Will there be a historical presevervation society in heaven?
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No, sorry.  You just get to sit in the lap of Jesus for all eternity.\n\nI'm sure his throne is a magnificent piece of architecture though!\n\n\nDon't listen to the others though, just focus on his lap.
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I do not believe that heaven exists as a place that you go after you die.  I think that Heaven is a myth based on a desparate desire for people to live forever, like gods, which is part of almost every religion and has been for thousands of years.  \n\nThere is nothing new about wanting eternal life and a semblance of omnicience.  Power and knowledge are the two things that humans want more than anything, so it makes sense taht we would create a myth which involves us living forever and gaining a deep understanding of the universe after we die.
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Yes! If you accept him as your Lord and Personal Savior I will definately see ya in Heaven. Hey, it's true. And judging by the Bible, the judgement day is going to come anytime soon. New diseases will occur, earthquakes and natural disasters will be frequent, and I think it's coming to an end soon. Accept Him now!
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This question has been asked for hundreds of years since the beginning of recorded history.  No earthling knows the answer.  My theory follows, but it is long and you must read it with an open mind to radical concepts... \n\n\n “WHAT IF” \n\nFIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I CANNOT ATTEND A CONVENTIONAL CHURCH WITHOUT BEING HYPOCRITICAL, BUT I FIRMLY BELIEVE IN GOD, JESUS, PRAYER, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, LIFE AFTER DEATH, AND BASIC CHRISTIANITY.  ALSO, IN IT’S UNALTERED AND ORIGINAL FORM, THE BIBLE WAS PROBABLY A MUCH MORE ACCURATE, THOUGH SIMPLISTIC, DOCUMENT THAN EXISTS TODAY.\n\nHOWEVER, IT IS MY OPINION, THAT THROUGH THE SEVERAL DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS, REVISIONS, VERSIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF BIBLICAL INFORMATION BY PERSONS WHO WERE IGNORANT TO MODERN SCIENCE, SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES, AND TECHNOLOGY, THE TRUE MEANINGS AND ACCURATE INTERPRETATION OF THE EVENTS RECORDED ORIGINALLY HAVE BEEN LOST.  TO ME, THE BIBLE WAS INTENDED TO BE AN HISTORICAL DIARY OF A TRULY REMARKABLE VISIT AND A SERIES OF PROFOUND EVENTS THAT DID IN FACT OCCUR.  IT IS SAD THAT MAN WAS NOT AT THE TIME, INTELLECTUALLY CAPABLE OF ACCURATELY COMPREHENDING AND RECORDING WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAW.  BECAUSE OF THIS, MANS EARLY, AND ONGOING, INTERPRETATION OF RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE HAS TAKEN MANY AVENUES OF APPROACH, AND IN PRESENT REALITY, APPEARS TO ME TO HAVE BEEN INITIALLY BASED ON NAIVE CONJECTURE STIMULATED BY DIRECT EXPOSURE TO SEVERAL INSTANCES OF PROFOUND AND UNEXPLAINABLE PHENOMENON THAT OCCURRED BEFORE A MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ABILITIES WAS DEVELOPED.  HOWEVER, AS ONE LOOKS AT THE HISTORY OF MAJOR RELIGIOUS FACTIONS, IT IS APPARENT THAT ALTHOUGH THE INTERPRETATION AND FOLLOWING OF THIS DOCTRINE WAS GREATLY VARIED, THERE WERE SOME ABSOLUTES THAT DID NOT CHANGE. \n\nSOME EXAMPLES ARE: ONE SUPREME BEING OR ENTITY SUCH AS GOD, BUDDHA, MOHAMMED, AND THE GREAT SPIRIT.  ALSO, THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH, GOOD AND EVIL, AND RULES THAT MUST BE FOLLOWED TO THE BEST OF ONES ABILITY TO ACHIEVE ACCEPTANCE TO THE HIGHER LEVEL OF EXISTENCE AFTER PHYSICAL DEATH. \n\nTODAY, WE KNOW THAT THE UNIVERSE IS IMMENSE.  WE ALSO KNOW THAT GALAXIES WITHIN OUR UNIVERSE GO ON AND ON, AND THERE ARE PROBABLY MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF THEM IN EXISTENCE.  MOST OF THESE GALAXIES CONTAIN UNCOUNTABLE NUMBERS OF STARS. (WHICH ARE SUNS)  SOME OF THESE STARS ARE HUGE.  OTHERS ARE TINY.  SOME ARE VERY NEW AND SOME ARE EXTREMELY ANCIENT.  SOME HAVE BURNED OUT, COLLAPSED UPON THEMSELVES, AND HAVE BECOME "BLACK HOLES IN SPACE, WHILE OTHERS HAVE EXPLODED IN SUPER-NOVA.  BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, SOME ARE ABOUT THE SAME SIZE UNIFORMITY AND CONSISTENCY OF OUR SUN.  THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, THERE ARE PROBABLY TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS OF STARS THAT ARE VERY MUCH THE SAME AS OUR SUN.  