Judgment Day - Glorified Bodies?
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Yes, because Jesus Christ conquered physical death when he was resurrected, ALL people everywhere will be resurrected too and receive glorified and perfect bodies.  It is His gift to the world.  What happens next to all of us with our glorified and resurrected bodies is the question.  We will then all be judged according to our works.  It will be a perfect judgement based on the amount of knowledge we had and what we did with it.  Then we will all be separated into a degree of glory that we can handle and that we deserve.  There are many layers of what is traditionally known as heaven and hell, and we will all get exactly what we know we deserve.
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Isn't this quite disingenuous? If the verse were talking about a way of identifying a living human being, then perhaps you'd have a point, though a very strained one at that.\n\nBut, isn't this verse about whether one has a body or not in paradise? And isn't it saying that the body is, effectively, put back together, from the head to the tips of the toes..... or fingers?\n\nYou've taken words and then forced them on to something that is utterly non-applicable. Isn't that a sin?
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I guess this is the Y!A Mid-Life Crisis, huh?  Monotony sets in; we start to wonder Why Am I Here, Is This All There Is, Wouldn't I Look Good In A Ferrari Testarossa Driven by George Clooney -- no? Oh. I guess that last part is just me.\n\nThen again, I've just explained to some newbie why his belief in Count Chocula is not entirely misplaced, so long as he can point to the Empty Cereal Bowl and the Half-Full Cereal Box and hold fast to the icons of his faith.  http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiLB84hpfH1JTw3rOYFz92LAFQx.?qid=1006051917644\n\nAt least I think that's what I said.  I lose track sometimes.  Mid-Life Crisis, y'know.\n\nBut I'm gonna hang in for awhile; you never know when a Ferrari may come 'round the next corner (or who may be in the driver's seat)....
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Jesus was a perfect man in mind and body.  All the portrayals I have seen of Jesus are hard to look at, scraggely hair, skinny,sunken in cheeks. That is not perfect. We know he had to have been well built to endure the beating he took before his death. It's hard to imagine what he looks like but I believe that since he was a perfect man he was beautiful beyond words.
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Your avatar is BadGod....I think you are trying to make Christians look bad.  That stinks!!
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I don't know the specific punishment for that on the day of judgement but I do know the reason why we have to wear that which I think you already know.\n\nShake hand.. I guess it's gonna be quite tough. I take it you're a corporate women or someone like that? Anyway, whether or not you live in west, aren't you suppose to wear hijab or something to cover the hair? So, I think most people would already know your religion. Um, if they're not.. I guess you can always smile back and nod your head a little as the response to their gesture. I don't think you would have to launch into speech or something, smile to them is polite enough. Just go through the real business already. :)\n\n^_^ I hope my answer helps though I don't have any experience living in west.
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In the real world, no.\n\nSubstitutionary justice is no justice at all...it's sick and it's a cynical way to balance ledgers.  Hell, you see some of that going on in the Middle East with groups killing one another:  Someone looses a child to a rival tribe's assassin, he goes and murders some other member of the rival tribe in revenge, the sibling of the murder victim goes out and machineguns a bus of the first mans' tribe...and it never ends.\n\nThe whole thing started with the notion of blood sacrifice to God to atone for sins...goats, sheep, and so forth.  Did anyone notice that when Cain supposedly offered God some of his hard-grown wheat and Abel offered an animal he had caught, God liked Abel's sacrifice more?  God had a fetish for blood, I guess.  And burning flesh too.  Until Jesus's got spilled, then he suddenly got squeamish about it.  \n\nHe didn't die for anyone's sins:  He was killed because he was politically inconvienent and became a martyr to his own cause.  That's all.  The rest of the nonsense got tacked on later.
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Both, in a manner of speaking.\n\nRedemption brings an escape from the wrath of God on Judgment Day.\n\nAnd 1 Cor. 10:13 tells us that there is an escape for us to take that will bring redemption. Jesus is that escape.
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I have often wondered this, too. I found a pretty good article on the subject, if you would click on the link below. It doesn't really promote it, but it doesn't condemn it either. It, basically, lets you take a look at the reasons in your heart for doing it, and where you stand with God. \n\nThe Bible warns us against getting wrapped up in our looks, but it also says that we should try to make ourselves look good for our husbands (different words of course).\n\nIn response to Catlins Playhouse's remark, sin is sin. I say that because of her comment "do you think God is going to be mad at you when all these other people..." God will judge us based on His laws and the convictions He places in our hearts. If you go to have cosmetic surgery and you feel the Holy Spirit urging you not to, but you do it anyway, you will be judged on that. \n\nI'm not telling you not to do it. I think you should pray about it. God will let you know.
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We are not suppose to judge people on anything. The Bible saids we go by the fruits that they bear. God will do the judging.
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I am a Christian, however I find those types of displays lame, and probably going to make non-believers think we are losers.  Bumperstickers are pretty much lame.  Although I did see a Jesus fish once that actually had legs, and instead of saying "Jesus" below it, it said "Darwin".  Ok, that is even funny to me, why take these things serious?
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They are works of imagination. For one, Jesus being the son of a Nazarene, would have looked like a Middle Eastern person, not the brown haired blue eyed person that is typically portrayed by Western artists.\n\nFurthermore, Isaiah 53:2 (Christians presume that this chapter prophesieses of Jesus - for e.g. 53:1 is quoted in John 12:38) states that "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him" (this is from the New International Version). You could take this to mean that Jesus was not good looking either. Another interpretation could be that he did not look 'royal', but regardless, he was probably an average looking Joe.\n\nI'm not sure if I would want to fault the artists for their inaccurate portrayals of Jesus. Perhaps a misplaced attempt at depicting those aspects that we find admirable. In the end, the physical appearance is immaterial, it is what the man stands for that is important.
