The bible says that when we die there is no time. But it also does say that God is preparing us a home for when we die and when he is done he will have a judgement day and take the good people up. If that is true, then if God is preparing us a home, he will have to finish. and if he finishes that will be at a certain time won't it? So how can there be no time? And also, lets say we have eyes in heaven, if we blink, then re-open our eyes, that would be in the past. so there has to be time! i just dont get it. please help me understand.
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I used to think of things a bit like that. I would suggest not to worry; St Paul said "for now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face". \n\nWe can't possibly totally understand the spirit world with our human brains. I don't think we will have the same eyes as we do now etc. I believe God's word is trying to help us to understand things in our human understanding by describing it to us in the best way it can. I do believe there is no time in the spirit world. But, for example, with the 1000 years following the end of the world there will still be time on the earth. After that we shall live and reign with God forever. God loves us and knows we are human. I'm sorry I can't explain myself very well.
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I asked this question to a jehoivus witness (however its spelt) and they said that saten had another 10,000 years ruling earth and then god would come down and banish him to a prison af sorts, thats when life on earth is supposed to end, the dead willl rise (not in zombie style,lol.) and their souls will be judged, along with the 'living'. the bad will get cast to hell and the 'good' will have new lives on earth where there is no death or desiese and will be ruled over by jesus. Thats why its called 'judgement day'. \nDont really believe this, because apparently if you dont believe in the jehovus wittness way of life you will defo go hell. \nDont believe ANYTHING that jehovus witness say, come to think of it! :)
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gosh it seems like a lot of people are pretty skeptical about what you are saying but i am in agreement with you.  now i am not very knowledgeable on endtimes prophecies but i would not be completely surprised if Jesus' second coming were to occur in this age.\n\nWith that said, it is not for us to predict or prepare for the exact date of Jesus' second coming but every day we should live as if it were the last.
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The Bible does state that "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord". Remember that eternity doesn't have time, therefore, when one dies, they are no longer times control. So, no one can as with all accuracy that judgment does not immediately occur after death. I personally believe that once one does die they are immediately either with God in heaven or in torment in hell. And there they are bound for all eternity, never to have anything to do with the earth ever again.
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There is a time to live and a time to die; just as sure as we all have a birthday, we all have a death date as well.\n\nNo, you can not cheat death. Regardless of what circumstance may not take your life; car accidents, heart attacks, cancer, train wreck, etc. The reality is you are here, because it was not time for you to die...but, death can not be cheated; only delayed and a delay is not a deny...it will come and it when it does, no one knows the time or hour. The bible says that death comes like a thief in the night; which only means you never expect it, nor can you really prepare for it.
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Your question assumes God is "in time".  He is not.  He is outside of time and space.  He created time and space!  So it doesn't make sense to ask "HOW LONG was God alone".  He just existed\n\nIn addition, he was not alone.  He has always existed as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.\n\nWrap your mind around that one!
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There are many questions that cannot be answered, yours are among them.  The end of the world is impossible to predict, and what will end it cannot be known.  I don't see anything happening too soon, so I woudn't worry about it if I were you.  The Sun won't explode, yet there will come a time -- so far into the future that neither you or I will have to worry about it -- that it will burn out.  God is merciful.  As long as there are a few of us who believe in God, He won't wipe us out.  I believe that God just let us on our own, to see how we handle his gift of the universe.
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Time does not really exist.  It has a temporal existence that is passing and fading and decaying.  Put simply, there will be a last day, just as there was a first and as such time will have no claim to true existence.  Time will be swallowed by timelessness, as it was before time.  \n\nTime can only exist as timelessness moves aside, and creates a void of timelessness in which time may exist temporally.  Timelessness is the absolute from which time is derived, and upon which time is contingient.\n\nHowever, if you belive that you exist.  then you can say "i am."  You have temporal existence.  But only as the ABSOLUTE "I AM" moved aside for a while so that you could exist within the void of Himself.  You can only say that you are because the Great "I AM" made a place for you by getting out of the way.  \n\nThe Lord is the Absolute "I AM" from which you derived and upon which your ability to say "i am" is contingient.  You would not exist had not God existed before you and moved himself through compression to create a void in which you may temporarily exist.   The only reason you can say "i am" is that God says "I AM."\n\nFurthermore, your temporal existence is the PROOF that absolute existence is the true reality.  Want to disprove God's existence?  Then you must make yourself (and everyone else) non-existant, because each breath you take .. and each moment that someone can say "i am" is the proof of an absolute reality that says "I AM."\n\nGod is beyond the cosmos, and has moved aside to create a void of Himself in which you now exist - the cosmos ... a temporal void.
