blogger1.0:
Sometimes i just sit down and think about a world without end and i just feel so weak from within. I mean, time just keeps going nonstop, no end, you never get to see a cast which indicates that a movie has ended, it goes on and on and on. Oh God am feeling sick just typing this already.
Your thougts guys

SNCOQ3:


Secondly, you're confusing eternity for the word 'forever' or 'everlasting'; This words are used interchangeably with eternity but they're technically far apart. Let me explain: 'Forever' and 'Everlasting' simply means[b] time[/b] without end. 'beginning', 'now', 'after', 'present','future', 'ending' are functions of time. But Eternity means a state of timelessness -a condition where time does not exist. Eternal life is God kind of life but men are creatures of time - we think and live in sequence so its impossible to imagine eternity... I can only offer a very poor allusion to it but i'll try anyway:

to catch a glimpes of Eternity (lets say you're 25) is like having a vision of an angel smile and wave at you for just a second, but when you turn around, you find yourself in a very advanced society, you walk up to a guy, only to be told you look like the dude he read in a book who got missing 1000 years ago. For you: it was only a second. no ageing- no change. For an observer: you're 1025 years old with many generations gone by.

When Moses asked God for His name, God responded: IAM WHO IAM (meaning: My name is Eternity - you're a creature of time, you can only move from the present to the future but for Me: time begins and ends in Me)

God lives in the realm Eternity...Timelesness. And with Him, their is fullness of JOY!

Annie.salis:


aint u sure of making heaven?

SNCOQ3:

No insult intended but i think if you're feeling sick about the thought of eternity it could be because you're actually living a miserable life and unfortunately, you're using your despondent condition to skew the idea of eternity. Step outside your bunk, look around you, their are others living a happy life - like a newly married couple who wish the bliss will continue forever.

Secondly, you're confusing eternity for the word 'forever' or 'everlasting'; This words are used interchangeably with eternity but they're technically far apart. Let me explain: 'Forever' and 'Everlasting' simply means[b] time[/b] without end. 'beginning', 'now', 'after', 'present','future', 'ending' are functions of time. But Eternity means a state of timelessness -a condition where time does not exist. Eternal life is God kind of life but men are creatures of time - we think and live in sequence so its impossible to imagine eternity... I can only offer a very poor allusion to it but i'll try anyway:

to catch a glimpes of Eternity (lets say you're 25) is like having a vision of an angel smile and wave at you for just a second, but when you turn around, you find yourself in a very advanced society, you walk up to a guy, only to be told you look like the dude he read in a book who got missing 1000 years ago. For you: it was only a second. no ageing- no change. For an observer: you're 1025 years old with many generations gone by.

When Moses asked God for His name, God responded: IAM WHO IAM (meaning: My name is Eternity - you're a creature of time, you can only move from the present to the future but for Me: time begins and ends in Me)

God lives in the realm Eternity...Timelesness. And with Him, their is fullness of JOY!

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And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
--Revelation 21:3-4

Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?" God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
-- Exodus 3:14-15

blogger1.0:

A very thrilling post you have up there.
But if you weren't lazy enuf to go through the whole thread, you would have read where a poster said the same above bolded to me.

The fact that i am rational and think far and wide doesn't make me less of a happy man does it?

akigbemaru:
You need to do a reality check on yourself my sister, because you are so gullible. Check yourself again and see how you have been brain-washed. If your Jesus was about taking everybody to heaven, why not merging all the Christians of the world together?
Why is that there is disparity? First, iv tried much here 2be diplomatic without any form of insolence so i crave ur indulgence and also implore u 2carry ths consciousnes too cus i see ths as an interactiv platform where views and ideas ar share wit all bein entitled 2his opinion. D reality check u suggestd 4me here was rather unreasonabl and irrelevant, cus in d real sense& truth to tell, U r d one who nids that reality check, bt enough of dat and nw 2 d subject matter. Wat do u mean by mergin xtians and wat disparity ar u tokin abt?. I wish u cud be mor explicit bt in anycase, i clarified ths question earlier wen i stated dat satan and his cohorts ar all out 2fight d body of xst, whch is christianity, d church. And they ve so strategised their plans by causing disparity among them and other negativ issues. Al negative thngs u see happenin in d christiandon ar vices of devil, his weapon 2fight God's chldren frm going 2heaven. And as i stated earlier, d bibl says" d devil moves tho and fro lukin 4who 2devour" and d bible admonishes dat we shud nt be ignorant of his devices. Bt d devil only takes hold of weak and feebl xtians 2achiev their goal. Its only wen u give in that they take advantage of u. So my dear, Jesus is not d one causin any disparity, bt its satan thru men who hav given him d access. Ths is true and real and i pray u come 2ths knowlege soon.

