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WHAT IS EONIAN LIFE? PLEASE EXPLAIN.
Dean Peterman:
Dear friends,
I have been reading about this thing called Eonian Life but I have not yet understood what this means. I understand the word eternal or living forever but I can't seem to grasp this concept of Eonian Life. I have read some of the things Ray says about this but I still don't quite understand what this means. I hope you can be patient with my ignorance. What I am reading at Bible Truths is very different than anything I have heard before and it is not always easy to understand. If someone really understands this concept please try to enlighten me.
My lack of understanding is both ironic and frustrating because several months ago I thought I knew a lot. After 20 years of studying the Bible and theology I thought I had all the answers. Now I feel like I am a total fool who has been put back into the first grade. My entire understanding of the Bible was built on mistranslations of words such as hell. However, I have to say that I am glad to know hell does not exist. Although I don't know why it took me so long to figure this out. It is amazing! All of Christendom is built on several mistranslations of the Bilble. This seems extraordinary to me. I feel betrayed and deceived. How could all of these so called scholars I have read over the years have missed the simple fact that hell is a mistranslation of the word Gehenna. To make it worse, they then build an entire religion on it.
Sincerely,
Dean
indianabob:
New Friend Dean Peterman,
Since you are new, this question may be better addressed by a moderator, but I'll give it a try and you can seek better information from others.
Ionian life in its simple definition is 'life of the age' in our situation today it is 'life of the age' to come next. This supposes that God works in steps to carry out His holy plan for mankind and that is important to know because God isn't calling everyone now and most people cannot understand what God is doing in this age because they have not been given the ability. People can read or hear the words of the Bible and the parables that Jesus taught and they just don't make sense. So each individual leans to their own human understanding and we have confusion rather than clarity and truth. God planned it this way to demonstrate that we need Him in everything we do.
Understanding God's plan is not natural and is an individual gift to each person being called. The question we are exploring on Bible Truths is why God does it His way and how we can cooperate with God to obey His perfect law of love and how we can share what we have been given with others that God calls.
As you study the hundreds of pages on the Bible Truths web site it will become clearer to you and the mist of institutional church dogma will be cleared away. The true story is relatively simple and easy to understand once the deception is removed, but you need a really large eraser to delete all the misinformation that we have absorbed over the years. It also helps to have loving counselors to encourage you along the path to true understanding.
Warm regards and welcome to the forum.
Bob
mari_et_pere:
Dean, welcome to the forum! You'll learn alot here so don't be dismayed. Bob said it well in his well put response. Things will become much clearer! I want to comment on something you said:
--- Quote ---All of Christendom is built on several mistranslations of the Bilble.
--- End quote ---
The way I see it, all of Christendom WAS CHANGED based on several mistranslations of the Bible. The "church fathers" had it right, then it changed. Thankfully some precious few have held on to the original truth through the generations, and we here are some of them. ;D
Glad to see you've joined us. :)
Matt
Deborah-Leigh:
Hello Dean
I can empathise and rejoice in your coming out of the heresies, false teachings and deceptions of Mystery Babylon. We all encounter disappointment, shock and pain in this coming out I think but it does wear off as we begin to enjoy the truth that sets free and restores us. It takes time and is a healing process.
The teaching that best answers your enquiries I believe you will find at http://bible-truths.com/aeonion.htm
Just a small observation. You say : I understand the word eternal or living forever...
Eternal has got nothing to do with time. Eternity is not a long period or a never ending period of time. Eternity is a mode of being. If you consider that God is deathless and is the same yesterday today and tomorrow...from everlasting to everlasting you are God Psalm 90 : 2 that mode of BEING is GOD, GODLY, and GODLINESS and that mode of being is eternal.
Ray said in one of his audios that Eternity is like a circle. He also said he may bring more light to this subject at his next Mobile conference. I hope he does as he is able to make the most complex issues straight and simple!
Peace be to you.
Arcturus :)
hillsbororiver:
--- Quote from: Dean Peterman on June 30, 2007, 08:27:58 AM ---
All of Christendom is built on several mistranslations of the Bilble. This seems extraordinary to me. I feel betrayed and deceived. How could all of these so called scholars I have read over the years have missed the simple fact that hell is a mistranslation of the word Gehenna. To make it worse, they then build an entire religion on it.
--- End quote ---
Hello Dean,
First off just think of the Tower of Babel and how God sent confusion to the planners, engineers, artisans, craftsmen and laborers who were building this monument to man's own wisdom and power.
Gen 11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Can you see this as a type/shadow of all the different denominations we presently have?
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
Only a very few are blessed with understanding in this age, it is all of God, no one can take any credit whatsoever for the knowledge they have been granted. Why some and not others? Only God can answer that.
Bob gave a very good explaination as the Lord does His work in "seasons" a time appointed for all things in this glorious plan of salvation for all, the firstfuits early and the big "fall harvest" later. In this present age (all of our natural lives since the Resurrection) He is preparing His elect to be Kings/ Priests to the multitudes who will be refined into Sons & Daughters of God in the next age.
Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Rom 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Rom 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Rom 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
All the world knows within themselves that something is missing, there is a void within that most seek to fill with "things of this earth" not heavenly things, not spiritual things. The void they feel but do not recognize or understand is the desire God has put within all men to be sanctified and refined into Sons of God, in the next age the elect will be with Christ do His work.
Even the prophets of old anxiously awaited this age to come!
1Pe 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
1Pe 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow.
1Pe 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
His Peace and Wisdom to you,
Joe
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