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Not exact matches
Responding to the Pride
and Dionysus — I think there's something
about making the
Heavens and Earth in 6 days, then resting on the seventh.
At 62, I have already lived most of my life
and I don't quite care
about heaven or Hell but I do care
about the people with whom I share the
earth, my fellow pilgrims, so yes, I would still stick with the Jesus thing as it helps me to remember to be humble, charitable
and mindful in my daily walk so that I can contribute positively to the existence of others.
Again, what is your point beside not knowing what Jesus wrote
and knowing that he wrote
about 3
heaven and 3
earth ages.
I think early Christians invented that as a scary - sounding disclaimer because they were always talking
about how utopian
heaven is
and how much life on
earth sucks, so they didn't want anyone getting any ideas.
God created Adam from a handful of dirt
and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge
and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on
earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach
heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates
and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves
and wandered
about the town; belief in a circular, flat
earth.
... Instead of simply waiting for God to unveil the new
heaven and new
earth, [the Next Christians] give the world a taste of what God's kingdom is all
about — building up, repairing brokenness, showing mercy, reinstating hope,
and generally adding value (pp. 59 - 60).
This is the crowning glory of God's overarching plan in order to bring
about the perfect union of
heaven and earth and the final communion of all creatures in eternal bliss.
If this vision excites you, know that your engagement in pursuing peace
and health between African - American
and white Americans is exactly what Jesus was talking
about when he told us to pray like him: Your Kingdom come, your will be done on
earth as it is in
heaven.
Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal
and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of
heaven than a son of
earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes
and the miseries of my mother;
and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now
about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.
In addition to his advice to the young ruler, there was his clear injunction to store up treasure not on
earth but only in
heaven, his rather pointed remarks on the impossibility of dual service to both God
and Mammon, his parable
about the rich man
and Lazarus (which was not, I think we can grant, merely a warning against dissipation),
and so on.
Elohim meaning in Hebrew is «god or gods» so in Genesis when it's talking
about the creation is can be read as «the gods» created
heaven and earth.
Moreover, he cared
about persons in their total bodily - spiritual unity,
and with their life on
earth as well as in
heaven.
Christians are to be
about the work of announcing, building
and representing an entirely new kind of reality here
and now, on
earth as it is in
heaven.
Usually, even a non-Christian knows something
about the
earth, the
heavens,
and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful
and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life,
and the kingdom of
heaven?
Since the gospel is
about all of life,
and since the gospel invites us to live as though the new
heavens and new
earth were already here, then the gospel also invites us to live as if we never left the Garden of Eden.
Clearly,
heaven and earth have did NOT «pass away» during the generation He was speaking to (within the context of the signs He describes), so He could not have been speaking
about His own generation.
Catherine talks
about Christ as the bridge between
heaven and earth, divinity
and humanity.
So, for example, if your hear a pastor saying, «You have to take up your cross daily
and follow Jesus in order to go to
heaven when you die,» you can look in the text he is preaching from (maybe Matthew 16:24 - 26 or Luke 9:23 - 26),
and see that Jesus is talking
about saving your life (which is NOT the same thing as receiving eternal life) by living in a profitable way here on
earth (cf. Luke 9:24 - 25).
Science may tell us much that the biblical writers did not know
about the processes by which God continually fashions an unfinished world, but it can not go beyond the great truth stated in Genesis 1:1, «In the beginning God created the
heavens and the
earth.»
You talk
about technologies being redeemed or transformed in the new
heaven and new
earth.
You talk
about an abundance of human creations in the new
heaven and new
earth.
For example, on page 73, after writing some challenging ideas
about heaven, hell,
and life here on
earth, he raises questions
about the kingdom of God
and the afterlife:
God is creator of
heaven and earth, a loving God concerned
about human beings — the children of God who are of infinite worth in his sight.
The natural man, the pagan, thinks thus: «O well, I admit that I have not understood everything in
heaven and earth; if there is to be a revelation, let it inform us
about the heavenly; but that there should be a revelation to explain what sin is, that is the most preposterous thing of all.
Were we to caricature the traditional position of the Christians
and the Marxists we might say: Christianity proclaimed a new
heaven, but forgot
about a new
earth; while Marxism proclaimed a new
earth, but forgot a new
heaven.12
The revelation of the Word, the building up of the Church
and the «Covenant», or family bond of communion between
heaven and earth, these are natural to the constitution of the universe, but they do not come
about by the laws of scientific inevitability.
Paul's words to the Thessalonians, according to Wright, are not the same as Gospel passages
about «the Son of man coming on the clouds» (such as Mark 13:26
and 14:62), which «are
about Jesus» vindication, his «coming» to
heaven from
earth.»
