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5 Expectations Of Heaven by winner01(m): 12:50am On Oct 11, 2015
"After this body is dead, my spirit will soar" - Max Lucado


NO MORE PAIN
The Bible says that someday we’ll have no more pain (Rev. 21:4), but I don’t think this is speaking about only physical pain. It seems that the ones we love the most are the ones we hurt the greatest and are often the ones who hurt us the most.
Someday all of that will pass away and be no more. Think about what Paul wrote: “ For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us ” (Rom. 8:18). Ponder that a bit: What we suffer in the present time will be unworthy to be compared with the glory that’s coming!

NO MORE SORROW
When Martha ran up to Jesus and gave Him a mild rebuke, saying, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died” (John 11:21), Jesus reassured her, “ Your brother will rise again” (John 11:23). Jesus conquered the grave and can boldly proclaim, “ I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die ” (John 11:25-26). Someday our spirits will soar after our bodies die because death’s not final–it is only the beginning of eternal life in Christ.

NO MORE TEARS
Apparently after leaving Timothy, Paul could still recall his tears, writing tenderly to Timothy, “As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy ” (2 Tim. 1:4).
When Paul had to leave the Ephesian elders, “there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him, being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again” (Acts 20:37-38). Even though Jesus wept (John 11:35), someday there will be no more tears.

NO MORE DEATH
After Jesus was raised from the dead, it was the death of death as we know it. Yes, we will still die and then have our judgment (Heb. 9:27), but our sins were judged at the cross; this is only the beginning of eternal life. When I give funerals and they lower the believer’s body in the casket into the ground, I say, “This is not burial ground but resurrection ground, for they’re not here; they’re with Christ,” and “ we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord ” (2 Cor. 5:cool.

NO MORE SIN
Christ put our sins away by His blood, and they are gone for good, for “ as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us ” (Psalm 103:12). By the way, north and south meet at the equator but east never meets west, so we’ll never meet up with our sins again. The Apostle John writes, “ Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life ” (Rev. 21:27).

CONCLUSION
Think about what Max Lucado said: “After this body is dead, my spirit will soar.” And he is so right. Someday God “will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away ” (Rev. 21:4), and that’s enough to make any spirit soar!

"My home is in heaven, I'm just travelling through this world" - Billy Graham

Article By Pastor Jack Wellman

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Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by Chizzled06(m): 2:16pm On Oct 11, 2015
What if a Christian is satisfied with living a good life in one lifetime here on earth and isn't interested in "eternity". Will God answer his /her prayer and allow them rest forever after they die?
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by winner01(m): 3:44pm On Oct 11, 2015
Chizzled06:
What if a Christian is satisfied with living a good life in one lifetime here on earth and isn't interested in "eternity". Will God answer his /her prayer and allow them rest forever after they die?
This world is governed by laws e.g Sow and reap, give and take and such.

I would ask you. Can i just be left alone, i hate school and its exams, i hate life and its hustle, i hate the fact that i cant live forever, I jus wanna be successful.
Sorry, it dosent work that way. Thats just the design.


Good and bad exists, and you're either here or there.
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by winner01(m): 8:11am On Nov 01, 2015
Someone brought us here, we didnt bring ourselves and so we have little or no control over the system. But by putting our hands in Gods hands, the One who has total control over the system, we are good to go.
No one can be left alone, it is either light or darkness, there is no midrib.

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Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by KingEbukasBlog(m): 10:20am On Nov 01, 2015
winner01:
This world is governed by laws e.g Sow and reap, give and take and such.

I would ask you. Can i just be left alone, i hate school and its exams, i hate life and its hustle, i hate the fact that i cant live forever, I jus wanna be successful.
Sorry, it dosent work that way. Thats just the design.


Good and bad exists, and you're either here or there.


Excellent response winner01. @Chizzled06 : Its either A or B - Heaven or Hell .

That awareness of time would be taken from us . We wont get bored or fed up ( human feature ) , its gona go on and on and on - a beautiful experience
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by Chizzled06(m): 6:12pm On Nov 01, 2015
You didn't exist for billions of years before you were born, you will cease to exist for billions of years after you die.

