Heaven or Hell - The Afterlife (Life After Death)

Just finished reading Lisa Miller's article "Far From Heaven" on Newsweek. Quickly reviewing, I liked how she ended with a call to 'humble ourselves before all that we don't understand.' I didn't like how she did not go further into Jesus' answer to the Sadducees regarding life after death. (BTW, the article's got it wrong: the Sadducees were not asking about the man with seven wives; they were asking about the woman with seven husbands in succession). In the biblical passage, when the Sadducees (who did not believe in life after death) asked Jesus regarding whose wife the woman will be in the afterlife since she has been the wife of seven brothers in succession, Jesus answered, pointing out the ignorance of the Sadducees in knowing God's Word, "In the resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage." Jesus' answer sheds light on what Lisa Miller missed to include in her article -- the biblical view on heaven and hell.

The article includes various personal views of heaven: 'laying my head on my Grandma's lap', 'driving a yellow Cadillac in heaven', 'eating peppermint ice cream', 'enjoying the company of 72 virgins', etc. I wish the article would have contrasted those views to the view of the afterlife revealed in God's Word: Heaven is a real place where we spend eternity in God's presence, and hell is a real place where we are eternally separated from God's presence.

Therefore, the news that God has provided a way for us, through King Jesus' loving sacrifice, to be able to spend eternity with Him is indeed the Greatest News ever.

iRecommend: That's My King!

I saw this for the first time at the 2010 FBCJax Pastor's Conference. This video is not mine; I got it from Vimeo. This video is set to the famous sermon by Dr. S. M. Lockridge.

Unchangeable Truth

i was listening to NPR, and they were interviewing someone who was doing a rendition of 'Messiah', and she said that the 'Messiah' performed today has some differences frm the original and that it has 'evolved.'
well, it's nothing new; it happens in many fields. even the current tech world is constantly changing. very few, if any, still use MS Windows 3.0.
well, it's not just in the comp field, but also in science and medicine. sometimes, what we always believed to be true changes. but, there r also some unchangeable truths.
some truths do not change. it can't. if there is no unchangeable truth, then there is no use/meaning in what we say/write/do.
i believe that what has always been will always be. unchangeable truths are never dependant on our understanding for their existence. no matter what we believe or understand, the unchangeable truth is always going to remain the same. our understanding of the truth may change, but the Eternal Truth does not.
now, why did i say all this for? i don't know . . . may be just to give some a headache or something to think abt :)