The Holy Bible describes Heaven as a beautiful place where people live forever with no death, sorrow, sickness and pain. {Revelation 21:4} Hell is described as a place of suffering forever for all those who are not saved. {Matthew 13:50} The good news is that about 2000 years ago Jesus Christ(God the Son) paid for everyone's sins or wrong doing by dying on the cross and rising from the dead after three days. {Mark 10:34} God the Son came as a sinless man. {Philippians 2:5-8} Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto God(The Father), but by me." {John 14:6} He is our ONLY way to God(The Father) in Heaven. The Holy Bible says, "That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God(The Father) raised Jesus Christ from the dead, you will be saved." {Romans 10:9} You should not wait until later to get saved because you may die before you get another chance and you will miss Heaven. If you want to be sure you will go to Heaven after this life is over just pray a meaningful prayer like the one below with your mouth and from your heart right now to God and you will be saved. Dear God I want to be saved. Dear Jesus Christ Son of God I want to make you my personal Lord and Savior. Please forgive me of my sins or things I have done wrong in my life. Thanks Jesus Christ for taking my punishment for my sins by shedding your sinless blood on the cross and dying for my sins. Jesus Christ I now confess you as my Lord and believe in my heart that God(The Father) raised you from the dead. Amen. If you just allowed God to save you then welcome to the family of God because you are now a Christian on your way to Heaven.Now that you are saved, there are some things you should do for spiritual growth: 1. In addition to being taught the Bible in church, Sunday School, and/or Bible studies - you need to be reading the Bible for yourself. The Bible contains everything you need to know in order to live a successful Christian life. It contains God's guidance for how to make wise decisions, how to know God's will, how to minister to others, and how to grow spiritually. The Bible is God's Word to us. The Bible is essentially God's instruction manual for how to live our lives in a way that is pleasing to Him and satisfying to us. 2. Develop relationships with people who can help you spiritually. 1 Corinthians 15:33 tells us, "Do not be misled: 'Bad company corrupts good character.'" The Bible is full of warnings about the influence "bad" people can have on us. Spending time with those who engage in sinful activities will cause us to be tempted by those activities. The character of those we are around will "rub off" on us. That is why it is so important to surround ourselves with other people who love the Lord Jesus Christ and are committed to Him.Have a good day,Ronald L. GrossiRonaldLGrossi@yahoo.com (Send all questions to this email address.) Please copy and paste this entire message and email it to your friends and family so they can learn the truth about Heaven.
Although this seems like a random 'campaign' of advertisement, it does open up some opportunity for some discussion so I'll just keep this open.Heaven, to me, is simple. It's what I've been taught when I was a child, and it's what I've been taught by the Church. It's the place where angels go, and eventually, if you're good, it's where you go.I have some doubts about Hell though. However, if there's a Hell, then I'm pretty sure there's a purgatory as well, so that's probably where I'll end up being.
