Are you nominal Christian or true Believer?

[Guest jckduboise]

Link: nominal Christian or true believer?

Are you a person who wants to be a Christian, perhaps attends the church meetings, but doesn

[tah]

Jackie..this may help...if I understand the question...

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

[Guest jckduboise]

Jackie..this may help...if I understand the question...

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

gotcha, but there is still reference to there being heaven right? so how could somebody get that there will be no heaven?

[Gerioke]

Jackie..this may help...if I understand the question...

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

gotcha, but there is still reference to there being heaven right? so how could somebody get that there will be no heaven?

He didn't say there is no Heaven. He said we would be living on the new earth rather than the new heaven.

[Brandli5]

What are you talking about we will not live in heaven??? You need to read that over again. Christians meaning people that have asked Forgiveness of there sins and have accepted the lord Jesus christ as there savoir, will be in heaven. We will be able to be on the new earth, but we are also going to have a house of gold in heaven.

You can't support that with any Scripture. As I said read Rev. 21.

Yes, I can!!!

The kingdom of God is where God lives that is heaven. He has a thrown there. That is where he is.

These scriptures tell us WHO will NOT be there. ANd it does not say a person who has asked forgiveness will not be there. The bible goes on to say We will be with him. And it does not lie.

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practise such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Gal 5:19-21)

For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. (Eph 5:5)

Jesus said, talking to a priest called Nicodemus, "Except a man is born again he will not see the kingdom of Heaven" (John 3:3).

He also said, " Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of Heaven" (Matthew 18:3).

Jesus said, 'I tell you the truth, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.' (John 3: 3)

The Book of 2nd Corinthians

Chapter 12

2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

Heaven is a Real Place

After Jesus was raised from the dead he went to heaven. The Bible says: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven." (Acts 1:11) Prior to this Jesus told His disciples: "In My Father

Edited May 18, 2006 by Brandli5

[Guest jckduboise]

Jackie..this may help...if I understand the question...

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

gotcha, but there is still reference to there being heaven right? so how could somebody get that there will be no heaven?

He didn't say there is no Heaven. He said we would be living on the new earth rather than the new heaven.

someone did....read the first page...

[Christian]

Third, no one is on their way to Heaven or ever will be. Our eternal home is the New Earth (see Rev. 21).

If no-one will see heaven then who are these people "in heaven" that are spoken of in Revelations?

Rev 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

Rev 7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?

Rev 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

We will be there before we are here in the end

Blessings,

in His service

-CC-

[Guest jckduboise]

wooo hooo

[dakota190]

this is all fine and good, but does anyone remember the original question? because i am not hearing anymore answers. who says christians can't dance?

[Guest jckduboise]

this is all fine and good, but does anyone remember the original question? because i am not hearing anymore answers. who says christians can't dance?

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Either way I answer is going to be awkward..

So if I say I am a true believer and keep my lamp oiled and am ready for my bride-groom then am I not (figuratively speaking) honking my own horn?

And if I say that I am nominal, then am I not saying that I am not quite ready and am waiting for the last minute. To top that, am I not saying that I am hypocrytical?

No I don't see this as a thread that will be fruitful but I do see it as a thread that will allow folks to become judgemental towards each other.

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Your Sister in Christ

Jackie

This remains my answer.