My entire life growing up, I was lead to believe that you go to Heaven when you die if you believe and are saved. Whatever spin and additions to that you may require, that's the gist of the Christian faith.
I was recently at a funeral for a loved one, and the pastor that spoke gave a very different account. My uncle died after a long battle with cancer, and was quite religious. This man, his pastor, shocked me when he said that my uncle was not in Heaven with Christ. To the point where I almost walked out...
Thinking about it after the fact, it really causes concern for something that I have held belief in my entire life. The Bible does not say we go to Heaven when we die.
Ecc. 9:5
For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.
So all of that "he's in a better place" crap is just garbage?
Discuss.
2007-04-26
04:27:26
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