Enjoy your life while it lasts.

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Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by winner01(m): 5:26pm On Nov 02, 2015
Chizzled06:
You didn't exist for billions of years before you were born, you will cease to exist for billions of years after you die.

Enjoy your life while it lasts.
If anything, i think im enjoying my life to the fullest.

The iphone6 was not in existence few years ago and will cease to exist in some years time. i believe it was created for a reason, and i believe it didnt jumpout of nothing or an explosion. And that applies to all man made objects.

Lol, I believe God "knew you before you were born". I believe He put conscience in man. I believe you will exist after your physical death. You can however choose for yourself the kind of life you want.
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by winner01(m): 5:28pm On Nov 02, 2015
KingEbukasBlog:


Excellent response winner01. @Chizzled06 : Its either A or B - Heaven or Hell .

That awareness of time would be taken from us . We wont get bored or fed up ( human feature ) , its gona go on and on and on - a beautiful experience
Thanks bro, We shall be fit to enter in Jesus Name, Amen.

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Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by KingEbukasBlog(m): 5:33pm On Nov 02, 2015
winner01:
Thanks bro, We shall be fit to enter in Jesus Name, Amen.

U w bro

Amen smiley
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by Chizzled06(m): 8:36pm On Nov 02, 2015
winner01:
If anything, i think im enjoying my life to the fullest.

The iphone6 was not in existence few years ago and will cease to exist in some years time. i believe it was created for a reason, and i believe it didnt jumpout of nothing or an explosion. And that applies to all man made objects.

Lol, I believe God "knew you before you were born". I believe He put conscience in man. I believe you will exist after your physical death. You can however choose for yourself the kind of life you want.



"Conscience" or Intelligence is a relatively late arrival in the evolution of mankind.

Your 'soul', 'mind' and consciousness are all functions of one thing- your brain. Once all electrical activity ceases in your brain, that's it. Why do you think people with head trauma/ neurological or 'brain damage' injuries or illnesses seem 'souless'?

The continuous evolution of the human brain led to a sense of consciousness and awareness, followed by several relatively uniformed guesses about where we're from and what happens after death. One of which you currently believe in.
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by winner01(m): 10:31pm On Nov 02, 2015
Chizzled06:


"Conscience" or Intelligence is a relatively late arrival in the evolution of mankind.

Your 'soul', 'mind' and consciousness are all functions of one thing- your brain. Once all electrical activity ceases in your brain, that's it. Why do you think people with head trauma/ neurological or 'brain damage' injuries or illnesses seem 'souless'?

The continuous evolution of the human brain led to a sense of consciousness and awareness, followed by several relatively uniformed guesses about where we're from and what happens after death. One of which you currently believe in.
Hmmnn, he evolved. And the early apes which he evolved from came from nothing or an explosion. Okay.
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by Chizzled06(m): 5:28am On Nov 03, 2015
winner01:
Hmmnn, he evolved. And the early apes which he evolved from came from nothing or an explosion. Okay.

We all evolved. Get over it.

Your "coming from nothing" rhetoric is unwise because any way you choose to look at it, there will be a 'Nothing' at the start. "Everything that exists must have a creator" So your God must have one too. Who created him?

It's quite reasonable to conceive a benevolent creator at the root of the start of the universe, but your current ideas of the origin of mankind and what happens after death are ancient caucasian folklore. You are living someone else's fantasy.

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Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by KingEbukasBlog(m): 5:50am On Nov 03, 2015
Chizzled06:


"Conscience" or Intelligence is a relatively late arrival in the evolution of mankind.

Your 'soul', 'mind' and consciousness are all functions of one thing- your brain. Once all electrical activity ceases in your brain, that's it. Why do you think people with head trauma/ neurological or 'brain damage' injuries or illnesses seem 'souless'?

The continuous evolution of the human brain led to a sense of consciousness and awareness, followed by several relatively uniformed guesses about where we're from and what happens after death. One of which you currently believe in.