IF ONE BELIEVES IN EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENT LIFE, ONE CANNOT LOOK INTO A CLEAR NIGHT SKY WITHOUT FEELING EXTREMELY HUMBLED AND INSIGNIFICANT.  IT IS MY BELIEF THAT WE ARE MOST CERTAINLY, NOT THE ONLY RELIGIOUS AND INTELLIGENT LIFE IN OUR UNIVERSE.\n\n   WHAT IF: \n\nALL INTELLIGENT LIFE IS CREATED IN GOD’S IMAGE NO MATTER WHAT PHYSICAL CONFIGURATION IT HAPPENS TO BE IN. \n\n\n\nWHAT IF: \n\n"GOD”, THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, ELECTED TO ESTABLISH INTELLIGENT LIFE ON A FEW OF THOSE PLANETS AS HE DID HERE ON EARTH? \n\nWHAT IF: \n\nCREATION AND EVOLUTION ARE THE SAME.  THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR DAY IS MANS EARTHLY CONCEPT OF TIME BECAUSE IT FITS THE PHYSICS OF EARTH’S ROTATION IN ORBIT AROUND THE SUN, AND THE SPINNING OF THE PLANET ON IT’S AXIS. \n\nWHAT IF: \n\nONE OF GOD' S DAYS EQUALS A BILLION OR SO OF OUR YEARS?  TO PUT THIS INTO PERSPECTIVE, COMPARE A SINGLE ATOM TO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, THEN COMPARE THE AVERAGE TIME REQUIRED FOR THE ELECTRONS (PLANETS) TO ORBlT AROUND THE NUCLEUS (SUN) AND THEN THINK OF THE SIZE/TIME RELATIONSHIP COMPARING OUR SOLAR SYSTEM TO THAT ATOM.  THEN COMPARE OUR TINY SOLAR SYSTEM, AS AN ATOM, TO THE IMMENSITY OF THE UNIVERSE.  SURELY, UNIVERSAL TI
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Some of the masonic societies could be consider as a meta religious society.   Rosicrucians even more.
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You pose an interesting theological question regarding "eternal security/OSAS".
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The view from history would be "yes."  Many of the historical Jesus' teachings were related to reforming the practice of Judaism to be more assimilationist with the predominent Roman/Hellenistic culture in the region during the period of his life.\n\nSince he was interesting in reforming practice to "fit in," he might also be interested in reforming his looks to "fit in," as well.
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Isn't it comical seeing people trying to explain spiritual matters when they are not guided in the least by a living prophet or modern scripture.\n\nI have a firm, unshakeable knowledge that the Lord restored His kingdom to the earth in 1830 when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was organized.  It contains the priesthood of Jesus Christ, restored by John the Baptist in 1829 and Peter, James and John, that same year.  It has modern prophets who can communicate the mind, the will, and the voice of the Lord to this generation.  It has a second witness for Jesus Christ--The Book of Mormon.  While most religions contain some truth and some good things, they lack much of what was lost between the death of Christ and the apostles and the raising up of the Prophet Joseph Smith in the early 19th century.
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Good question!!  I believe all the prophets (and many other people) from the Old Testament will be in heaven.  Like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Isaiah, Elijah, John the Baptist...etc.
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no.\nthere was a priory. but it was just a religious sect that eventaully died off within a few hundred years, by the 1300's.\nthe papers the book talks about are forgeries.
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you're right. not all will go to heaven.\ni mean.. why did the bible say the meek will inherit the earth then?\nthere are two possible hopes then, either heaven reigning with Christ and god, or the eternal life in perfection on earth, as god originally intended.\nthat arrogant (holier than thou) attitude was present with some of the pharisee that Jesus spoke with
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Yes, Actually I support this view, and indeed I have answered as such in previous questions despite being a staunch atheist.\n\nI think that the historical jesus was a good man, who had good ideas about how to behave and conduct oneself.  However, I don't believe it had anything to with a 'higher power' or indeed anything supernatural.\n\nThere are many good inspirational works from people in history.  I for one have a library of Chinese Philosophy centering around Daoism mainly from BCE.
