When we die and get to heaven, how old would we be? Do we become young again? Do kids who die become adults?
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by rkbo:
I Jn 3:2
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
(KJV)
This could mean spiritual and physical.</font>
As I have pondered this question these past days (Mar. 20, 2004), I have come to an answer, and it is this. God will take that three year old child, or one month old or 80 years old and translate that saved soul and apply the "hurt" of the lake of fire during the Last Week of the Judgment Seat to remove any "dross." Then through "outer darkness" that follows, that has no fire about it, none whatsoever, which runs concurrently with and during the millennium, outside the light of reigning with Christ, the soul and spirit of that child will be made to be exactly what God wants him to be as a pillar in the New City. That is the answer. I just know it.
And how God does it is all up to Him (not up to us) in our resurrected bodies. God only states that He will do it and make us pillars, giving even a three year old the status of being a pillar in the New City by maturing that soul of that child unto sonship as if age is of no distinction, consideration, or consequence in the New City. There is not even marriage in the new city. My faith has been tested by this question and strengthened by this answer. So if we step back for moment, let us imagine how God might actually do this. He will let that child grow, mature, spiritually "age", and develop till he or she reaches that pinnacle of pillarship perfected for the new city. God needs no more than a thousand years to accomplish this.
That may entail the child aging in addition to maturing in a newly clothed spiritually body that does not change at all, yet the soul in that spiritual body does change unto perfection. The same goes for an eighty-year old in which God will remove any remnant of oldness. Those wise in years, age will have no bearing in a resurrected body, and it is as if that elderly person is young in spirit forever. How God does this confounds the mind.
In terms of the age of accountability, it does exist, for the consciousness of the child has not been reached yet. God is fair and just. God will even let some children go because He knew they would never come to Him. We should not even rule out this possibility since God has foreknowledge and is all-knowing and all-seeing. I believe His ways are so vast that this is about the best way to explain it in totality.
TRB said:As I have pondered this question these past days (Mar. 20, 2004), I have come to an answer, and it is this. God will take that three year old child, or one month old or 80 years old and translate that saved soul and apply the "hurt" of the lake of fire during the Last Week of the Judgment Seat to remove any "dross." Then through "outer darkness" that follows, that has no fire about it, none whatsoever, which runs concurrently with and during the millennium, outside the light of reigning with Christ, the soul and spirit of that child will be made to be exactly what God wants him to be as a pillar in the New City. That is the answer. I just know it.
And how God does it is all up to Him (not up to us) in our resurrected bodies. God only states that He will do it and make us pillars, giving even a three year old the status of being a pillar in the New City by maturing that soul of that child unto sonship as if age is of no distinction, consideration, or consequence in the New City. There is not even marriage in the new city. My faith has been tested by this question and strengthened by this answer. So if we step back for moment, let us imagine how God might actually do this. He will let that child grow, mature, spiritually "age", and develop till he or she reaches that pinnacle of pillarship perfected for the new city. God needs no more than a thousand years to accomplish this.
That may entail the child aging in addition to maturing in a newly clothed spiritually body that does not change at all, yet the soul in that spiritual body does change unto perfection. The same goes for an eighty-year old in which God will remove any remnant of oldness. Those wise in years, age will have no bearing in a resurrected body, and it is as if that elderly person is young in spirit forever. How God does this confounds the mind.
In terms of the age of accountability, it does exist, for the consciousness of the child has not been reached yet. God is fair and just. God will even let some children go because He knew they would never come to Him. We should not even rule out this possibility since God has foreknowledge and is all-knowing and all-seeing. I believe His ways are so vast that this is about the best way to explain it in totality.
Wait...the new Earth is the Millenium.And they say though the lamb and lion will be together in the millennium, the Word of God clearly has no mention of animals in the new earth.