Ok, don't shoot me for this, but I don't recall where I read it. Somewhere I read that we won't even have identities in heaven. I mean, we won't be like we are now. We will all have heavenly bodies and be perfect like the Lord. ~~~~~~ write2witness
write2witness , did you read this in the Bible or somewhere else? The "non-identity in heaven" doesn't fit at all with the Bible, for Revelations 7:9 specifies a great ethnic diversity of people in heaven. And Rev. 2:17 talks of some kind of new ID with a new name we will be given in Heaven also. So we do keep our identity. A religion that definitely talks about us not having any identity is Buddhism where we all just melt into this huge cosmic sea of energy. We literary dissolve into it ceasing to ever exist as individuals again. We just become.... a massive humming buzzing electrical thing floating around for all eternity. What a depressing scenario!
Why would anyone place a trash can with food left in it for your doggies to even tip over -of course, they're going to get into it! They are dogs it is their nature following their nose - It is man's nature to make mistakes, an owner would know that be he a slave owner or the Creator Himself.
See that's where the blame comes in - the owner would be a ridiculously nutty owner to set up this scenario. I can not believe my Beloved Father did this. No way.
Again -I do not want to offend anyone - it's new as of a few weeks ago to think in this way and
break free from old thoughts in my head that I believed for eons it seems. ~~~~~~~~ Miss Hepburn
Miss hepburn, it's quite hard to follow you, but certainly you're not thinking out of the box, you're thinking out of the Bible! May I ask what happened "a few weeks ago" that suddenly gave you new insight that broke old thought patterns, and why you decided this new info was the real deal? Anyway, i just wanted to comment on your thinking that GOd put these two trees in the Garden as some kind of sadistic joke waiting for man to fall for it so to kick him out of Eden and make life miserable for all on earth....
The two trees weren't there for temptation. The devil tempts us, not God.
James 1:13 . Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
Also, the Bible nevers says the trees were tempting in the first place. It’s not like all the trees available to Adam and Eve grew green beans and cabbage while Gods trees were full of delicious mangos, juicy oranges and mouth watering peaches. It was probably all the contrary. The garden was most likely filled with a wide variety of delicious fruits and vegetables for man and beast to enjoy in infinite combinations. It was probably Gods two trees that had the green beans and cabbages. So the analogy of a doggie in the backyard surrounded by boring tasteless grass and suddenly discovering a trash can full of delicious rotting leftovers really doesn’t fit.
SO if the trees weren’t there to sadistically tempt man, then there was probably a purpose for their being there. Apparently, the two trees had a use, but it was reserved for a right time. There was a tree of knowledge and a tree of life. God wanted to give these things to man but at the right time and under His right circumstances. The reason i have this opinion is because of verses such as:
1C 13:8-10. Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
With Christ's return, partial knowledge shall cease and perfect knowledge shall commence.
2C 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
God wants us to have knowledge, but through His Son Jesus. As for the tree of life.
AV Re 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was there] the tree of life, which bare twelve [manner of] fruits, [and] yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree [were] for the healing of the nations.
AV Re 22:14 Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
God also wanted us to take the fruit of that tree, but only at HIs timing and under His conditions. Those trees were in the garden because they were gonna be given to man, at the right time.
Man's rebellion and temptation had nothing to do with these trees and everything to do with following Satan and challenging God....... trees or no trees.