2007-02-25 19:46:22 · 11 answers · asked by Tolits E 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's right! The first thing we know about God's will is that He wants us to be saved, and to live with Him in heaven.
2007-02-25 19:51:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible says that all of us have sinned (Romans 3:23), and since not everyone in this world will choose to have their sins forgiven through Christ's sacrifice (Matthew 7:13-14; John 14:6; 1 Timothy 2:5), this isn't heaven. We will reach heaven if we have been cleansed by Christ's sacrifice, but we will not see "heaven on earth" as we might think of it.
2007-02-25 20:01:54 · answer #2 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Only 144,000 have a heavenly future.
And those are very special people who will assist Jesus with the judgement that is coming on mankind,
(Revelation 20:4) And I saw thrones, and there were those who sat down on them, and power of judging was given them. Yes, I saw the souls of those executed with the ax for the witness they bore to Jesus and for speaking about God, and those who had worshiped neither the wild beast nor its image and who had not received the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand. And they came to life and ruled as kings with the Christ for a thousand years.
Only those who ' speak about God' are included. This precludes the false teaching that everyone who dies goes to heaven.
(1 Corinthians 6:2-3) Or do YOU not know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by YOU, are YOU unfit to try very trivial matters? 3 Do YOU not know that we shall judge angels? Why, then, not matters of this life?
So angels themselves are not the judges. They do not have earthly experience.
As for the rest, they remain ' asleep' in death until the resurrection.
(2 Peter 3:4) and saying: “Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep [in death], all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning.”
To be ' asleep' matches the condition of the dead;;
(Ecclesiastes 9:5-6) 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. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.
2007-02-25 20:30:29 · answer #3 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHY THE PROMISE OF A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH?
Isa.45:28; 65:17; 66:1,22,23; 2 Pet.3:13; Rev.3:12; 21:1-5;
WHY THE WORLD WITH JESUS IS WITHOUT END?
Eph.2:7; 3:21; The world with Jesus is without end. John 3:16;
2007-02-25 20:19:28 · answer #4 · answered by jeni 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes we woud already be in heaven if we would just do the will of God.
2007-02-25 20:13:11 · answer #5 · answered by Speak freely 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We cannot do the will of God. It was only Jesus that could. And because He did, we can live vicariously through Him.
2007-02-25 19:57:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Christ said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except though Me."
2007-02-25 19:51:08 · answer #7 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If there was a god, then maybe yes.
2007-02-25 20:04:08 · answer #8 · answered by Mighty Oats 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we did, than who are the meek that inherit the Earth?
2007-02-25 19:50:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what you've been huffing, but that chump ain't real.
2007-02-25 19:50:54 · answer #10 · answered by FaceFullofFashion 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