Not exact matches
Doing that in every flight trip I take make me
at rest that if any thing happened on the way
at least then if died will not
go waste but would face the mercy of God on my soul... Because there only in the upper
heavens or mid oceans you have nothing but the mercy of God and nothing in hand
to relay upon trying
to save self...!!!
Fortunately, you will never have
to suffer the defeat of discovering
at your death that there is no
heaven for you
to go to (or feel relief that there is no fiery inferno for you
to be tormented in for eternity).
Previously we had
to rely on second hand accounts
at best, the «I know a guy who prayed and it totally came true» or «I know this person who died and
went to heaven and came back» or «this person in our church saw a Smurf doll get up and start trying
to choke a baby...»
I am
going to assume you have no religious bent
at this time from what you write, so I ask you this: We both struggle, I have the assurance of
heaven; what hope for the end of your journey do you have?
Near the end, Papa could barely see, but whenever he was outside
at night (we often
went for rides singing his favorite Italian songs as we rode) he would raise his eyes
to the
heavens looking for stars, as he had all his life.
By extension, evolving from less advanced life forms is distasteful
to those same individuals, as that necessitates a point in evolution
at which humans are not really humans
at all in the modern sense, which then brings up problems such as «do slugs
go to heaven?»
If it changes your faith... then either you are looking
at it in a different way than I do, or you place too much stock in who gets into
heaven and who
goes to hell.
So Disgusted, I am guessing that tonight you will
go on your knees and pray
to Jesus
to open the gates of
heaven for you,
to be away from this generation of perverts... But wait, if you kneel down too often, you may be putting yourself
at risk of prepatellar bursitis.
If we are true believers of God and we have
to ensure that what we have been believing has been the Truth as ordained by God and have been doing good we will see
at the time of death
Heaven the place we are
going to, So when we see
heaven our worldly posessions like family, wealth etc
go into oblivion and we are not concerned the least about them since what we are now
going into will dazzle us so much.
I remember thinking
at the time (after I stopped laughing), isn't this what he wants,
to go to heaven?
I applaud what he is doing and hope that he brings others
to God throught the torture and bloody human sacrifice of his son (himself, actually) where he died (well, for a few hours anyway) for us all (
at least so the story
goes) so that we may live with him in
heaven (a great place for which no evidence or photographs exist) until the end of time.
No, people do not
go either
to heaven or hell
at death.
And when our discourse was brought
to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very
heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came
to our own minds, and
went beyond them, that we might arrive
at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.
At Matthew 10, in giving detailed instructions
to his newly appointed twelve apostles, he said: «As you
go preach, saying,» The kingdom of the
heavens has drawn near... Into whatever city or village you enter, search out in it is deserving, and stay there till you leave.
(John 20:17) The apostle Peter wrote in about 62 C.E that «he is
at God's right hand, for he
went his way
to heaven; and angels and authorities and powers were made subject
to him.»
The chief problem with St. Paul was that he wanted his entire parish
to go straight
to heaven at the precise moment he converted them, while his parishioners kept saying, «We'll be glad
to go, Paul, but we have a few other interests we would like
to deal with first.»
So here is my question, more for the religious than anyone else: If you know you will
go to heaven because the doctrine your foliow says you will (i.e. christians declaring jesus is their lord and savior, or muslims believing in Allah and Muhammed) then why is there any sadness
at a wake or a funeral
at all?
I love Allah and everyone I swear I want
to see everyone who reads this in
heaven, don't get mad do me a favor and please just like we Muslims respect ur book respect ours,
go and find a Quran translated in English and read read
at least the first 10 pages then listen
to a reciter his name Is sheikh al maher al Miakli, then ask ur self why am I hear if u will not sacrifice for god (Allah) s sake why did he Jesus say or sins our forgiven and let us do whatever we want here without purpose and give us
heaven.
The mediaeval interpretive assumption that God's purpose is
to save people out of the world so they escape and «
go to heaven» is unbiblical and confuses the biblical message
at every level.
Many national heroes will do well
to get into the kingdom of
heaven at all, while the saints
go marching in.
Joseph Ratzinger had answered from the Christian perspective precisely the question that Pope Francis» homily raised (if less reverently) in some circles of skeptics yesterday: If non-believers can
go to heaven, why bother with faith
at all?
christ was beaten and cruxified on a cross bc he preached of being the SON OF MAN, the only what
to get
to heaven but gays who are living in sin and refuse
to repent are accepted
at work and everywhere they
go and society cheers them on when they get married or when a state recongizes them, and anytime they are killed society comes
to their defense, but i say
to you, is will not be man that will judge them iw till
If only born - again Christians
go to heaven, then the piles of suitcases and bags of human hair displayed
at the Holocaust Museum represent thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children suffering eternal agony and the hands of angry God.
To be «saved» is not to go to heaven when you die (though that is part of it), but is to follow God in a new way of living life, a life of restoration and blessing directed at other
To be «saved» is not
to go to heaven when you die (though that is part of it), but is to follow God in a new way of living life, a life of restoration and blessing directed at other
to go to heaven when you die (though that is part of it), but is to follow God in a new way of living life, a life of restoration and blessing directed at other
to heaven when you die (though that is part of it), but is
to follow God in a new way of living life, a life of restoration and blessing directed at other
to follow God in a new way of living life, a life of restoration and blessing directed
at others.