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Dear Ryefleit, This is an honest question with an honest answer. The Bible makes clear that there is a heaven and Hell. The Bible say's God is a Judge who will sit on his throne and judge our sins. he has revealed this fact to us through his Holy word. How will you do on Judgement day?\n \nLet me ask you a few questions.................\n\nHave you ever lied (even once--fibs, white lies, etc.)? Ever stolen (anything--the value is irrelevant)? Jesus said, "Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery already with her in his heart." Have you ever looked with lust? If you have said "Yes" to these three questions, by your own admission, you are a lying, thieving, adulterer at heart; and we’ve only looked at three of the Ten Commandments. Nothing you’ve ever done is hid from His holy eyes. Will you be innocent or guilty on the Day of Judgment? Listen to your conscience. You know that you will be guilty, and therefore end up in Hell. That’s not God’s will. He provided a way for you and I to be forgiven. \nHe sent His Son to take our punishment: "God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." He was bruised for our iniquities. Jesus then rose from the dead and defeated death. \nYour own so-called “goodness” can’t get you into heaven any more than mine could.  Jesus is the only way to Heaven. He is the "Door," the only "mediator." There is salvation in no other name, so pray something like this: "Dear God, I repent of all of my sins (confess them). This day I put my trust in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Please forgive me and grant me your gift of everlasting life. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen."
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You are a piece of garbage.\n\nDon't worry about churches or the carnal so much, worry about your soul or spiruitual things.\n\nCleanse your mind because it's ugly. God it's UGLY !!!
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No i don't believe so. Judgment day is when Jesus will have a second coming and destroy the world. Then we will be judged on our behavior and then sent to Heaven, Purgatory, or Hell. True we could be living in Hell as i write this but i do not believe that this is so. What about the priests? If we are in Hell then we can't see the people in Heaven and surely a priest would be in Heaven? What about the Pope? See if we were in Hell do you really think Satin would allow religious people into Hell? With the fiery pits and pain and suffering? Also if the world was indeed already destroyed why create a kingdom that looks alike to both Hell and Heaven? Do you know of the Colosseum? or of the Sistine Chapel? why would those be in Heaven and Hell?
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Should We Never Judge?\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n"Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment"; and "You have rightly judged."; and "Yes, and why, even of yourselves, do you not judge what is right?"; and "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves". (Jesus' Words in John 7:24; Luke 7:43, 12:57 and Matt. 23:15)\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSummary\n\nThere is an extremely serious error that is being believed by the vast majority of people caught up in christian religion. This error is literally making those folks unwilling and unable to discern truth. And what is this error? It is believing that all "judgment" is wrong. If this is true, then what is to be made of Jesus' Words above? In the verses above, Jesus clearly commands people to judge, commends people for judging, and judges himself.\n\nThe key point to understand is that not all judgment is wrong, just various types of judgment. The types of judgment that are wrong according to Jesus are condemnation, as well as hypocritical and self-righteous judgment. On the other hand, right judgment is commended by Jesus as we see above. Right judgment includes the judging of truth versus falsehood. The sincere, serious and sober judgment of our own sins, as well as the gentle, and compassionate judgment and correction of other's beliefs or sins.\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nWhat is the matter with 'judging'?\n\nTragically, Satan is doing a masterful job in christianity's organizations in regard to confusing people over the issue of "judgment". People have been lead to believe that it is "un-loving" to correct someone who is in error, whether by word or deed. Certainly many have contributed to Satan's lie of "don't judge anyone" by being harsh, ungracious or unmerciful in their judgments. It is easy for a person - after being excoriated by a modern day Pharisee who is telling them that they are going to hell if they don't believe something that Jesus doesn't even address - to be pushed to believe that all "judgment" is wrong.\n\nIn like manner, many more have contributed to Satan's lie by taking the position that anything said to correct someone, no matter how gently done, is "ungracious" or unloving. These folks are the counterfeit believers who dogmatically state that all judgment is wrong (except their own of course!), especially the kind that points out the falsehoods they are believing. I can't count how many times have I heard the accusation, "oh, brother, you should not say that those who believe the doctrine's of the christian church are in error - that is judging them and Jesus says we are not to judge others. You are being divisive by your judgment. You need to come to an understanding of Jesus' love…"   Notice how I am judged as "un-loving" comparing Christianities beliefs with Jesus' Words.  I could be the kindest, most gentle, caring, compassionate, giving, selfless person on the planet (which I am not), but if I believe that the teachings of christianity lead people away from Jesus, then I am judged as "un-loving" and usually much worse.  Ironic, isn't it?  That when I try to point out how a teaching of Jesus contradicts a doctrine of christianity, I will be judged as a heretic or worse?  So, while I try to look at a belief that someone holds, and they don't like the truth that I might be bringing, they are only too quick to break their own "don't be judgmental" belief to condemn my person.\n\nGuess who is being judged as un
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The traditional Christian view is that man has a soul that was created and given by God at conception. \n\nWhen the body dies the soul lives on. The soul is eternal. Later, at the Great White Throne Judgment, all men will be judged according to deeds done in the body (i.e., while on earth).\n\nThe reward, for deeds done in the body, result in one of two eternal, permanent conditions.  Those who  deeds reveal they were haters of God and disobedient will be cast into Hell where their souls will endure everlasting torment for eternity.\n\nThose whose deeds reveal they obeyed the Gospel and lived it out while on earth (soley because of grace), will be rewarded with a new glorified body, and they will live in the New Earth where Jesus will reign forever as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.\n\nThus, for the Christian, death is but a temporary period in which the soul is separated from the body one will receive at the final resurrection.