You've already showed me your colors, Damar.
It's kinda easy to tell who my avatar is....but do you know his personal problems? HIs past loves and losses? How his dad used to beat him in a dungeon when he was a boy? No. So my avatar is as explainable as yours.
And, uh, the avatar raises no point to my soul...
So I'm a stranger, am I? That's just fine with me. I'll be an openly malicious one, at that. But, first, how am I malicious? Please, enlighten me.
I dunno, Eon. If my wife died, and I REALLY loved her, and I mean actually loved, her, then I would definitely miss her, and I don't think any amount of new wives could replace that memory, or any memory of another dead wife, or dead parents, or dead best friend, or anything like that. Death is two things: a uniter and a divider. It unites one to an eternity, and it divides one from another. Very interesting, that.
Now, uh, last I checked Eon, Baptists didn't skim your cortex with hotwires to make you forget the stuff that you point out and debate with us now...you're still human after becoming a Christian....at least, I think I am. Not sure about what happened to you last you went to a church that baptized.
The thing is this: God judges me for my actions on Earth. And for those actions, I am either rewarded or detracted from in the judgement day. So, suppose I convert as many people as Billy Graham has....I get rewarded for that in heaven. But, suppose I lie to as many people as Peter Popov did, then I am judged for that accordingly, and I don't get rewarded for that, definitely not. God does not reward sin, as so many do.
I cannot explain eternity, I cannot explain pain, I cannot explain tears, I cannot explain hell, I cannot explain heaven. It is something one must experience. What I do know is this: heaven and hell are separated forever. Those in hell can't find heaven, and those in heaven can't find hell. It's impossible. Christ's death emptied Sheol, and now there is a heaven, and a hell. Where they are, I do not know. Where they are, I do not care. All I know is that all who live will one die find theirselves at one place or another. I know I shall find myself in heaven, despite my sins that I have committed. I have placed my faith in Christ.
I wish death wasn't as it is, Eon, but it is. I wish that when I die, I will be able to be with all my dead non-Christian friends. But I won't be able to. It's just impossible.
And heaven will not be a constant drip of Prozac. No. It wil be something totally different. Let me try and put it best this way: there are two people in this world: those of Christ and those that aren't. Those that aren't are of the devil, it is said, the prince of the air, Satan. We are bonded to two separate masters, one to Christ, one to Satan. Some people love their bonds, others hate them. Some see the bonding to Christ as worse than being bound to Satan, so choose to take their side with him. Others see Christ as far superior to Satan, and choose to take their side with him. We are currently living our lives to our two masters. When we die, we will go to be in a junction with our two masters. Christ's shall be a euphoric union, and the others' union with their master, the devil, shall be a painful, chaotic, burning one, and he shall burn with you, cursed as you are. Isaiah 14:12-17 states, "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High. Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. Those who see you will gaze at you, and consider you, saying: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities, who did not open the house of his prisoners?'"
Well, that's pretty deep. Satan is as fallen as his followers. He shall burn with them all, and they will look at him and wonder, "Geez, this is my leader. And he's down here, with ME? He tore up the world! He killed those who wouldn't follow after him! And now he's here, as equal as the rest of us?"
Interesting. Very interesting. I would hate to be in eternal torment with my lord. That is a very, very, very poor leader, if that be the case. I would much rather be on the winning side.
And it is there that the two sides must part: one can yearn after the other, but the other cannot after the one. It is impossible. In heaven, there can be no sadness, because it is God up there. In hell, there can be sadness abundant, and it is said there will be. If my wife burns down there, geez, that sucks. But I can do nothing of it, and I cannot go to her. And if I do, and she will know of me, because I would have told her all that talk of God and love and Christ and salvation and forgiveness of sins and all that, and she will look at me, and say, "YOU! You put me here! Why didn't you try harder? Why am I here? Why am I in this pain? YOU put me here! You didn't tell me!" That would suck even more. It is said in SCripture that there shall be anguish and the pointing of the finger from person to person on who to blame for being there in hell.
BUt who can we blame for those in heaven? Christ alone. Geez, thanks! I'd love to blame him for being in heaven. Seriously, I would.