Emotions too arrived late right ? Mtcheew ! Do you know what a blueprint is ? What design plan was the brain following that it had to evolve these features ? Why did the brain evolve to get this features ? So it actually just brought up emotions and feelings own its own . What ever activities that go on in the brain is because it was designed to do so .

Do you know how hard scientists are trying to design humanoid robots to attain self-awareness or know how consciousness works . Do you know how difficult it is to develop artificial intelligence ? Just recently after so many years in robotics, latest inventions suggest that robots can now learn from their mistakes and even improve on their former output . Mind produces mind . But there is a point where it becomes an uncaused cause precluding infinite regress and that's God .

Admitting that nature is designed is not mythology its actually science (the study of nature ) . Deal with it God exists . Even some scientists like Hawkings hold this belief that humanity can be obliterated by robots . That's rebellion - an exhibition of free will . Because they believe that a major breakthrough in robotics could rise to any kind of robots having a mind of its own , making its own decisions on its own will and not adhering to any algorithmic solution pattern .

You as a human are exercising your free will . You are even being rebellious and trying to upstage God's glory as a creator and insinuating you came from nothing . Because you were designed to have a mind of your own - take your own decisions with or without reasoning , make your own choices . A far greater mind made us . I mean even robots in coming years will take up jobs - a newly developed mind producing something new

Everything is getting automated soon . The level of efficiency of robots keeps increasing because they were designed that way . Their intelligence didn't "evolve" , they are designed to get better when they repeatedly do a task . You are designed after creation by God to attain an certain level of intelligence . And this progress is designed to be passed on unto the next generation until God's plan for mankind is achieved.

Deal with it man , God exists grin smiley wink

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Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by winner01(m): 7:10am On Nov 03, 2015
Chizzled06:

Who created him?
Yeah "Everything that exists must have a creator", may not apply to the One who created time. You should focus more on probing your existence first. If you wanna believe that from nothing came everything, you can go ahead, its called freewill, You make your choice.
Chizzled06:


It's quite reasonable to conceive a benevolent creator at the root of the start of the universe, but your current ideas of the origin of mankind and what happens after death are ancient caucasian folklore. You are living someone else's fantasy.
I was not born into this "someone else's fantasy". But by grace, ever since i became a child of the living God, my life has shapened for the better. You should also taste and see that God is good.
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by Chizzled06(m): 7:18am On Nov 03, 2015
KingEbukasBlog:


Emotions too arrived late right ? Mtcheew ! Do you know what a blueprint is ? What design plan was the brain following that it had to evolve these features ? Why did the brain evolve to get this features ? So it actually just brought up emotions and feelings own its own . What ever activities that go on in the brain is because it was designed to do so .

Do you know how hard scientists are trying to design humanoid robots to attain self-awareness or know how consciousness works . Do you know how difficult it is to develop artificial intelligence ? Just recently after so many years in robotics, latest inventions suggest that robots can now learn from their mistakes and even improve on their former output . Mind produces mind . But there is a point where it becomes an uncaused cause precludes infinite regress and that's God .

Admitting that nature is designed is not mythology its actually science (the study of nature ) . Deal with it God exists . Even some scientists like Hawkings hold this belief that humanity can be obliterated by robots . That's rebellion - an exhibition of free will . Because they believe that a major breakthrough in robotics could rise to any kind of robots having a mind of its own , making its own decisions on its own will and not adhering to any algorithmic solution pattern .

You as a human are exercising your free will . You are even being rebellious and trying to upstage God's glory as a creator and insinuating you came from nothing . Because you were designed to have a mind of your own - take your own decisions with or without reasoning , make your own choices . A far greater mind made us . I mean even robots in coming years will take up jobs - a newly developed mind producing something new

Everything is getting automated soon . The level of efficiency of robots keeps increasing because they were designed that way . Their intelligence didn't "evolve" , they are designed to get better when they repeatedly do a task . You are designed after creation by God to attain an certain level of intelligence . And this progress is designed to be passed on unto the next generation until God's plan for mankind is achieved.

