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Haha.....that's the best testimony I have heard in a long time. The old man has more game than the young bucks! lol
We don't lose our attractions or desires in this life or the next they just get pointed in new directions. If you're still chasing after the 'godless Jezebels' of the world well that might mean you still love the world. But if you're chasing after the daughters of Christ that probably means you love Christ. Christians and their 'great monastery in the sky' views on heaven need to come out of the dark ages and into the 21st century. If the holier than thou types knew what heaven was really like they wouldn't believe it.
Heaven will be a nonstop party for the redeemed. 24/7 all day and all night.....forever! The party will never end and it will only get better and better as time rolls on.
i think you mean ,supporting my stated assumption or the conclusion i have presently been convinced of
"For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. matt 22-30
Matthew 22:23-33
Most Jewish people agreed that angels did not eat, drink or propagate (1 Enoch 15:6-7 ; Test. Ab. 4 , 6 A; ARN 1, 37 A). Some Jewish traditions also compared the righteous after death with angels (1 Enoch 39:5 ; 104:2-4 ; 2 Baruch 51:10-11 ). Since angels did not die (unless God destroyed them), they had no need to procreate. Jesus' statement about lack of marriage and procreation in heaven (Matt 22:30) follows largely from the logic of the resurrection, to which he now turns (vv. 31-32).
Early Jewish teachers regularly argued apart from the Bible with Gentiles or scoffers, but from Scripture for those who knew Scripture (Moore 1971:2:381). When debating the views of Sadducees who doubted the resurrection and demanded proof from the law of Moses, later rabbis found ample proof for this doctrine in the Bible's first five books (Sipre Deut. 329.2.1; b. Sanhedrin 90 b). One later rabbi went so far as to say that all texts implied the resurrection if one simply had the ingenuity to find it (Moore 1971:2:383; Sipre Deut. 306.28.3); however, this often meant reading it into the text! As an expert Scripture interpreter, Jesus here exposes his opponents' lack of Scripture knowledge with his standard formula, have you not read . . . ? (v. 31; see Matt 12:3; 19:4; 21:42,46).
(from IVP New Testament Commentary Series © 1992-2004. All rights reserved.
2 corith 4:16&5 1 to 10.-Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
Our heavenly dwelling is our resurrected body, like that of Jesus.
6 Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7 For we live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
2 Corinthians 5:1-5 Twice Paul says that his current situation causes him to groan (vv. 2,4), twice he states that he does not want to be unclothed but "overclothed" (vv. 2-3,4), and twice he remarks that he is "confident" about what he is telling them (vv. 6,8). There is also a piling up of compound verbs not found elsewhere in the New Testament, as Paul strains the limits of the language to express himself
References to being found naked (v. 3) and unclothed (v. 4) suggest that Paul is also combating some form of Greek dualism, where immortality is viewed as the shedding of the physical body at death and the persistence of the soul beyond the grave.
All human beings experience the dismantling of their earthly tent-dwelling. Christians, however, look forward to a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. In contrast to tent (sk¢n¢), the word building (oikodom¢) denotes a stable and permanent structure. Paul's language has led some to think in terms of a literal house in heaven (Charles Hodge; compare John 14:2, "in my Father's house are many rooms"), a heavenly church (Earle Ellis; J. A. T. Robinson), a heavenly temple (Guy Wagner) or the realm of the unseen and eternal (Victor Furnish). Later references to what is mortal being swallowed up by life (v. 4) and being away from the body (v. 8) point, rather, to the believer's hope of a material existence beyond the grave. The present tense, we have, has suggested to some the expectation of a material mode of existence at death. But, as in English, the present tense in Greek can have a future sense"we will have" (as in "I am going to the store after lunch"). Most, consequently, believe that Paul is talking about the resurrection-transformation of the believer at Christ's return.
All this, however, misses the point Paul is trying to make. The emphatic position of the verb stresses the certain possession of this building. God's intention for the believer is bodily existence, not disembodiment as some would claim. More specifically, those who face physical hardship and suffering as a result of their labors in the gospel ministry are assured that, come what may, a house of God's own designing (ek theoufrom God) awaits them. This house is distinguished in three ways. It is of heavenly versus earthly origin (in heaven). It is a permanent (eternal) as opposed to a temporary structure. And it is assembled by God rather than by human hands (not built by human hands).
(from IVP New Testament Commentary Series © 1992-2004. All rights reserved.
1corinth 15:35-44 - 5 But someone will ask, How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come? 36 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39 Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being[f]; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we[g] bear the image of the heavenly man.
50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
I feel like were going in a circle here... You say that in the newly created heavens if we become angels in that new heaven we won't desire to have sex, or to do any evil, but yet just as everything is recreated anew, repeats the old, and in the old heavens, (in the beginning of the Old heavens), before the old earth (and man and woman) were created, "all" the angels in heaven were holy in the beginning, until one day one high ranking angel became Jealous of his Father creating man and decided to mess with man, and then when God cursed that angel and kicked man and woman out of the garden and they bore sons and daughters, then some of the angels followed the cursed angel and lusted (sexual desire) for the daughters of men and went down and "somehow" someway had sex with them...
Now when we become a part of the new heavens and new earth who's to say the same thing won't happen again (circling, la-de-da) going in circles, a new heaven is created populated with new all holy angels, and then a new earth is created and one angel gets jealous interferes with newly created man on the earth and 1/3 of the angels fall for lusting after the daughters of men, who were supposed to be holy and free from these kinds of things, right?
Anyways the same thing happens and we do it all again, and again, and again, hell, the heavens and earth could have been created, destroyed, and re-created and destroyed and re-created hundreds of times over on the celestial time clock by now, who knows how many times we have done this...
God Bless!
I feel like were going in a circle here... You say that in the newly created heavens if we become angels in that new heaven we won't desire to have sex, or to do any evil, but yet just as everything is recreated anew, repeats the old, and in the old heavens, (in the beginning of the Old heavens), before the old earth (and man and woman) were created, "all" the angels in heaven were holy in the beginning, until one day one high ranking angel became Jealous of his Father creating man and decided to mess with man, and then when God cursed that angel and kicked man and woman out of the garden and they bore sons and daughters, then some of the angels followed the cursed angel and lusted (sexual desire) for the daughters of men and went down and "somehow" someway had sex with them...
Now when we become a part of the new heavens and new earth who's to say the same thing won't happen again (circling, la-de-da) going in circles, a new heaven is created populated with new all holy angels, and then a new earth is created and one angel gets jealous interferes with newly created man on the earth and 1/3 of the angels fall for lusting after the daughters of men, who were supposed to be holy and free from these kinds of things, right?
Anyways the same thing happens and we do it all again, and again, and again, hell, the heavens and earth could have been created, destroyed, and re-created and destroyed and re-created hundreds of times over on the celestial time clock by now, who knows how many times we have done this...
God Bless!
