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Where is heaven?
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RE: Where is heaven?
January 6, 2014 at 4:58 am
(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

Really?
Cos revelations says different.
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#32
RE: Where is heaven?
January 6, 2014 at 9:07 am
Quote:Where is heaven?

I'm sure it was in the back seat of that Hot Chocolate guy's Cadillac.

It may have been in someone's baby's arms, eyes, between their thighs, deep in a cave where I won't be found, I'm hazy on those.
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#33
RE: Where is heaven?
January 6, 2014 at 11:15 am
(January 6, 2014 at 4:58 am)Zen Badger 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

Really?
Cos revelations says different.
Be careful how you interpret that highly symbolic vision...
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#34
RE: Where is heaven?
January 6, 2014 at 11:29 am
(January 6, 2014 at 11:15 am)ChadWooters Wrote:
(January 6, 2014 at 4:58 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Really?
Cos revelations says different.
Be careful how you interpret that highly symbolic vision...

It's funny how seldom theists apply that same warning to their own interpretations. Dodgy
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#35
RE: Where is heaven?
January 6, 2014 at 3:22 pm
Some do some don't. The important thing is to cross reference meanings across the canon and to do so with constant prayer.
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#36
RE: Where is heaven?
January 6, 2014 at 10:20 pm (This post was last modified: January 6, 2014 at 10:21 pm by MitchBenn.)
(January 3, 2014 at 6:39 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Progressive revelation is God's way of matching His message to the understanding of the audience. The literal meaning reaches those with a bronze age level of understanding. With the dawn of the Enlightenment the hidden levels were revealed to reach modern society. As moderns we must approach the text in the manner of moderns.

That's exactly what atheists do.
(January 6, 2014 at 4:58 am)Zen Badger 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

Really?
Cos revelations says different.

So does Belinda Carlisle
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RE: Where is heaven?
January 7, 2014 at 7:14 am
(January 6, 2014 at 3:22 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Some do some don't. The important thing is to cross reference meanings across the canon and to do so with constant prayer.

Yep, no chance of an echo chamber effect there. Dodgy
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RE: Where is heaven?
January 7, 2014 at 7:24 am
(January 6, 2014 at 3:22 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Some do some don't. The important thing is to cross reference meanings across the canon and to do so with constant prayer.

And come up with a conclusion that makes you feel good no matter what the actual words say.
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RE: Where is heaven?
January 7, 2014 at 7:36 am
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RE: Where is heaven?
January 7, 2014 at 4:21 pm
(January 7, 2014 at 7:24 am)Zen Badger Wrote:
(January 6, 2014 at 3:22 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Some do some don't. The important thing is to cross reference meanings across the canon and to do so with constant prayer.

And come up with a conclusion that makes you feel good no matter what the actual words say.
Not all the time. It convicts when you life doesn't align with God's loving direction. Perfect contrition doesn't feel comforting initially.
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