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Actually you are on the deep end of the thought spectrum. I like it – Deep Thinker.\n\nTime is basically a small equation of the essence of God’s eternal clock. Time doesn’t exist in eternity. Time ends, eternity doesn’t. \n\nWhether high or not, I think that your post is a great question, now, continue to think deep, just minus the blunt, man. ;-)\n\nBe blessed.
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You ask a very tough question.\nAs far as the thought that we planned our lives, that's nonsense.  You get no such understanding from the bible.\n\nWe do get an understanding that our lives are predestined according to scripture.\nEph 1 will talk about predestination.\n\nNow, if that is the case, where does free will come into play?  \nHere is my understanding, but I won't hold it as dogmatic and I am open for correction on this one.\n\nI believe that we are predestined according to becoming saved.  We know that no man can come to God unless He draws him.\nJohn 6:44\nNo man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.\n\nSo God chooses who He draws and who He doesn't.  We know that we were chosen before the earth was made.\nEph 1:4\nAccording as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:\n\nI also believe that even though He has chosen us, it is still up to us to serve Him after that.  We must make the choice to serve Him after the calling.\nJoshua 24:15\nAnd if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.\n\nSo, we see that there is a choice to serve Him or not.  \n\nThe callings that God gives us are not our choice.  You can't choose to be an evangelist or a prophet.  You can only acknowledge what God has called you to be and work in that calling.  However, you still have a choice to operate in that calling or not.\nYou can still be disobedient or obedient.  That choice is up to you.\n\nHere's the bottom line.  We shouldn't be overly concerned about this.  Regardless of whether we are predestined or not, our main focus should be to serve God with our all.  The doctrine of predestination causes some people to become lazy in the faith because they feel that they can't screw up.  So, they wind up becoming lazy and very bad Christians.\nJust serve God with everything you have and let these kinds of questions be answered after we meet God face to face.
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It is at least seven years away. The world is unraveling, the one world government is around the corner. God is in the process of cleansing His people, getting rid of the chaff. Soon, Christ will come for His bride, His church. Then, the Holy Spirit will be removed and the man of sin will ascend to power, then the count down begins. \n\n2Pe 3:3  first, knowing this, that during the last days scoffers will come walking according to their own lusts, \n2Pe 3:4  and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For from which time the fathers fell asleep, all things remain so from the beginning of creation. \n2Pe 3:5  For this is hidden from them by their willing it so, that heavens were of old, and earth by water, and through water, having subsisted by the Word of God, \n2Pe 3:6  through which the world which then was, being flooded by water, perished. \n2Pe 3:7  But the heavens and the earth now, having been stored up by the same Word, are being kept for fire to a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. \n2Pe 3:8  But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is "as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Psa. 90:4 \n2Pe 3:9  The Lord of the promise is not slow, as some deem slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not having purposed any to perish, but all to come to repentance. \n2Pe 3:10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with rushing sound, and having burned the elements will be dissolved, and earth and the works in it will be burned up. \n2Pe 3:11  Then all these being about to be dissolved, of what sort ought you to be in holy behavior and godliness,
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When its time, God will call them home.  When our job is done here on this earth, then we must go.  Only God knows.  The more time you spend wondering, is time not being spent with your loved ones.  Cherish what you have, NOW.  Live and love everyday like it was your last.  Who knows, maybe my last job here on earth, was to answer this question.  Tomorrow on my drive to work, it could be time for me to go.  So now, I must call my mother and father, and tell them good night, and I love them.  Cherish your yesterdays, dream of your tomorrows, but live today for those dreams of tomorrow.
