What will you be doing a 1000 years from now?

[Ovedya]

Ah, I see now....

[Guest New Creature]

Dear Diary,

Today was the best day ever. Of course now that I live in New Jerusalem everyday is the best. But today was very extra special. You see when I woke up this morning there was a knock on the door. I rushed down the stairs of my beautiful mansion to see who it was . When I opened the door my face lit up with the biggest smile. It was Jesus! I said "Lord what brings you here to my home". He grabbed my hand and said "Come on we are going to breakfast". " Just you and me", I said. Yes it was just us. We walked down Main Street with its beautiful golden roads and sidewalks made of alabaster.

We went to the nicest little cafe, where we sat eating the most delious breadfast. People walked past and would smile and wave. No one tried to interupt because they all knew they would get their turn. Jesus always made time for everyone.

After breakfast, we went for a long walk where He told me how He had created the rose.

Oh dear someone else is knocking on my door, I'll write more later.

[abbershay]

super! that was wonderful

[Guest dove2]

Abbershay: I do understand what you are trying to say. However, the word "imagination" is not in a Christian's vocabulary. Let me explain because I don't believe you meant it like this.

When I was in WOF, a preacher started having us to use our imagination. We were to fill an imaginary sack with all of our worries and throw them over our shoulder and give them to Jesus without prayer. Now that is not the way to give our problems to Jesus. We are to go to Jesus in prayer and give or tell Him our problems. 'That is where some vain imaginations come in. This teaches us the wrong way to approach Jesus.

I do see myself a thousand years from now, PRAISING JESUS. I won't speculate on what the exact scenario will be in the New Jerusalem. There are many different beliefs about what will be happening during that time of real life in Jesus. Will we be having feasts before the Lord, what work will we be doing? There are many other speculations. In love, I say that I think this is going a little far. We do not use our imagination for such things.

You might could have worded this in a different way and it might have been accepted. In this light, I have to agree with God-man about vain imaginations. I caught that word "imagination" the minute I started reading your post and it put a red flag up for me.

Patsy

[AFaceInTheCrowd]

dining at the MASTER's table being fitted for my white robe singing praises to my KING skipping stones on the crystal sea ohhh so much to do and all the time to do 'em

[Ovedya]

This kind of thing also assumes certain things from Scripture, which I am convinced are nothing more than Christian myth built upon misconceptions from Scripture (John 14:2 & Rev. 21 respectively) taught over the past 2,000 years of church history. This namely being those teachings which promote the Christian "heaven" as being a literal city with streets paved with gold, and each believer inheriting a mansion built especially for them with the Lords own two hands, etc.

There is an article in a theological journal called "Affirmation and Critique" which fairly addresses the subject of "the Leaven of Heaven." It's a bit highbrow-ish, since it's designed to appeal to the more scholarly theologins among us. But if you can get your brain around the article, I highly recommend you download it and read it at your leasure. Here's the link: http://www.affcrit.com/archives/ac_00_02.html

Begin with the article titled, "Purge out the Old Leaven"

[Guest dove2]

Here I go again. I meant that I agree with Dad Ernie on the imagination bit.

God-man, I thought why read something that I am not smart enough to understand to begin with. I am not a theologian, scholarly or otherwise. I was actually shocked when I read the article and knew exactly what it was saying. I didn't read all of the articles just the one you recommended. Therefore, it must be considered low-browish or no brow atol.

There are a lot of artciles to read at that site. I will have to read them all before I comment on them.

Patsy

[nebula]

:music: I can only imagine what it will be like

When I walk by Your side

I can only imagine what my eyes will see

When Your face is before me

I can only imagine

Surrounded by Yur glory

What will my heart feel?

Will I dance before You, Jesus

Or in awe of You be still...

(Sorry, couldn't resist! :x: )

[traveller]

:music:

Will I stand in your Presence

or to my knees will I fall

Will I sing hallelluia

Will I be able to speak at all

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

(not my fault - Neb put the song in my head! ) :a:

[Ovedya]

Here I go again. I meant that I agree with Dad Ernie on the imagination bit.

God-man, I thought why read something that I am not smart enough to understand to begin with. I am not a theologian, scholarly or otherwise. I was actually shocked when I read the article and knew exactly what it was saying. I didn't read all of the articles just the one you recommended. Therefore, it must be considered low-browish or no brow atol.

There are a lot of artciles to read at that site. I will have to read them all before I comment on them.

Patsy

I didn't mean to imply that no one was intellegent enough to read or understand the articles, only that they were written with intellectual types in mind. And, again, not that you are not an intellectual; the articles just have a tendancy to be a bit dry.