Gee123.:
PLS NOTE:
1. Christianity is not a Religion. It simply means living the life of Christ.
2. Eternity is sure and Heaven and Hell are the two side of it.
3. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. No one will get 2 Heaven by surprise or accident.
4. GOD is not going 2 roast his creatures in Hell, its a matter of ur choice. "...I Have set b4 u, Life and death, Light and darkness. choose u this day whom u'll follow but i'll advice u choice Life..." what u choose u get.
5. Remember each day of ur life here no earth u're writting the script of ur eternity by ur actions, words etc.

Don't let the Devil lie 2 u by telling u that eternity is not real. Its a lie from the pit of hell. Choose this day whom u'll serve and Jesus is the only way 2 God the Father. And He alone has the power to save. My dear make ur decision b4 its 2 late. Your Life here no earth is just 2 prepare u 4 eternity. Real life starts in eternity. God Bless.

Vicmareal: @cyrex. Do not b carried away by VAIN ARGUMENT, for this reason God will punish the children of disobedience. Ephesians 5:6. As it was in d tym of Noah, it is today. We didnt cme by our consent, we will nt depart by our consent. We blong 2 God en shall account 4 wot we say no matter how convincin. If evil exists en human sacrifices re real, then u can't deny D place of Righteousnes en Eternal judgement

true2god: Jesus quoted the torah on the word of God to Moses in Matthew 22;32 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jabob. He is not the God of the dead but of the living'. Remember that all these pple had died long before the time of Moses. And yet God affirmed in his word that he is their God and dat they are living. And let not forget when David was mourning the death of one of his sons, he said his son cannot come back to him and that he is the one that will stil go and meet him (2 samuel 12: 22 to 23). Wat about Jesus' own word to the pharisees: 'your father abraham saw my days and was happy'. Yet Abraham died hundreds of yrs before Jesus came to the physical earth. Hw did he see Jesus' days if not in the spirit realm since both of them did not share the same earthly period. On the mount of tranfiguration the spirits of Moses and Elijah appeared to Jesus in the bible. All these facts are clear evidence of life after death and the continuation of life beyond the physical realm. All major religions and our african tradition attest to this fact but in a slightly different dimension. We need to understand that if life ends in this present world den the activities of money ritualist, hired killers, lootin politicians, serial murderers, armed robbers, occultist and the rest will be justifies as means of survival in this present world. Jesus asked: wat does it profit a man if he gained the whole world and lose his lose or wat shall a man give for the exchange of his soul. That means that human soul can be lost and human soul is more valuable than the entire universe. If human soul or spirit exist only in this physical world that means that christ was wrong in his statement. I always choose to use the word of christ on immortality because he is the only one in the bible that spoke volume about soul and immortality and he was before the beginning of the world system and order. In order word his word is more weighty on this topic.

traeces: Well I used to think like most people here until I began to experience the reality God is when I began to hear his voice, see his acts in response to my petitions, experience his wondrous glory & touch & generally enjoy his presence. Then I understood what the psalmist meant when he wrote in Ps 84:10 "For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness" Friends, what God has prepared for those who love him beats the Imagination & you'd better be preparing for it.

cyrexx:

evil spirits are not born like human spirits, you know.

besides can you define a spirit?

blogger1.0:

A very thrilling post you have up there.
But if you weren't lazy enuf to go through the whole thread, you would have read where a poster said the same above bolded to me.
The fact that i am rational and think far and wide doesn't make me less of a happy man does it?

illicit:
Crap!
why shd u go n enjoy all dis in a place u aint even sure exists after u died in a plane crash here and ur God cant or wont help u cos he didnt cause it.