I think Jesus was vegan as in Eden and
Heaven and so if we are
to make
heaven on earth then we must make vegan paths, but I do suspend my vegan choice sometimes because Jesus is on the menu
at churches and so I
go and eat him just incase it helps.
I think that this phenomenon illustrates NT Wright's point that «a massive assumption has been made in Western Christianity that the purpose of being a Christian is simply, or
at least mainly, «
to go to heaven when you die.
You will soon learn that human Jesus and human Allah and human Buddha gave up on you nasty losers centuries ago and
went off
to play cards and get ugly drunk over
at Flying Spaghetti Monster's
heaven.
In the five thousand one hundred and ninety - ninth year of the creation of the world from the time when God in the beginning created the
heavens and the earth; the two thousand nine hundred and fifty - seventh year after the flood; the two thousand and fifteenth year from the birth of Abraham; the one thousand five hundred and tenth year from Moses and the
going forth of the people of Israel from Egypt; the one thousand and thirty - second year from David's being anointed king; in the sixty - fifth week according
to the prophecy of Daniel; in the one hundred and ninety - fourth Olympiad; the seven hundred and fifty - second year from the foundation of the city of Rome; the forty - second year of the reign of Octavian Augustus; the whole world being
at peace in the sixth age of the world, Jesus Christ the eternal God and Son of the eternal Father, desiring
to sanctify the world by his most merciful coming, being conceived by the Holy Spirit, and nine months having passed since his conception, was born in Bethlehem of Judea of the Virgin Mary, being made flesh.
The Bible doesn't teach any other way
to go to heaven, except the by the way the thief
at the cross did.
And if you have received the fable that, well,
at least you are still
going to heaven, look
at Romans 8:1 & 8:9, and see if that is true.
But inheriting the Kingdom of God is not
at all the same thing as
going to heaven when you die.
All of you won; just like everyone
at the Bema seat will be
going to heaven.
The «christian view»
goes something like this, «there is a benevolent sky daddy who made some arbitrary rules that include condoning slavery and stoning unruly children
to death, and if I don't follow these rules, I burn in hell for all eternity... unless I ask for forgiveness
at some point before I die, then all is forgiven and I live in
heaven for all eternity, even if I'm a baby rapist!».
You're
going to laugh
at us from
heaven?
My life is not summed up in those things: my life is also still cleaning toilets and making supper, showing up
at church and
going for walks, texting how - are - you - really
to friends and sitting in my husband's lap
at the table, praying with now preposterously tall children
at bedtime and making sure everyone brushed their teeth, for
heaven's sake.
Tomorrow's episode looks
at whether or not animals
go to heaven!
Few wonder,
at least on a regular basis, if they'll
go to heaven when they die.
Yes, Christianity doesn't really play well with others since it is built into the theology (
at least parts of it like John) that only Christians get
to go to heaven.
The Gospel lesson is
going to speak presently of the terrible «things that are coming on the earth» and of the new thing --»... that the kingdom of
heaven is nigh
at hand.»
Where does God say,» Just do spiritual warfare on ONE ISSUE
at a time???»... Ever since the day of John the Baptist a WAR has been RACING in the
heavens, and the VIOLENT -LRB-... Holy Spiritually VIOLENT...) are taking it... BY FORCE!!!!... As for single moms???... The tiny home initiative has reduced homelessness in Utah by over 70 % and that takes about 45 - 60 % of a single year's aide
to build it THIS YEAR and next
to nothing
to keep it
going!!!!... Next issue....
But if we know we're
going to heaven, no matter what, that frees us up
to focus on other things, and focus on the task
at hand.
If a man's preaching is, «If you want
to be Christians, and if you want
to go to heaven, you must stop committing sins, you must take up good works, and if you do so regularly and constantly, and do not fail
to keep on
at it, you will make yourselves Christians, you will reconcile yourselves
to God, and you will
go to heaven.»
• In Matthew 25:1 Jesus says: «
At that time the kingdom of
heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and
went out
to meet the bridegroom.»
We
go home
at night and escape
to foreign lands on Netflix, while the grandest, realest, thickest (like the grass in C.S. Lewis»
heaven in The Great Divorce), truest story that has been or ever will be told is a story in which we find ourselves, or —
to use theologian Vanhoozer's language — a theatre in which we are not a passive, but participating audience.
This world isn't supposed
to be easy, it's not supposed
to be pleasant, it's supposed
to teach us hard lessons so when we
go home
to heaven, we won't even look
at the apple / pomegranate.
I wouldn't have recognized this
at the time but it was like I believed that since I was a pastor's kid, I an «in» with God... that the big guy looked
at me in association
to my parents, and that as long as I was
at church on Sundays (which I was) I was good
to go in his books with a ticket
to heaven, sins forgiven... snap!
it is idiotic
to join a religion that
at its core says that you don't
go to heaven.
The folks who subscribe
to the other ways of getting into
heaven all appear
to be
at least as equally satisfied as the Jesus - only subscribers that they're
going.
I am just
going to sit here on my padded bench
at the bus station waiting for the heavenly bus from
heaven to come pick me up and take me away
to eternal bliss.»
«The risen Jesus,
at the end of Matthew's gospel, does not say, «All authority in
heaven and on earth is given
to the books you are all
going to write,»» notes Wright, «but «All authority in
heaven and on earth is given
to me.