It's here, if you really want it. For anybody, not just who you think. That's the problem, we are Still selective as to who should be saved.
Peace and Love
2006-09-06 04:37:05 · 12 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Interesting point.
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2006-09-07 05:25:03 · answer #1 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christ's return is not something we made up in desperation, but something that has been foretold will happen. Read Acts 1:11. After Jesus ascended to heaven, angels appeared and told the believers: "This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." That's pretty clear on what will happen!
Also, see 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18: "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words."
See that last line? God knew we would need this prophecy as an encouragement. Why? Because this present world is anything but perfect. I do not and cannot think of this present world as heaven on earth, not with all the sin and the results of it.
More than that, He knows we'd rather be where He is. I think Christians get homesick sometimes for heaven, our real home. Especially because here, we are ambassadors for Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:20), and are likely to be persecuted or at least made fun of for following Him.
I agree, however, that the gift of eternal, abundant life with Christ is for anyone. I don't know of ANY Christians who are selective as to who should be saved. You are giving us a bad rap on that, I think.
2006-09-06 11:54:35 · answer #2 · answered by gburgmommy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no third coming,per se, the First was his birth, the second is when He (Christ) comes again, in the clouds...The "third" (if you want to call it that) is when he comes to earth again to have the "new heaven and the new earth". The first happened two thousand years ago, the second has not happened yet....the third will be after the second and after the 7 years of "trials and tribulations". It is all in the last book of the Bible, Revelation
2006-09-06 11:44:59 · answer #3 · answered by Emme 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
2006-09-06 11:46:11 · answer #4 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who say you can't seek heaven on earth now. All you need to do is to still your mind or meditate.
2006-09-06 11:39:58 · answer #5 · answered by Bright 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Emmanuel Swedenborg felt that the second coming happened in the 18th century, but most Christians missed it because Christians have become too literalistic and blind.
2006-09-06 11:40:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Excellent point!
But I doubt that many Judeo-Christian believers can ever get beyond their belief in the here-after. Most of them are mindless sheep who believe whatever they are told.
2006-09-06 11:45:38 · answer #7 · answered by Austinite 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus' resurrection wasn't his second coming, he said after he was resurrected that he would come again.
2006-09-06 11:38:55 · answer #8 · answered by GLSigma3 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sorry, but theirs still a battle between good vs evil going on---oh how i wish you were right
2006-09-06 11:41:40 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christ is for all who call on His name
2006-09-06 11:45:06 · answer #10 · answered by papaofgirlmegan 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