akagaba: Iv neva seen such senseles& irelevant tok in my life. Ar u ok? If u ar sleepin, pls wake up.

akagaba: Iv neva seen such senseles& irelevant tok in my life. Ar u ok? If u ar sleepin, pls wake up.

nybol:
Unfortunately u cant have dat wish.
God didnt create you to just live your life & vanish, only things like trees, animals, stones, houses etc have no souls. You do have a soul & you will exist forever.
My Advice; make haste to secure your eternity now, Jesus awaits you.

true2god: This is a typical Jevoha's witness standard response to the issue of immotality pass down to all of them at ther kingdom halls. Its a regular respone and not new.the fact remains dat the spirit survivees death even after the body is buried (pls read concerning the death of abraham:Gen 15:15, 25:8 and Isaac: Gen 35:29 and Jacob: Gen 49:29,33 and Aaron: Num 20:24 and Moses: Num 27:13, Deut 32:50 and Josiah: 2kings 22:20. The key statement in all these verses is 'gathered unto his pple' or ancestors. And take time to read 1 samuel 28:13 to 14 on the permision God gave the for apperance of the spirit of samuel to saul to pass a message acros. Pls dis is not necromancy or divination but God permiting this occurence.. I lost someone close to me not quiet long and this person had appeared thru dreams to pass messages across. My broda the spirit surely survives after death and dats wat knw in our culture as the spirit of our ancestors.

Ishsoph: I really do not knw how to begin to help u cos ur deeply ingrained beleif has little or no root in the bible and as such ur fear is unfounded. That said, let me try to reason wit u. 1. In d begining God creatd man frm d dust of d ground nd d blew into his nostrils d breath of life nd he became a living soul(Gen. 2:7). Note that d man became a living soul nd not that a soul came to reside in him, hence the warning in Ezekiel 18:20 that a soul that sineth shall die as against d popular belief that d soul is immortal. 2. Eccl. 9:5&10 admonished that watever we can do nw that is worthwhile that we shuld do it while stil alive cos there is no form of life in the grave whr we are going. 3. When man dies he has paid 4 his sin(Rom.6:23). Its inconceivable that he shuld be raised back to life to suffer 4 d same sin. Hence the bible says he who has died has been acquited of hs sin(Rom.6:7). So there is nothing like hell fire as being propagatd today. Infacts that teaching dshonors God because it paints him as being cruel amongst other things. Again one might ask, y did d bible say that after death comes judgment? Jesus pointed out that d judgement of this world hav started(John.12:31) having com to show us the way. So whtever we are doing nw after having shown d way judges us. Its as if we ar nw in placed in judgement whl we watch as our conduct turns out we can deduce to in our mind wether we are fairing good in d judgement or not. Ther4, the judgement ends whenever we breath our last. Its just like someone that has a legal case that has been taking him to court over the yrs, he looks 4ward to having hs judgement whch is the end of court appearances. So is d judgement that follows the dead. Such judgement is witout injustice, infact its d fairest of judgement cos b4 dat time d individual shud hav knw hs stance wit God. If he is a sinner he knws, if he is a righteous person he nd his God knw. 5. Talking abt eternal life being boring, i understand ur fears. But y do u feel bad whn someone u love dies? The simple ans. is that God created in us d desire to live witout death frm d begining.(havin some trouble finding d quotation in Eccl.). We are beset wit such fear nd deep concern because we first tasted life of misery. Hav u been frustratd cos of not reaching some xpectations u set 4 urself due to ur limitation? Be assured u'll reach it nd even xceed it in God's kingdom when His wil shall be done on earth(Math. 6:9, 10). Yes mankind wil leave on earth nd not heaven wit some spirit bodies as theorised by theologians.(Psalms 37:29). Think of various acheivement of man nw even wit their imperfect mind, compare it wit much the aboundant acheivement that they'l be blessed wit in a perfect memory that wil not not be shortened by the brevity of our lives as it is 2day. My brother there many researches to engage in esp. d things that struct us wit mistry 2day whn we'll d grand privildge of unravling these by ourselves nd laugh at the folly of being kept in d dark by imperfection brought abt by sin. That same quotation am looking for also says that mankind cannot knw all that God has made from d start to d finish. U'll live forever trying to knw all these facinating things witout finish. Wht abt bad people causing us fear nd feelings of insecure? They wil be no more cos they'v paid 4 their sin wit death(Psalms:37:9, 10). In conclusion, just do ur utmost to maintain a healthy relationship God nw so that u'll enjoy all these wonderful things whn the memory of this present life wil gradually effaced and we get adjusted to the life then nd enjoy it to d fullest. If u want further clearifications, email me at mikeogele@yahoo.com.

