Ah, but the most interesting of all to me is to discuss
"so disappointing from Heaven's point of view." Yes. I
believe it has been very disappointing from Heaven's point
of view. We are now almost reaching the immoral excesses on
a world-wide scale as the city of Sodom and Gormorrah.
I neither think about it or speak about it, because as Paul
said it is not right to even discuss it. There have been
isolated decades in history where I believe God was very
pleased and had a lot of people who loved him and very
sweet and wonderful people lived sweet and wonderful lives.
I spend a lot of time studying history, and graduated from
George Washington with a major in American and European
history as a prep for the foreign service, which never
happened. At this point in time I certainly don't plan to
defend my view of the sweep of history. It is to gag.
I also would like to apologize for sharing with you the
experience my friend at work had. He was a little
disappointed, and said that he had hardly ever told anyone
that experience because it is so sacred to him. He rather
felt like I was "casting his pearls before swine" was his
statement, and even after I described the thread and said
it was only for real Christians who really loved God,
he still seemed disappointed, and that made me feel all the
worse about it as I realize some of the people who read this thread might actually believe that at death God "stores" people in a state
of darkness somewhere until He is ready to bring them
back to consciousness. Sorry. Don't buy that. Believe in
the beautiful "holding place" that some people are blessed to
see. They see it to bring back the story. But it was not
my place to tell without asking first, and so I won't do
anything like that again.
And Shalom, as I told you, Jane isn't my real name. I don't
think Shalom is your real name either, but Shalom is
wonderful. Being called Jane so much is getting to be
weirdly amusing.
What I would like to know is what you think of the exact
translation of the words I referred to. Could they possibly
mean anything but the exact words they refer to? I think
not, but then I'm into the exact meaning of words, where the
Bible is concerned, and feel that personal interpretation
leads off into the bushes. The bushes are dangerous. |
