Are you offended by them?
No. I wasn’t then and I’m not now.
They could cause offense. They could turn off. They could shut down. They could end conversation. They could end friendship.
It’s because of that
potential that I don’t use them in conversation.
We’ve known one another on the Internet for several years now. I had a decision to make; a choice. The
potential is there in your words but, because I know you as well as I do, there was no real chance of that happening. My decision, my choice, was an easy one to make.
Had it been said to me by someone I don’t know as well as I know you, I might have made a different decision.
I’m not chastising you over them. I’m thanking you for them. They gave me a segue - in a safe and friendly environment - to comment on something which has been weighing on my mind.
Our words are spirit and they have power. We all need to be careful with them. They can work for us and they can work against us.
If you posed those words to me (and asked me to rethink a premise) I would wonder and ask what inconsistency it was that you were referring to. Then, if you were to respond to that inquiry, I would re-examine the premise and see if you were right in thinking it inconsistent - confounding the other things I've said.
Which is precisely what occurred with me in the course of our conversation.
Incidentally, you never explained your answer to the original question that began the conversation, did you? How can a "mortal human person" be in heaven?
I’ve never believed that a mortal human person can be in heaven. In fact, I’ve said that no mortal human person is in heaven, nor ever will be.
What I’ve said, and what I’ve believed for a long time now, is that an immortal human person is sitting at the right hand of his God and my God in heaven right now.
I don’t see anything in scripture which leads me to think that any other human person who will be clothed with immortality when resurrected from the dead will ever be in heaven at any time. I leave open the possibility that it could happen sometime but the action such persons will be involved in will take place on the earth.