb. So my next question is, why does everyone want to know about heaven, when they're not going there anyway? Nobody talks about living on the earth except the Jehovas Witnesses. Think we need to get this right, or would that be pleasing men, to get something right? | ||||||
2 | Who will inhabit the earth? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Asis | 84177 | ||
Go figure? We, who die before Jesus returns, will go to heaven we just won't stay there. I don't know what the Jehovah's Witnesses talk about. I'm too busy understanding what God is talking about. The problem today is we have been involved with religion for so long that its doctine has been accepted as truth. So when the truth comes along we call it heresy. Here is a for instance. Jesus said in John 14:2 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. [KJV] We believe that Jesus is going to build us some houses in heaven where we will live. We sing about it with hymns. A popular song by Eli said "that is all the lumber you sent." Yet we will live on the new earth in the new Jerusalem. Jerusalem will have many rooms, apartments, mansions in it. It will come down from heaven. Could that be what Jesus went to prepare? When we say that we won't live in heaven we are called bizarre and wierd and the defenders of religion attack. The seekers of truth look to the word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to instruct them in the truth. The truth needs NO defending. After all it is TRUTH. Mark 4:22 [Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to revelation.] For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything [temporarily] kept secret except in order that it may be made known Mark 4:24 And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you--and more [besides] will be given to you who hear. [Amplified] The reference to Galations 1:10 is about responding to questions in the forum. My life is to please God. I have offered it as a living sacrifice to Him. I therefore respond to questions and comments (notes) with the truth, the Scriptures as God has revealed them to me.God reveals the knowledge of Christ to us, individually and that knowledge is always true to the scriptures. Regardless of how others respond, I know that God talks to his children and reveals that which is a mystery to them. If others don't believe then Romans 3:3 applies. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? [KJV] I will not allow their unbelief to affect my belief. God knows me and I know that He is talking to His people today. Scripture in context bears witness to His intent, His will. Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? [KJV] I do not believe that God has made His word so complicated that it takes a degree from the hermenutical exegesical theological technical institute and semenary to understand it. There was a time when laymen led the church and it functioned just fine. Our relationship with God is a heart relationship. If ALL you do is done to please God, then when you are doing something that is displeasing to God He will let you know it. We call that conviction. If your heart is after God the conviction will lead to repentance and you will be right back where you were before. Pleasing God is the desire of your heart. You should not be concerned with your motives because your motive is to please God in all you do. yours in Christ, Jeff |
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