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Do we really go to Heaven when we die?

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It is the hope that remains. Not to those that think that they have it already but to those who have never been defiled by a woman, as the time is right and born through the word as children to enter heaven.

That makes absolutely no sense.
 
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Ummmm, no. To be absent from the body, as Paul is saying it, is to be physically dead.
 
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Acts 1:6 "Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

I long for this day.
 
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But who were these 2 men, it says that no one has ever gone in to heaven except Jesus.. This is obviously an inconsistency?

An inconsistency in our understanding perhaps. If it means what some seem to think it means, how then do you explain Enoch?
 
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Interesting, "Search4". First you ask a question like you're really disturbed about what your father told you, then you quote all sorts of scripture demonstrating your 'knowledge'. But you tell me the need to accept Jesus in Chapter 3 of John eludes you.

How curious.

Well, here's another quote of Jesus you won't find or understand:

For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
 
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From what I understand its a lesson about Talents, using the talents you have to gain more.. And to squander those talents would be a sin in itself, though this parable from where you get this verse is how banking and investments even work today. You have 100 dollars and invest it wisely you get 200 back.. You have 50 dollars and go and bury it, you still have 50 dollars.. In reference to the weeping and gnashing of teeth I believe that is reference to those who will walk mortal on Earth while the Plagues of the end times begin, and the suffering will be likened to that.
 
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