akigbemaru: Africans when would you start thinking with the head not with the cap of /d/I/c/k/ and reclaim your spot in the comity of world discourse?
What ever white does is the best and nothing besides that is pure.
You come to this life solo and God is there is one wants us to live it yolo (you only live once) and forget about your damn eternity.

Religions were built on false pretense just to start with, there was nothing called Jesus, he was just a surreal and fairy tale creature that can only exist in utopian world.
His stories started just like Beowolf and cinderella, despite they are fictions after repeated and reedited through generations transformed to real events.
God can't not judge another, he or she knows that this world was created partially. Then since world was created on a vicious circle, the victors will always rule!

Paradoxically, the countries that revene God most are always the purest in the world. The question is, if GOD was deliberately put these countries at disadvantage?
God favors critical thinking. That's why countries in western world will always be prosper. They are not waiting on God before they eat,
before they marry, before they send kids to school.
God knows the truth, for nothing revealing to anybody his or her plans for us. If judging by current scenario, I would say heaven will boil if there is eternity, because we all have different orientations and perspectives about life and just for GOd to lump us together in heaven will do no justice.

mecussey: This is what keeps my faith straight. I am very sure that this God that created sex and made big nyash and breast for us, will surely know what is good for eternity.

truthislight:

liar!

That was satan's action, that is why saul have to leave Israel to edor to visit the witch.

This witches were ALL driven away from israel on God's command.

Are you saying that the instruction that God gave to saul when saul was a faithful king that God later turned and ask him to go to the witches when saul was unfaithful?

Will God ask saul to go to A Witch he had ask him to kill and chase away from israel at a period of his live when he has rejected soul and samuel refuse seeing saul till his death?

If samuel refused seeing saul in person when he was alive keeping with God's will, are you saying that the prophet samuel will then disobeyed his God at death to speak to soul?

All that drama is the same drama that satan uses in deceiving you and your type and others like you in ancestor worship and immortality of the soul.

That means our 14th grand parent knew what the bible teach in ancestor worship?

true2god: No thanks to u for interpretin the bible based on ur premonition and programmed doctrine. I hav my bible with me, read thru 1 samuel 28: 12-23. Let me read verse 16 for u frm good news bible: Samuel answerd, '' why have u disturbed me? Why do u make me come back?'. Take time to read the entire passage. Note that the passage was mentionin the names of samuel in the affirmative. No part of the passage called samuel an evil sprirt conjured by a witch to giv saul a message. The passage repeatedly qouted samuel as sayin that God had finally left saul and israel. This scenario might be difficult for u to grasp\believe but dats the fact. the bible said that saul perceived it was samuel. The bible did not say 'saul thought it was samuel'. Saul perceived it was samuel, dats wat the bibble says. I am not at this juncture an advocate of ancesoral worshiip because the bible caled it idolatery and must be shunned at all cost. Saul knew God had left him hence he was desperate and consulted a medium for spiritual assistance. He got wat he wanted frm the wrong source, but santioned by the almighty, to consolidate the earlier information given to him dat he had lost the kingdom. Whether u want to belief on the survival of human spirit after death or not is immaterial cos the spirit survives after physical death. Remember that Jesus quoted the Torah concerning the message God gave moses at the burning bush; ' i am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac nd the God of Jacob' and went on to say ' God is not the God of the dead but of the living' ( Matthew 22:32). Remeber that all these pple had died long before the time of moses, yet God said they are livin and that he is their God. Let the bible guide ur argument and stp foolishly callin ur fellow a liar without substantial proof. All wat im sayin are in the bible unless u choose to ignore wat is wriiten therein. God night, anyi ga ahukwa echi. Ke emesia