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“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...

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

“What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What concord is there between the Academy and the Church? What between heretics and Christians? Our instruction comes from the porch of Solomon …” (Tertullian, Prescription Against Heretics, Chapter 7) Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III : The...

“Heaven is never in fact used in the Bible for the destination of the dying.” (J.A.T. Robinson, In The End God)

Welcome to the forums. Internet forums are notoriously toxic environments. You’ve said what you want. Have you asked what does God want? Does he want you to fit in? Have you considered that maybe he wants you to stand out?

“But how can people call on him if they have not believed in him? How can they believe in him if they have not heard his message?” (Romans 10:14, GW) “Now after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying ‘The time is fulfilled, and the...

How do you know?

No.

May God hasten the day when it’s never a cause of death, in any community.

Work.

Ideally, stand and die. Likely, flee and die. Whether ideally or likely, die.

Jerusalem. “If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy.” (Psalm 137:5-6, HCSB)

“But when they believed Philip preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.” (Acts 8:12, JUB)

“But seek first the kingdom [of God] and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you besides.” (Matthew 6:33, NABRE)

“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.” (Archbishop Desmond Tutu) I left them with both. (Although I did bring back a small piece of the land, a rock...

The gospel which Jesus and the apostles preached.

Been there. Seen that.

“I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come?” (Psalm 121:1, NASB) That’s where it has to start.

That sounds like a selfish motive to me. I trust in God and in the Messiah to care for me, not my children. Maybe I’ve misunderstood what you were asking.

Ads that turn me off aren’t a problem for me. It’s ads that turn me on, or attempt to, that I have to guard against. “Trigger” isn’t just the name of Roy Rogers’ horse. A clever commercial asks, “What’s in your wallet?” A powerful tool for good and evil which must be properly used by a mind...