when we are going home to heaven will you meet me there?

Holy999 said:

can you say me it

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I hope so H999......you will frolic like a young deer with no restrictions and joy will be your constant companion.

No.

Matthias said:

No.

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really?

quietthinker said:

really?

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“Heaven is never in fact used in the Bible for the destination of the dying.”

(J.A.T. Robinson, In The End God)

Matthias said:

“Heaven is never in fact used in the Bible for the destination of the dying.”

(J.A.T. Robinson, In The End God)

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and J.A.T. Robinson is an authority on which euphemisms apply and which don't?
Would it be considered that the destination of those who die is the grave?
We need to be mindful of where to major and where to minor and who (the situation) we are dealing with.......and that being pedantic is nothing more than a smokescreen for ignorance.

quietthinker said:

and J.A.T. Robinson is an authority on which euphemisms apply and which don't?
Would it be considered that the destination of those who die is the grave?
We need to be mindful of where to major and where to minor and who (the situation) we are dealing with.......and that being pedantic is nothing more than a smokescreen for ignorance.

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It’s no small error to place the dead alive in heaven.

“For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth], and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians, even as one, if he would rightly consider it, would not admit that the Sadducees, or similar sects of Genistae, Meristae, Gallilleans, Hellenists, Pharisees, Baptists, are Jews (do not hear me impatiently when I tell you what I think), but are [only] called Jews and children of Abraham, worshipping God with the lips, as God Himself declared, but the heart was far from Him. But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, [as] the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare.”

(Justin Martyr, Dialogue With Trypho! Chapter XXXL)

CHURCH FATHERS: Dialogue with Trypho, Chapters 69-88 (Justin Martyr)