RE: Where is heaven?
January 3, 2014 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2014 at 3:38 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(January 3, 2014 at 3:04 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:(January 3, 2014 at 2:22 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Heaven is not a place. Heaven is a state of existing in relation to the Lord. Luke 17:21
Your taking that verse out of context. Jesus is saying how some will misinterpret signs of the end. Like Jesus on toast.
The misinterpretation of signs is attributed to having a faulty conception of the Kingdom of Heaven as time and place. Jesus was "in their midst" was he not? That reading also applies to the term "at hand" used in relation to the Kingdom of Heaven. To enter the Kingdom of Heaven means to repent and follow Christ.
(January 3, 2014 at 1:24 pm)Brakeman Wrote: .. mansion not existing in the clouds...Wherever the word mansion is used it refers to doctrines since these figuratively house our beliefs. "In the clouds" always means to be obscured by the surface or literal meaning of the text.
(January 3, 2014 at 3:23 pm)djkamilo Wrote:Progressive revelation allows God to reach us where we are. Theses hidden meanings were opened in 1757, so you almost got the year right.(January 3, 2014 at 2:22 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Heaven is not a place. Heaven is a state of existing in relation to the Lord. Luke 17:21
Not quite what Christians believed before the 17th century
