I am really struggling to answer this question. It can't be just be about free will. Natural disasters, accidents and diseases are the cause of many deaths each day. Dying without having a choice sounds like the opposite of free will to me.
“For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV
I am really struggling to answer this question. It can't be just be about free will. Natural disasters, accidents and diseases are the cause of many deaths each day. Dying without having a choice sounds like the opposite of free will to me.
No way!!! Eternity worshipping God? How horrible!!!I don't think that's a good enough answer. We don't know for absolute certain what happens when we die. And if hell exists then that's eternal punishment, not glory. And the way heaven is often portrayed makes it seem like we lose who we are and just want to worship God.
No way!!! Eternity worshipping God? How horrible!!!
Now, maybe we can have an actual Christ-centered conversation.
So? It's still worshipping.What I mean is, no one ever specifies what such worship actually entails. It's all vague whenever I hear it talked about.
I am really struggling to answer this question. It can't be just be about free will. Natural disasters, accidents and diseases are the cause of many deaths each day. Dying without having a choice sounds like the opposite of free will to me.
It goes along with the scripture: "It rains on the just and the unjust". Negative events happen unfortunately; but it is what we do about it that is important.I am really struggling to answer this question. It can't be just be about free will. Natural disasters, accidents and diseases are the cause of many deaths each day. Dying without having a choice sounds like the opposite of free will to me.
I am really struggling to answer this question. It can't be just be about free will. Natural disasters, accidents and diseases are the cause of many deaths each day. Dying without having a choice sounds like the opposite of free will to me.
I don't think that's a good enough answer. We don't know for absolute certain what happens when we die. And if hell exists then that's eternal punishment, not glory. And the way heaven is often portrayed makes it seem like we lose who we are and just want to worship God.
Stuff just happens. Life doesn't seem to favor anyone. Good and bad things happen to everyone, good or bad. It's just life.
I am really struggling to answer this question. It can't be just be about free will. Natural disasters, accidents and diseases are the cause of many deaths each day. Dying without having a choice sounds like the opposite of free will to me.
When is dying ever a choice?
When the governor says, "All you have to do is make one little sacrifice to the dead Caesars, and I'll let you go free and live your life. But if you refuse to make a sacrifice to the dead Caesars, I must execute you."
Even if you choose to go free and live life you still end up dying. It's kind of like being born. No one really had a choice in that either.
I am really struggling to answer this question. It can't be just be about free will. Natural disasters, accidents and diseases are the cause of many deaths each day. Dying without having a choice sounds like the opposite of free will to me.
If suffering didn't exist it would be like living in heaven, but this isn't heaven it's a fallen world and "most" suffering is caused by the devil and his minions, not God. But us Christians have a way to get through these sufferings, by having a relationship with Jesus who eases our way through life through Him.