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Dean Peterman:
Dear friends,

I really appreciate all of your kind words.  I apologize for being so sensitive.  My life feels like it is a total wreck right now so I feel very weak and over sensitive. After much study I just came to the conclusion that hell is not real and this ripped apart my world.  Not that I wanted people to go to hell but this realization caused me to conclude that everything I have been believing is a lie.  I think you can understand how that can shake up someones world. 

 Rodger sent me an e-mail to apologize and I was happy to put all of this behind us.  He misunderstood me and that is understandable.   I have the type of personality that has the tendency to beat a dead horse into the ground.  That is just how I learn.  You also have to understand that giving up my belief in the immortal soul is not easy.  Although I am 90% convinced I have to be 100% convinced before I have the confidence to give it up.  This is a very, very scarey thing for me.  The thought of dying is pretty scarey.  I mean the thought of really dying.  Not going into the spirit world but being really, really dead.  So before I am ready to say I will be really, really dead I have to be sure the Bible really, really teaches this.  That is why I ask so many questions.  I need to be sure.  So I will continue to study this.

So many have asked me to stay that I have decided it would not be fair to leave and disappoint so many people.  So I am going to stay and continuing learning.

Sincerely,

Dean

YellowStone:
Hi Dean,

I am so glad that you did decide to stay. :)

I do want to mention one little thing about death. It is timeless; there will be know thinking or counting seconds. it will so much like what Paul said. In a twinkling of an eye, you be awoken.

I am sure Lazarus had no concept that he had been dead for 3 days.

Trust me, when you reach this understanding. Death is neither dark, lonely or foreboding. Rather death is simply a doorway to another life/dimmension.

I kinow there is Scripture that supports this, but it is early :)

May God continue to reveal his truth to you.

Love,
Darren

hillsbororiver:
http://bible-truths.com/death.htm

Hi Dean,

Glad to see you back with us, God has a way of grabbing us by the shoulders and giving our whole spiritual being a thorough shaking. Breaking down the man made doctrines within like the shards of a shattered piece of ceramics.

Have a look at the above article, I pray it gives you peace & comfort.

Joe

Craig:
Dean,

What you are experiencing now is totally normal (at least it was for me)  When God started tearing down my house, I was as scared as I've ever been in my life and didn't get much sleep for 2 months.  But it was all so worth it.  I suspect you will find that God tends to open the floodgate once he shows you His truths.

Blessings!

Craig

Kat:

Hi Dean,

I know this is a hard pill to swallow, but aren't you really glad it is totally different then what the church teaches  :)

Here is a scripture that Paul is teaching the Corinthians that there is a resurrection, in verse 18 he states without a resurrection even believers are lost.  If we never really die how could we be resurrected?

1Co 15:12  Now, since our message is that Christ has been raised from death, how can some of you say that the dead will not be raised to life?
v. 13  If that is true, it means that Christ was not raised;
v. 14  and if Christ has not been raised from death, then we have nothing to preach and you have nothing to believe.
v. 15  More than that, we are shown to be lying about God, because we said that he raised Christ from death---but if it is true that the dead are not raised to life, then he did not raise Christ.
v. 16  For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised.
v. 17  And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is a delusion and you are still lost in your sins.
v. 18  It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost.
v. 19  If our hope in Christ is good for this life only and no more, then we deserve more pity than anyone else in all the world.

mercy, peace, and love
Kat

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