Mark 9:47
And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell.
That's just sick....
2006-12-11 03:03:18 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Only to those with a physical view of the afterlife.
2006-12-11 03:05:43 · answer #1 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
This verse is referring to the possiblitity of envy, or lust leading a person into committing a sin against God and others. When we commit ourselves to God, our priorities are always for the good of others and the well being of all. Only he can give us the inner strength to keep doing right consistently.
He is saying that we need to give our whole selves body soul and spirit into the care and keeping of God's leadership, so as to bring about the most good for ourselves and others.
The Bible teaches that there will be trees of healing that grow alongside the river that flows from God's Holy City-trees that give healing to the nations-so I would assume there will be perfect health for all.
2006-12-11 03:20:47 · answer #2 · answered by Maximillian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what heaven will be like, but the extreme example you gave was Jesus trying to demonstrate how important being in heaven is and how loathesome sin is. (I don't think that he REALLY wanted you to pluck out your eye, or there would be a lot of blind people walking around, ne?)
2006-12-11 03:08:34 · answer #3 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The verse you quoted was to serve as an analogy of how sad it would be to miss Heaven over the sins of the flesh. it didn't mean that literally speaking, a person who suffered a certain defect or disease and etc. would have evidence of that existence in their glorified bodies.
2006-12-11 04:57:23 · answer #4 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "Kingdom of God" Jesus speaks of is now. Heaven is the eternal home of the redeemed. There, we'll have a new, immortal and flawless body.
2006-12-11 03:14:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot of sick scriptures in the Bible, the Q'uran, and other scriptures.
No those problems only affect the physical body not the non physical soul.
2006-12-11 03:07:22 · answer #6 · answered by Rev. Two Bears 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but we'll get the good wife - unless she goes with the pool boy again. Come to think of it, that's probably why the Catholic church tosses divorcees into hell. Better to let Satan sort that stuff out.
2006-12-11 03:10:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That isn't meant literally, because if it was, we'd all go to hell.
It means if there's something in your life that is getting between you and God, causing you to sin, get rid of it. God can't change you until you let him.
2006-12-11 03:13:08 · answer #8 · answered by Doug 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That scripture is absurd. Your eyes are for your body to see, not your soul.
No, the body dies. The soul has no body to be paralyzed.
2006-12-11 03:07:37 · answer #9 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The people who make it to heaven will receive new perfected bodies. We will be known but perfected.
2006-12-11 03:06:03 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