#197538 - 02/08/11 05:10 PM
Re: What's your view of the afterlife?
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flicka
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People want to equate the here after with earthly things and that's a terrible mistake.
That is why I asked you if you literally believed the Bible description of streets of gold, etc. I am surprised that you do.
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#197541 - 02/08/11 08:26 PM
Re: What's your view of the afterlife?
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ronniechoate34
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John:5:2: Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
John:5:3: In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
John:5:4: For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Luke:1:18: And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
Luke:1:19: And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
Luke:1:20: And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
Luke:1:21: And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.
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#197545 - 02/09/11 12:02 PM
Re: What's your view of the afterlife?
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flicka
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Is this your answer to my mention of streets of gold???
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#197547 - 02/09/11 08:50 PM
Re: What's your view of the afterlife?
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Deo
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I think we'll all sprout wings and spend eternity sitting on clouds strumming harps.
In reality, we'll probably just die and nothing happens...But I like identifying with Christianity as I understand it and I like the Christian Church community. I guess that's enough for me. I'm sure the deep thinkers like PaulI and Ghoti will laugh and pontificate on how uneducated I am as they are the cat's ass deep thinkers and academics, but it is what is and I hold my own, in any venue.
Liked your answer corlorde
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#197553 - 02/10/11 12:05 PM
Re: What's your view of the afterlife?
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IMO, anyone who "pontificates" about the afterlife or any aspect of religion is an arrogant fool. Everything is just speculation since no one knows the answers to any of this stuff. The mere fact that there is so much disagreement between the world's major religions is clear proof of this.
I enjoy hearing everyone's views as long as we can have respectful discussions about it, and this discussion has been a good example of that.
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#197559 - 02/10/11 02:50 PM
Re: What's your view of the afterlife?
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I believe we all have a very personalized view of "God" -- as God speaks to us in a very personalized way. Obviously, He doesn't speak to me as He does to, say, ronniechoate or Paulwa.
That said, it only follows that the "afterlife" is similarly personalized.
One Size Fits All isn't my idea of Heaven. Nor, truly, my idea of God.
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#200454 - 09/04/11 07:28 AM
Re: What's your view of the afterlife?
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ævory
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With all due respect to all Christian believers here, ... I've read the Bible quite thoroughly and know exactly what it says.
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#200463 - 09/04/11 10:48 PM
Re: What's your view of the afterlife?
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Paul I
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Interesting that with all the near death experiences we still have only one person who has reported on the afterlife experience and not much was said.
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#200465 - 09/05/11 01:40 AM
Re: What's your view of the afterlife?
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Linda252
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I don't know what happens after we die, but I am not laying awake at night worrying about it.
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#200466 - 09/05/11 05:38 AM
Re: What's your view of the afterlife?
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corlorde
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Interesting that with all the near death experiences we still have only one person who has reported on the afterlife experience and not much was said.
I know when I was dying in the ER, I don't remember seeing any lights, dead relatives, or recall floating above myself. I remember dark, blackness, and quiet. Maybe when people say hell is the absence of God, that is what they mean. I was never a believer in the fiery pits of hell stuff, anyway.
Edited by corlorde (09/05/11 05:38 AM)
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#200483 - 09/11/11 05:23 AM
Re: What's your view of the afterlife?
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ævory
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"Woe to him that is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up."
Ecclesiastes 4:10
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#200980 - 12/27/11 11:26 PM
Re: What's your view of the afterlife?
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Paulwa_dup1
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Colorde, I personally believe that those who don't accept Jesus as the son of God, at death, will just go into blackness and know nothing in death kind of like deep sleep without dreams or imagery of anykind. The bible says they will remain in that condition until the final resurrection and judgement. Then some will go into outer darkness and some will go into the fires of hell with satan and his angels. I think murderers and others of equal evil will wind up in hellfire for punishment though we probably don't understand actually what that is exactly.
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