I think that god always recompenses those that suffer due to the choices he has made for them. But we suffer for our own choices as well. We reap what we sow, we dont have to reap suffering, but if we sowed it we will reap it.
Jesus never sowed hate and yet he suffered hate. That was...
If the streets of heaven is paved in gold (not that it is but lets say it is) it would be worth as much as tar. Or it simply is so abundant that it does not have any worth. In heaven there is no money system so things dont have a dollar worth. I think that on earth the value of life is different...
Do you think our resurrected bodies will have defects? Im just asking because it is better to enter the kingdom with one eye than have two and be thrown in hell. Now we know we wont have deformed resurrected bodies. And if you think about carefully this explains why earth is hell. Only place...
Never thought of it like that...would you mind expanding?
Wouldnt jail be the sentence though? If the jail is not the sentence than what do you feel it is?
Where do you think these spirits are now?
Why get a body if your already in hell?
Hope to see you around more often.
heneni
Great, now im worried about you too. The silly face is certainly not your style. Anyway...thanks for the concern. Im Ok, the only thing that can destroy me is me and i havent got around to it yet and God is in Hawai at the moment. PHEW! Anyway, you have gone and done it now..your on my prayer...
Thats it? Hope all is well? What.... no raiding of my chocolate stash or picking out asterixes for me, no humour, no....nothing. *Heneni falls on the ground and begs for forgiveness*
There is a scripture in the bible which says, that it is not in a man, not even in a good man to direct his steps. Sounds like no man has free will. But that is not entirely the case. It is not within a man to determine his birth date or the day he will die, neither is it in his ability to...
I think it gets more complicated when we consider the moral aspect of the value of life and distinctly more complicated when we consider the christian aspect of it.
Very interesting thread. I havent given it much thought but certainly want to now. What has come to mind as i was reading the OP was that perhaps we are more afraid of bacteria, virusses, spiders, bugs than we are of antelope? So therfore we are more willing to kill them out of fear than we are...
Yes Jesus spoke of resurrection. He said..unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies it remains alone, but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
Im sorry to hear that. I was rather hoping we could have some interesting discussions. But i'll be patient and wait for your return. Wont be the same without you. Hurry on back ok?
Heneni
The bible says...that we are a new creation. The old things have passed away. So...god started us..then he finished us and then he got us started.
We all know that any good leader is only really good because he has influence over those he leads. And believe it or not, god might not seem to...
Grace is a wonderful thing. It is not deserved. Mercy is a wonderful thing...it gives the guilty another chance. I dont have to read CP's posts so that i can evaluate whether the man needs grace or mercy. There is no being alive and that includes you, who are not in need of grace and mercy...
Hi there! I think that the parable deals with workers in the kingdom. I have a feeling it doesnt apply to salvation. The workers are not to blame for being idle. They need somebody to hire them to work. When asked why they are idle they respond by saying that nobody has hired them. The workman...
I dont know CP, i havent read his posts. Does that matter? What we have here, are christians flogging another christian which apparantly have been verbally flogging others or something like that. If you repay evil with evil all you are is evil. I would say that CP has been rather ill treated in...