For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. - Isaiah 66:2
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Indeed both were martyred by heretics for refusing to denounce their Christianity! My point precisely.
You were the one to suggest I practice heresy and defect to become Anglican.
Jesus Christ had the audacity to say...
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - John 14:6
I would not want to try eternity without him! If the Bible has it right, then the three-time heavyweight boxing champion is now coping with something far, far worse than Parkinson's disease.
Rockytopva states the position of Christians simply.
More opinion.
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.- James 4:14
I tell you what is not opinion.. And that is we are in the direct center of eternity, and that our time is just a little time in comparison...
Natural E/c2 - Our mass will return back into the earth from which it was created
Intellectual E/c2- Our intelligence will vanish away just moments after death
Spiritual E/c2 - And who knows what will become of our spirit?
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. - 2 Peter 3:10
The natural E/c2 (mass) is soon going to disassociate back to the plasma from which it was created. If the time of this universe ends up to be 15 billion years, even that is just a vapor in the wind...
There was a Pentecostal preacher who had a vision of a man in hell who was grabbing people by the hair, pulling them up and examining them, and then thrusting them back into the hell fire. Upon awakening the preacher prayed for the interpretation of the dream. The interpretation was that the man was looking for the preacher who lied to him! I would not want to be that liar in hell!
So people will have hair in hell? Fire-resistant hair?
I don't blame educated, scientifically-minded people for refusing to believe in this kind of axial-age mythology when it is presented as a literal, physical reality instead of being understood as an analogy.
Judging is not our job or where he is or not, it is simply the Will, Grace, and Righteous Judgment of the Lord of where he is now. [emoji169][emoji119][emoji72][emoji780]
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Warning every man...
26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: - Colossians 1
17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul. - Ezekiel 3
Uh....yep!!!!You mean an eternity of punishment in hell...the place God created specifically for the souls of people who's crime was not believing.