Deal with it man , God exists grin smiley wink

Man created the Gods. Deal with it
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by Chizzled06(m): 7:23am On Nov 03, 2015
winner01:
Yeah "Everything that exists must have a creator", may not apply to the One who created time. You should focus more on probing your existence first. If you wanna believe that from nothing came everything, you can go ahead, its called freewill, You make your choice.

I was not born into this "someone else's fantasy". But by grace, ever since i became a child of the living God, my life has shapened for the better. You should also taste and see that God is good.

If you understood that the concept of time is just an illusion, you won't talk about someone "creating" time.

I never asked if you were born into it. However it found you, you've been successfully indoctrinated and are currently living in delusion.
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by winner01(m): 7:36am On Nov 03, 2015
Chizzled06:


If you understood that the concept of time is just an illusion, you won't talk about someone "creating" time.

I never asked if you were born into it. However it found you, you've been successfully indoctrinated and are currently living in delusion.
You can as well say space is an illusion, we live in these dimensions mr.

Salvation is not indoctrination, salvation is what you need. Why not humble yourself before God and ask Him to still your anxious heart towards rebellion.
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by Chizzled06(m): 7:48am On Nov 03, 2015
winner01:
You can as well say space is an illusion, we live in these dimensions mr.

Salvation is not indoctrination, salvation is what you need. Why not humble yourself before God and ask Him to still your anxious heart towards rebellion.

Space and time is one and the same. The space-time fabric of the universe means the concept of "time" is a function of where you are.

Salvation from what to what? From logical and rational reasoning to blindly believing doctrines that contradict established facts?

I was born into your religion and held similar arrogant beliefs in a man-like God. I only broke free from the mental shackles after I humbled myself to accept the undisputable laws of nature, as revealed to us by science.
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by KingEbukasBlog(m): 9:26pm On Nov 03, 2015
Chizzled06:


If you understood that the concept of time is just an illusion, you won't talk about someone "creating" time.

I never asked if you were born into it. However it found you, you've been successfully indoctrinated and are currently living in delusion.

Stop using this ludicrous concept of time being an illusion to deny the existence of a creator . You cannot even evidently defend your stance .

Pfft

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Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by Chizzled06(m): 11:23pm On Nov 03, 2015
KingEbukasBlog:


Stop using this ludicrous concept of time being an illusion to deny the existence of a creator . You cannot even evidently defend your stance .

Pfft





I've refused to engage you because you're an epitome of the consequence of the malleability of the human brain.

You talk a lot and say nothing in the process, you laugh to yourself at your own snide remarks in attempts to belittle others, while inadvertently showcasing the fragility and sensitivity of your current beliefs.

Ignorance, coupled with arrogance makes for a toxic, irrational, unitelligible individual.

But then again, if you could reason with religious people, there wouldn't be any religious people.
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by KingEbukasBlog(m): 11:33pm On Nov 03, 2015
Chizzled06:



I've refused to engage you because you're an epitome of the consequence of the malleability of the human brain.

You talk a lot and say nothing in the process, you laugh to yourself at your own snide remarks in attempts to belittle others, while inadvertently showcasing the fragility and sensitivity of your current beliefs.

Ignorance, coupled with arrogance makes for a toxic, irrational, unitelligible individual.

But then again, if you could reason with religious people, there wouldn't be any religious people.

You couldn't refute my earlier post and you call me unintelligible? You ignorant fodder

you sound pained .. really pained

Isn't it time to consult your ancestors for guidance

This one existed close to 11 million years ago , he knows more about the earth than you do

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Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by Chizzled06(m): 11:44pm On Nov 03, 2015
KingEbukasBlog:


You couldn't refute my earlier post and you call me unintelligible? You ignorant fodder

you sound pained .. really pained

Isn't it time to consult your ancestors for guidance

This one existed close to 11 million years ago , he knows more about the earth than you do



*Our ancestor.

You can't consult a dead being for 'guidance' because it is dead, it has ceased to exist.

