Eternal Life (thanks, but no thanks)

Speaking as a Christian, that sure sounds like hell.I cannot imagine any sane person that would put up with that for any extended period, much less eternity. Of course what you describe could be some drug induced coma or maybe the result of some advanced hallucinogen and imposed by force by some truly evil critter but certainly not something that a sane individual might choose.I perhaps could imagine some eternity where you get to struggle, face increasingly difficult challenges, with failures and successes, always challenged, made to question, filled with doubt and uncertainty; but even there I would hope there would be extended periods of unconsciousness.The idea of eternal bliss, eternal satisfaction, eternal peace may be great for preteens dreaming of their first love, but not something anyone post adolescent would enjoy.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

Those are part of learning. They are essential parts of success, enjoyment, expansion. See, that makes little sense. It is more like being part of some 'posse', some cortege. Surely you don't expect GOD to entertain you, become your court jester, your fool?

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

Hell yes. That definitely sounds like the wet dreams of an juvenile.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

The Bible is filled with fantasy and even poetic passages. What you describe might be fine as I mention, as some preteens fantasy wet dream, but it would be absolute hell as well as absurd in reality.The problem is when folk take passages from the Bible that are fantasy or poetry or folktale or fable or parody and think they represent reality.What you describe would not be a miracle, it would be a travesty, the creation of some very very immature goddlet if it were real.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

I look at what is actually written. Is the story written as poetry, fiction, propaganda, imagery, song? Then, in the case of what you describe as Heaven, I look to see if even if true, would it be something I'd want.What you describe, even if true, would be really boring.I find it hard to believe that any real god could think what you describe would not be unbearable.And of coursed, I have never claimed that Jesus resurrection is fact.Edited by jar, : fix syntax

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

It's interesting that it seems Buz is using the Borg like fantasy from Revelation 21 as the basis of his heaven.

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9One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." 10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. 13There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. 14The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

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15The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. 16The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. 17He measured its wall and it was 144 cubits thick, by man's measurement, which the angel was using. 18The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, 20the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 21The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass.

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22I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.

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It's a pretty classic example of numerology again playing with the number 12 in different formats.It's a fantasy of some great Borg cube coming down to rest on the Earth.

It is stylistic, an example of Apocalyptic Literature, and was meant for the audience of the day. It is not and never was meant as factual.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

And also have parents abusing the child by threats and stories of terror.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

I'm not sure that is really correct either. Might they be saying that Theology does not have answers that can be tested using the scientific method?

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

Forever?Sorry but that just sounds dull.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!