Nobody Dies for a Lie

[Cow Poke]

In other words heaven is not a place, it's a mind set.

You are, once again, revealing your ignorance of the Bible.

[JimL]

You are, once again, revealing your ignorance of the Bible.

Haven't read it in a while, but the passage could be understood in either way. Thomas, which didn't make it into the bible said basically the same thing, if I remember that correctly. "Heaven is spread across the face of the earth, but men don't see it."

[Cow Poke]

Haven't read it in a while, but the passage could be understood in either way. Thomas, which didn't make it into the bible said basically the same thing, if I remember that correctly. "Heaven is spread across the face of the earth, but men don't see it."

Make at least a feeble attempt to answer Sparko's post, then I'll point out where you really got this mixed up.

[Cow Poke]

Thomas, which didn't make it into the bible...

Thanks, Jim, I needed a laugh this morning!

[Sparko]

Make at least a feeble attempt to answer Sparko's post, then I'll point out where you really got this mixed up.

^that.

[JimL]

Maybe you should go look for it. Reading the bible might do you some good.

I will wait here for you. Nobody help him. Jim can do it himself. He is a big boy.

Ask yourself why becoming like little children would be prerequisite of entering heaven?

[DesertBerean]

Ask yourself why becoming like little children would be prerequisite of entering heaven?

Oh, good heavens.

[lilpixieofterror]

I really have a problem with that since it's nowhere mentioned in the Bible. I think people hold to it for emotional reasons (not wanting to envision babies in hell). People are certainly awfully dogmatic about it for something nowhere mentioned in Scripture. Since I'm an annihilationist, I don't have a problem with holding to the idea that only those who accept Christ get eternal life, because I don't have to deal with the idea of babies being eternally tormented.

I think CP covered the scripture part, but I think the nature of God helps us here too. God is both just and merciful, it is in the interest of both justice and mercy for God to take into consideration the mental capacity and the knowledge of individuals into account when judgment comes.

[lilpixieofterror]

Haven't read it in a while, but the passage could be understood in either way. Thomas, which didn't make it into the bible said basically the same thing, if I remember that correctly. "Heaven is spread across the face of the earth, but men don't see it."

Thomas was written by the Gnostics and contained many crazy concepts, such as women becoming men to make it into heaven. If you want to go with the gnostic stuff, I like the one with the talking cross myself. That one is rather entertaining.

[lilpixieofterror]

Ask yourself why becoming like little children would be prerequisite of entering heaven?

[Tassman]

Dang, you actually got something right.

Getting the doctrine of the 'hypostatic union' right is not a problem. The trick is to explain how Jesus can be simultaneously fully God and fully Man. Because it is nonsense!

[Cow Poke]

Getting the doctrine of the 'hypostatic union' right is not a problem. The trick is to explain how Jesus can be simultaneously fully God and fully Man. Because it is nonsense!

Not at all difficult to explain, I do it all the time. What's difficult is for atheist to comprehend it.

[Cow Poke]

Oh, good heavens.

Well said!

[Sparko]

Ask yourself why becoming like little children would be prerequisite of entering heaven?

Still waiting... find your verse yet?

[JimL]

Wow, you really do live in a fantasy world don't you Lilpix. Having a concept of innocence, which btw, we adults do not lack, is not the same thing as being innocent, and little kids are not honest at all, and they are as gullible as you are, which is obviously very gullible.