Apparently by the bible's definition heaven is a place in which you have the feeling of "closeness" to your creator while in hell you are far away from his love. In heaven you are not in full consciousness from the way I interpret it. Personally, heaven doesn't sound all that great. Anyways.. I just think that the whole heaven thing is stupid. People should make the most out of this life rather than always looking forward to the next thing. I do understand that it serves its purpose to give people hope in the world that they'll see their loved ones again.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PurplePeopleEaters @ Jun 14 2007, 08:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Apparently by the bible's definition heaven is a place in which you have the feeling of "closeness" to your creator while in hell you are far away from his love. In heaven you are not in full consciousness from the way I interpret it. Personally, heaven doesn't sound all that great. Anyways.. I just think that the whole heaven thing is stupid. People should make the most out of this life rather than always looking forward to the next thing. I do understand that it serves its purpose to give people hope in the world that they'll see their loved ones again.</div>I always thought Heaven was supposed to be more of an incentive for good behavior then anything else. But whatever.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AdropOFvenom @ Jun 15 2007, 06:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PurplePeopleEaters @ Jun 14 2007, 08:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Apparently by the bible's definition heaven is a place in which you have the feeling of "closeness" to your creator while in hell you are far away from his love. In heaven you are not in full consciousness from the way I interpret it. Personally, heaven doesn't sound all that great. Anyways.. I just think that the whole heaven thing is stupid. People should make the most out of this life rather than always looking forward to the next thing. I do understand that it serves its purpose to give people hope in the world that they'll see their loved ones again.</div>I always thought Heaven was supposed to be more of an incentive for good behavior then anything else. But whatever.</div>Well, yeah but you can kill 1000 people throughout your life and apologize to god for your sins on your deathbed and according to the definition you can still go to heaven as long as you believe that Jesus is your savior.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PurplePeopleEaters @ Jun 15 2007, 12:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AdropOFvenom @ Jun 15 2007, 06:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PurplePeopleEaters @ Jun 14 2007, 08:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Apparently by the bible's definition heaven is a place in which you have the feeling of "closeness" to your creator while in hell you are far away from his love. In heaven you are not in full consciousness from the way I interpret it. Personally, heaven doesn't sound all that great. Anyways.. I just think that the whole heaven thing is stupid. People should make the most out of this life rather than always looking forward to the next thing. I do understand that it serves its purpose to give people hope in the world that they'll see their loved ones again.</div>I always thought Heaven was supposed to be more of an incentive for good behavior then anything else. But whatever.</div>Well, yeah but you can kill 1000 people throughout your life and apologize to god for your sins on your deathbed and according to the definition you can still go to heaven as long as you believe that Jesus is your savior. </div>That's Protestant belief.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PurplePeopleEaters @ Jun 14 2007, 09:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Apparently by the bible's definition heaven is a place in which you have the feeling of "closeness" to your creator while in hell you are far away from his love. In heaven you are not in full consciousness from the way I interpret it. Personally, heaven doesn't sound all that great. Anyways.. I just think that the whole heaven thing is stupid. People should make the most out of this life rather than always looking forward to the next thing. I do understand that it serves its purpose to give people hope in the world that they'll see their loved ones again.</div>Heaven is more described as serenity than anything else. Think of the time you were feeling the best in your life, loved, no worries, absent of fear and sorrow. That's heaven.Hell is a separation from all that is good (and despite commonly held belief is rarely described as a place of fire in the Bible. Dante's Inferno popularized that belief, but on a whole Hell is most commonly described as a separation from God's love. Imagine hopeless depression, so much so you want to end your own life (yet you are in Hell, so you can't). That is more of the description of Hell.Or, to way oversimplify it: Heaven is like you are breathing pure oxygen, Hell is like you are in a deep pit of depression.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (chang @ Jun 13 2007, 10:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Advertising.</div>No, he's just doing the right thing.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Punisher @ Jun 15 2007, 08:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (chang @ Jun 13 2007, 10:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Advertising.</div>No, he's just doing the right thing.</div>Is he? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Please copy and paste this entire message and email it to your friends and family so they can learn the truth about Heaven.</div>That sounds like advertising to me.
He isnt trying to make $$$ hes trying to spread the word; advertising an opinion is much different than advertising a product.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Capt. Comeback @ Jun 16 2007, 03:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>But he's advertising a religion, something I really could live without.</div>Will it really put a dent in your time when you click a few times on your mouse just to find an "advertising" heaven "ad"?If you don't want to read this topic, then it's simple: Stay out.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (JHair @ Jun 15 2007, 09:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He isnt trying to make $$$ hes trying to spread the word; advertising an opinion is much different than advertising a product.</div>Trying to impose anything upon someone is advertising.
^ HAHA.<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>But he's advertising a religion, something I really could live without.</div>Doesn't seem that way
You seem like a person that gets angry easily and then you probably think about your problems all day rather than just thanking God for living and thinking about the future. Instead of telling your "God" how big your problems are, why don't you tell your problems how big God is?
