I believe Scripture clearly suggests that your father, who’s now in Heaven, is witnessing God’s unfolding plan on earth.
If you do not believe in a possibility of repentance after death, and if you do not believe in eventual annihilation of the damned, then God has set up a system of unanticipated eternal torture from which there is no escape. If this is true, it says something about God: that He does to His enemies something far worse than the most evil human ever did to another human—eternal torture. But I cannot accept this because God is love.
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Only the elect can be saved; and, no one who is elect ever reaches death not having responded to ...
If when we die we are judged and go immediately to the intermediate Heaven as Randy states, how can Revelation 20:5 be true? This verse is talking about the transition period between the intermediate and the Eternal Heaven. Verse 5 is pre-eternal Heaven.
It is not forever—we will be reunited in Heaven and never have to worry about leaving each other again, and my dad will be able to walk by me with no pain.
Though we mourn, our mourning should be mixed with worship of God and thanksgiving for the life of the loved one who has died.
Randy addressing he questions, "Why are people afraid to die?" at the Seed Company Invitational 2007.
So we will not be complete, fully perfected human beings until our sinless spirit is joined to a body no longer under the curse in the resurrection.
I agree that God’s timing was perfect and He is the one who prompted you to be with your loved one when she died.
Common Elements of Near Death and “After Death” Experiences
In this minute long clip, Randy talks about how our hearts or minds are to be continuously set on these “things above” where Christ is in heaven, not on “earthly things” (Col. 3:1-4).
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