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The next life, or the next life?
indianabob:
Hi folks,
Hoping to not oversimplify such an important subject regarding the future fate of children and those who live into adulthood after suffering before they died, but here goes.
Those who died at age one year could be resurrected at age one and cared for just as we would any orphan today. Or their own resurrected parent may be able to care for them??
Those who suffered trauma and had a less than beneficial childhood with all types of pain and loss would be resurrected at the age at which they died and continue to live and learn righteousness.
In both cases the resurrected person would benefit from continuous loving care during the time period remaining before their change to spiritual would come. (That time and circumstance is as yet unknown)
It is rightly said that "love" conquers all and of course then God's perfect love applied to the life of such a resurrected person would conquer all of their human fears.
Yes it would take a miracle. Yes the miracle could be instantaneous or it could be applied over time as the resurrected person grew in grace and knowledge of our Lord.
Let's keep it simple so that even a child would understand.
Is anything impossible for God?
Indiana Bob
Dennis Vogel:
Whatever, it will be absolutely fair. Why even concern ourselves with these issues? Trust God to do the right thing.
Dave in Tenn:
1Co 3:11-15 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
2Co 5:18,19 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Mat 6:12-15 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Isa 11:4-8 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Isa 11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Isa 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Isa 11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Isa 11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
Isa 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Is it such a stretch to believe that this "ministry of reconciliation" should result in the peace, and love, and forgiveness, and brotherhood of human 'villains' and 'victims'? Every blue moon, we actually may see these things NOW, and the earth is not yet full of the knowledge of the LORD.
Kat:
Well I think there are Scripture that speak of this, but just like all that Ray brought out in his articles they are hidden to us until God reveals it.
But we do know that Christ will rule and the world will be a safe place, no more crime and all the terrible things that go along with this corrupt world. But Hayley I do not believe that all of our past will be wiped clean, no indeed, as we must give account.
Rom 14:12 So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.
All that people have learned in this life is for a purpose, even the wicked and evil things. We all will be a witness to the fact that carnal human being can not do good.
Gen 6:5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every intent of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
Rom 3:10 As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one;
This life is for a "experience in evil" to give us all a big douse, to show us that apart from God we give in to our carnal lust at every turn. No one will be able to stand before God and say I am good, we all have proven that cannot be true, we all have record of that throughout history. This generation is no better than that generation that God spoke it of before the floor, we are all carnal dung, as Paul put it.
There are people who have lived years of crime and debauchery and are intent on wickedness. Those people are the ones that I see as being the most tormented when raised up, because they will not be allowed to continued in their evil ways. So you can imagine have your every wrong move and even your thoughts corrected continually by the elect must be like.
Now gk, I do believe that if a person that may have suffered great injustice and pain in this life, even through their childhood, when raised back up to a physical life and are treated with love and nurtured and cared for and taught the right way to live, their scars and anguish will be healed. It may take quite some time, but there will be a whole age devoted to this. The reason most people cannot heal from trauma in this life is because they are not given an environment in which they can, they either remain in or are put back in the same situation that caused it in the first or some times put in as bad or a worse situation, like foster care. People do heal even in this life if cared for and nurtured.
There is so much that we can see in the Scripture about that, if you think about it.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Deborah-Leigh:
~ With God, all things are possible. All means all. ~
Things means, everything.
There is no-thing, that is not a thing.
Anything, that is measureable, is a thing.
God is not measurable. That's where we are going....into His Image.... :)
Arc
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