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NASB | 2 Corinthians 5:8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 5:8 we are [as I was saying] of good courage and confident hope, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. |
Subject: Is there no place for romance in Heaven? |
Bible Note: Hummmmm, this is VERY interesting. Thank you so much for taking the time with this most exquisit answer. My predicament has caused me to become most interested in the Heavenly life. I plan to do much studying on the subject. Am greatly wondering why God made us so different and Heavenly things so different from what we know. How can he expect us to understand or rejoice at things so foreign to us. Why involve us in such earthly relationships, especially marriage, of which so much is made of, causing more sin than anything and then have it to all shatter and cease to be, in place of something so foreign as All being married to Christ. Also, the Christian life, seems to be marred by "living to die". Why would we want such a thing, finding it necessary to enter into a life so foreign, that it defies logic. Certainly nothing to be happy about, just sitting around praising God all day long for an eternity. Wondering why he did not shed more light on the subject. Am thinking, there must be more in the scriptures that we have overlooked, such as the above article on the Bride and the marriage supper. I truely found this piece superb, which makes me want to delve a little deeper into its meaning. Am quite stuck at having been given "the greatest gift of all" being love, and having it so cruely taken away. Cannot seem to find the love in that. After all is said and done, Im sure that what I will find, is another situation in which "self has to die". Another hurdle that I will have to jump over or mountain I will have to climb. For truely it is a form of death and an obsticle that I must conquer. |