Actually Gina Ray himself always used what the church taught to refute what they believed. We are not promoting what they teach, just trying to answer a reasonable question that micah7:9 had and maybe others as well. The church uses their Bibles well to promote their beliefs and it is helpful to us sometimes to look at the verses they use, so to understand the deception better.
Here are a few verses that the church use to give there members hope for a heavenly home. All from the KJV.
Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Php 3:20-21 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
2Co 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
1Co 15:51-55 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
Luke 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom:
Mat 17:2-3 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Well that is some that they use and just think if these verses are presented in isolation (yes they take things out of context, imagine that) and a sermon built around them to prove it the way they see it. We are the very few blessed with having been shown the truth. They rest are deceived, the translations are misleading to a degree and it is intended to be that way.
mercy, peace and love
Kat