There is no awe here before the dread majesty of God,
and no respect for the Holy Table at which Christ is wrapped in linen
and His most Precious Blood poured out, where
heaven opens
and angels throng
about us, bringing
earth and heaven together... the mere sound of singing is preferred to the meaning of the words that are sung».
The Reverend William Corbin promised his people that it would «cause the
Heavens to drop Fatness round
about your Habitations,
and the Earth to bring forth Plenty; and you shall not fail of abundance of all things for the maintenance of your Grandeur and comfort of your Lives...» 2 And many substantial New Englanders found that the promises were fulfill
and the
Earth to bring forth Plenty;
and you shall not fail of abundance of all things for the maintenance of your Grandeur and comfort of your Lives...» 2 And many substantial New Englanders found that the promises were fulfill
and you shall not fail of abundance of all things for the maintenance of your Grandeur
and comfort of your Lives...» 2 And many substantial New Englanders found that the promises were fulfill
and comfort of your Lives...» 2
And many substantial New Englanders found that the promises were fulfill
And many substantial New Englanders found that the promises were fulfilled.
Is it possible
and after reading
about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me
and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help
and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know
and can easily think think
about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life
and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you
and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting
and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day
and moon was not visible on the
earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists
and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross
and also not for eternal life
and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced
and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot
and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus
and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit
and no more but recive their reward after their life in
heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell
and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before
and i think it was also Adam
and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan
and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't
and today we are seeing the result
The kingdom of God that Jesus talked
about wasn't just something that we hope for when we die, but something that we're to live
and bring on
earth as in
heaven.
In fact if we read the gospels there are things it says
about the sacrament of reconciliation where first God says to Peter, All things you bind on
earth are bound in
heaven and all that you loosen on
earth are loosened in
Heaven.
Also, what was that
about that verse the jesus dude said
about not changing a word in the law till
heaven and earth pass or whatever?
RC; I did not say anything
about heaven since that is for angels
and God's Kingdom of priests
and kings to rule over the
earth which God gave to man to live on forever
and that is what we have to look forward to (see Rev 20:6; Psalms 37
and Jesus words referring to that passage at Matt.5: 5).
There are deeper questions
about the possibility of the application of ethical values to political
and economic decisions
and about how Christians should interpret the prayer «Thy kingdom come on
earth as it is in
heaven».
You can read
about those 3
earth and heaven ages in the bible too, if you knew how to read scriptures.
2 Peter 3 explains the 3
earth and heaven ages, I suggest you read it before you keep spewing atheists lies
about God's truth.
The first phrases talk
about creating the
Heavens and the
Earth and yet the
Earth didn't exist until ~ 9 billion years after the «
Heavens», in fact couldn't have existed until a few generations of stars burned
and exploded.
What is distinctive
and most striking
about this exegesis — «the one unheard - of novelty» — is the conception of the Son of Man living upon
earth prior to his coming in glory: he not only will come, sometime in the future, on the clouds of
heaven; he has already come, has suffered, has died, has risen again!
In Mary there is nothing,
and never has been anything, that is not in conformity with Christ, so everything
about her co-operates perfectly with her Son's mission, on
earth and in
heaven.
It means, obviously, that whatever science may tell us
about the processes by which creation takes place, science can never take the place of the Lord of
heaven and earth by whose wisdom
and power the processes were initiated
and continue.
From the imagery of incense
and candles, to the organization of the Mass, it's all
about bringing
heaven to
earth in that one moment in which the body
and blood of Christ is actually present, as we believe in the Catholic faith.
I'm giving you the link to the scriptures explaining the Foundation of the World so that you are not confused
about the 3
earth ages
and 3
heaven ages.
But wait, He's all
about doing away with evil
and creating an everlasting
heaven on
Earth.
«In the beginning God created the
heaven and the
earth» is the first verse of the Bible which says all creation that you
and everyone know, test
and think
about was created by God.
Therefore, among the central identifying characteristics of the followers of Jesus would be involvement in the struggle effectively to bring
about the Kingdom of God, «on
earth as it is in
heaven,» where freedom, fellowship, justice, responsible love reign
and where people live as brothers / sisters, equitably sharing the resources of God's creation
and being accountable for their own human future
and that of the created world.
All the science that human knowledge has reached
about the creation of the universe,
heavens and Earth is nothing but a drop of water out of an oceans of knowledge that human science yet not has yet reached!!
But for the skeptic or the atheist who might be drawn to the park out of curiosity, there is little to make them stop
and think
about the point of it all: Jesus, our savior who left
heaven, came down to
earth, lived a sinless existence,
and died so that we may have life abundantly.
There are three
heavens Satan is in prison in the 2nd
heaven soon he will be released this is what we should be talking
about and how the
earth will be the final resting place of the beast.