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There is no pre-tribulation rapture, as many in Christendom teach.  Notice in Revelation 20:4 WHO are in the first resurrection which occurs simultaneously with the "catching away" of live saints...THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BEHEADED FOR REFUSING THE MARK OF THE BEAST. \n\nBelievers in Christ WILL go through the tribulation and many will be killed for bearing the testimony of Jesus Christ.  There are concentration camps all over America that will be used as internment camps.  Some are equipped with gas chambers, and many already are furnished with guillotines, for execution of all resisters and dissenters of the New World Order, which will be under UN "law".  \n\nThere is ZERO scriptural support for a "two-part" return of Christ...NONE, ZIP, NADA.\n\nThe first resurrection occurs at the same time as the "catching away" which is at Christ's return to earth which is AFTER the tribulation.  We will be changed in an instant! to glorified bodies like Christ's and receive immortality and incorruptibility.  We will meet Jesus Christ in the air, and accompany Him to earth where He will rule for 1000 years.  The saints will rule and reign with Him.\n\nMany will have been killed when God pours out His wrath upon all those that oppose Him and there will be much work to do.  Those who did not take the mark of the beast and who were also not "saved" will remain on earth to repopulate and be taught God's law.  There will be peace under this new order of things...a far cry from Satan's counterfeit New World Order that will be very short-lived.\n\nSatan will be bound during the millennium so that he cannot deceived people.\n\nAfter the millenium, the rest of the dead (unbelievers) will be raised to fleshly bodies to once again dwell on the earth.  Many who never heard the gospel or who were not able to understand it will have an opportunity to hear and believe and be saved.  This is the Great White Throne judgment period.\n\nSatan will be loosed for a season to deceive the world.  Many will follow him once again.  The final battle will ensue and Satan and his followers will be destroyed.  All enemies of God will cease to exist forevermore.\n\nThis is just a very brief sketch of all of the prophetic events yet to take place.
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No human ever considered living in heaven until Jesus mentioned that yet-future possibility just hours before he was impaled.\n\nJehovah's Witnesses understand the Scriptures to teach that exactly 144,000 humans will join Christ Jesus as kings and priests to administer God's Kingdom (which will soon replace all earthly governments) after Armageddon.\n(Daniel 2:44) God of heaven will set up a kingdom... It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite\n(Revelation 14:1) Lamb [Jesus] standing upon the Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand\n(Revelation 20:6) they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him\n\nOver whom will they rule? Over the vast majority of mankind, most of whom will have been raised from the dead after Armageddon.\n(John 11:23,24) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”\n(Acts 24:15) There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.\n\nUntil that resurrection, there is no suffering in "hell", or the grave. Sometime after the resurrection, death and "hell" will themselves be destroyed.\n(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all\n(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]\n(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire\n\nAlmighty Jehovah God selects those few who have the heavenly calling from among godfearing worshippers, including many who were never Jehovah's Witnesses. Today, each true worshipper "feels" his own hope and each person's hope remains unquestioned by his fellow Christians. Still the vast majority (literally more than 99.9%*) of Jehovah's Witnesses expect an EARTHLY hope, the same hope given to Adam and Eve.\n(Genesis 1:28) God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill THE EARTH and subdue it [caps added]\n(Genesis 2:17) You must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die [so never eating from that tree means never dying]\n\nInterestingly, the Scriptures are full of references to this earthly hope.\n(Psalms 37:11) 'the meek will possess the earth'\n(Proverbs 2:21) 'upright will reside in the earth'\n(Isaiah 45:18) 'God formed the earth to be inhabited'\n(Matthew 5:5) 'the mild will inherit the earth'\n(Revelation 21:3) The tent of God is with mankind\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20001001/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/w/2003/11/15/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20031115/article_02.htm
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Not in this lifetime. I don't really want to go to heaven anyway. I hear it's very crowded with those Jesus freaks.
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Of course there are. There are millions of inhabited worlds and all are on the path to eternal life. We'll even get to meet some of them as we continue our journey.
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several things will happen before the tribulation. most have happened or are happening right now!\n1. II Tim 2:2 humanistic pride will run wild" men will be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud..."\n2. 2 tim 2:3 have an in tolerance to things that are good"unholy.... lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.\n3. 2 Tim 2:5 hypocritical(having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof.\nall this states the condition of man in the end times.\n4. 2 Tim 4:4 unable to handle real preaching "they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.\n\nbut just before the tribulation will be the rapture.\nI Thess 4:16,17 "the Lord shall desend with a shout.and we which are alive...will be caught up together...in the clouds in the air to meet the Lord in the air.\ni hope this helps