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What If The Lord Were To Come Right Now? Would You Know For Sure, Without A Doubt, That You Would Go Heaven? \n\nMay I tell you my story?\n\nMy story relates to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.\n\nWho is this Jesus?\n\nWe can know how to have eternal life!\n1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, [even] unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God. \n\nThere was a time in my life when I was confused, because of all the different churches out there. Which one do I believe, because they all teach different things?\n\nJust because I was raised by my parents to believe certain things does that make everyone else wrong? No.\nI got to thinking in life there are life and death statements.\nFor instance let's say your house catches on fire. Someone comes up in the middle of the night and raps on the window and shouts "get out of the house, the house is on fire." Well you know you wouldn't need an interpreter or call a few friends over and ask them what it means when someone says your house is on fire. No you wouldn't do that it is so clear what you should do. You understand you simply have to act on it and get out of the house. Well I got to thinking the Bible talks about there being an everlasting punishment. I believe this is Gods word. I thought God must have some life and death statements. Like get out of the house the house is on fire. Does God have some statements like believe this and you will live do this and you will die? He does. \n\nThen, what has been written? \n\nJohn 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except ye believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.\n\nWell I know what that means. Unless I believe that Jesus is who he says he is I will die in my sins.\n\nIsn't this a life and death statement?\n\nThen who is this Jesus? \n\nLet's go exploring. \n\nMatthew 16:13-17 Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of man is? 14 And they said, Some [say] John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. 15 He saith unto them, But who say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven. \n\nWhose son is he? "God's son"\nIn other words Jesus says you are right.\n\nWell you know I got to thinking what does it mean to believe he is the son of God? So I kept reading.\n\nIs he being the son of God all we must believe concerning His identity? \n\nJohn 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.\n\nAnd I kept reading.   \n\nJust being the son of God...Is God. Notice here: \nJohn 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth. \n\nWell here Jesus is claiming to be the son of God and God at the same time. \n\nAll Jesus is saying is that he is the same as his parents. Jesus mother was human and father was God. That makes him 100% human and 100% God.\n\nIs that important that Jesus is a 100% God and man? Remember John 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except ye believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.\n\nWhen Jesus came to earth, did he leave his Godhead in Heaven? \n\nColossians 2:9 for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, \nNotice that Jesus is 100% man and 100% God.  \n\nHere God the Father calls his own son God.\n\nHebrews 1:1, 8 God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, \n8 but of the Son [he saith], Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; And the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. \n\nQuote above taken fr
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Jesus told us no one will know the day or the hour. Only God knows. It is up to us to live each day as if the LORD is coming today. You're right, it's not too late for the nonbelievers to claim Jesus as their LORD and Savior. Let us pray for them to open their hearts to the LORD each and every day.
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I testify to you that the following words are TRUE and you can find out for yourself by asking God in the name of Jesus Christ. having faith and real intent.\n\nDeath is not the end. Death is really a beginning—another step forward in Heavenly Father’s plan for His children. \nSomeday, like everyone else, your life on Earth will end and your physical body will die. But your spirit will not die. At the time of physical death, your spirit will go to the spirit world, where you will continue to learn and progress. \n\nDeath is a necessary step in your progression, just as your birth was. Sometime after your death, your spirit and your body will be reunited—never to be separated again. This is called resurrection, and it was made possible by the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Your thinking about reality, reality is an enormously complex subject with no beginning and no end. Reality is attached to mind logic and time has no place with any theory of reality. 15bn years ago has no meaning in reality because that is space time. Space time was thought out by man to give meaning to idea's that started in man's head and used to try to make sense of creation.\nDo we die, we know our body dies because we can prove it, but the energy that fuels the brain and actual brain activity is a different matter. The fact is: we are evolving, our minds are moving forward trying to explain what I am mentioning to you.  One day we will have the answers and find that the speed of light is pretty slow, in the meantime, until the human brain is ready, we will not be able to accept moving about the universe without form or substance. Only when we die will we ever know the truth about reality and even then it will be limited until we have run the full length of the evolutionary scale.\n\nATB Redmonk
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How sweet to apologize. Yes it is true that none of us know when the end time will come. It could come tomorrow or ten years from now. What-ever date it may be, one needs to be ready, but that doesn't mean that one needs to stop living life and not prepare for the future. You said it best.....it is up to God.  God Bless and take care!!