Fossils that existed that long ago would know a few things about their ecology during that time, but not a lot more. Their brains were nowhere as complex as living hominids, so it's unreasonable to think they'd have a better understanding of earth than we currently do.
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by KingEbukasBlog(m): 11:55pm On Nov 03, 2015
Chizzled06:


*Our ancestor.

You can't consult a dead being for 'guidance' because it is dead, it has ceased to exist.

Fossils that existed that long ago would know a few things about their ecology during that time, but not a lot more. Their brains were nowhere as complex as living hominids, so it's unreasonable to think they'd have a better understanding of earth than we currently do.


*Your ancestor

Look at him talk of a complex brain ... lmao

You really need to study A.I to indubitably understand how intelligence and reasoning work - you definitely lack these features
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by KingEbukasBlog(m): 11:56pm On Nov 03, 2015
@Chizzled06 - that comment was a joke ... sorry I forgot to use the laughter smiley sad
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by KingEbukasBlog(m): 12:00am On Nov 04, 2015
Chizzled06:

Salvation from what to what? From logical and rational reasoning to blindly believing doctrines that contradict established facts?

Facts ? Which one? that life came from the non living or that it evolved from a single cell .

Can you share what you are smoking ?

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Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by dalaman: 12:18am On Nov 04, 2015
KingEbukasBlog:


Facts ? Which one? that life came from the non living or that it evolved from a single cell .

Can you share what you are smoking ?

You believe human life was created by an elusive God from sand which is also a non living thing but you somehow feel you are in a better position to mock people who also believe the same trash as you do.
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by KingEbukasBlog(m): 12:21am On Nov 04, 2015
dalaman:


You believe human life was created by an elusive God from sand which is also a non living thing but you somehow feel you are in a better position to mock people who also believe the same trash as you do.

I've always insisted that life could only come from forth from the non-living only through the aid of the supernatural . Another day you'll still repeat this same comment
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by dalaman: 12:28am On Nov 04, 2015
KingEbukasBlog:


I've always insisted that life could only come from forth from the non-living only through the aid of the supernatural . Another day you'll still repeat this same comment

You have always been insisting that some mythical idea and fantasy of some ancient Jewish men must be true. Show me any supernatural force bringing forth life from non life. Just provide that evidence already. Even the myth you were indoctrinated with says the God idea they imagined created man from sand which is non living.
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by KingEbukasBlog(m): 12:32am On Nov 04, 2015
dalaman:


You have always been insisting that some mythical idea and fantasy of some ancient Jewish men must be true. Show me any supernatural force bringing forth life from non life. Just provide that evidence already. Even the myth you were indoctrinated with says the God idea they imagined created man from sand which is non living.

Lmao ... lwkmd

Nwanne ... lets play a game ... show me how life came from the non living on its own will without the aid of the supernatural cheesy . If you can evidently show that life came from the non living without the supernatural then I'm the delusional one cool

Its simple as ABC kiss
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by dalaman: 12:37am On Nov 04, 2015
KingEbukasBlog:


Lmao ... lwkmd

Nwanne ... lets play a game ... show me how life came from the non living on its own will without the aid of the supernatural cheesy . If you can evidently show that life came from the non living without the supernatural then I'm the delusional one cool

Its simple as ABC kiss

I don't know how life came about and neither do you that is why you can not provide any evidence for it apart from baseless claims and appeal to the unknown. I have never made any claims about knowing how life came about it one way or the other. You just happen to believe in what some people thought about and stated without any evidence, ideas that have been shown to be false , you are just living their own fantasies.
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by KingEbukasBlog(m): 12:46am On Nov 04, 2015
dalaman:


I don't know how life came about

You don't know then shut the fukk up

Thanks smiley
Re: 5 Expectations Of Heaven by dalaman: 12:58am On Nov 04, 2015
KingEbukasBlog:


You don't know then shut the fukk up

Thanks smiley

I might not know what 23456 x 261514 is, but I know it can never be 25. I don't know how life came about but the mythical and creation account which is nothing but trash that was written in the bible is not how the world or the universe we live in came about.

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