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Heaven is a place of many mansions created by Elohim. But for most of us, it is just a myth which is equally defined as a place that created by our own minds absence of tangible proof but only based upon scriptural belief. The author of the book of Hebrew defines faith as being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. (Hebrew 11:1).
Heaven is a place of many mansions created by Elohim. But for most of us, it is just a myth which is equally defined as a place that created by our own minds absence of tangible proof but only based upon scriptural belief. The author of the book of Hebrew defines faith as being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. (Hebrew 11:1).
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Heaven is a place of many mansions created by Elohim. But for most of us, it is just a myth which is equally defined as a place that created by our own minds absence of tangible proof but only based upon scriptural belief. The author of the book of Hebrew defines faith as being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. (Hebrew 11:1).
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Heaven is a place of many mansions created by Elohim.
But for most of us, it is just a myth which is equally defined as a place that created by our own minds absence of tangible proof but only based upon scriptural belief. The author of the book of Hebrew defines faith as being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. (Hebrew 11:1).
Since Heaven is almost a place of non
verifiable existence, so most people describe its reality with their limited spiritual experiences which could be considered as merely paranormal phenomenon. Clergymen and religious peoples are safe enough to define it as according to their faith authored by the Holy Spirit. Since heaven is so vague, it is no wonder that one third of the inhabitants of this earth have chosen to deny the existence of God and Heaven.
There was an old story which told us that he
was taken up by an angel of the Lord to heaven and to his amazement that none of the inhabitants of heaven affiliated by any creed or religion. This affirms the fact that religions are only for the earthlings whereas heaven is melted in the ocean love, power, and God’s glory. The coexistence of Heaven's inhabitants is weaved by the power of unconditional love. Jesus mentioned Heart Purity as the prerequisite of seeing God in his Sermon of beatitudes'. And that is the prerequisite of heaven which is only attainable through our atonement by Jesus.
All religions provide the laws that dictate our
lives on earth. Therefore, we are contented that religions are truly for the inhabitants of the earth whereas heavens are Spiritual realms without any creed of belief. We might have to wait our afterlife existences in order to see the exact realities of heaven.
In Christianity, the time line from Creation to
Apocalypse tells us that God had protected a special lineage of descendant from Noah- Abraham-Isaac-Israel-David and ended up to Jesus who presented himself as the awaited Messiah who had had fulfilled most of the written prophesies in the scrolls so that there will be SALVATION for the whole fallen descendants of Adam. The Scriptures tell us that a few holy persons had ascended to heaven like Enoch and Prophet Elijah. And that very few cases of ascension might not be enough to describe the reality of heaven as far as empirical-oriented-mind is concerned.
Who are going to enter Heaven?
We know that only God is Omnipresence,
Omniscience, and Omnipotent and no person would be qualified to be in that position to become the ultimate JUDGE of men. If that is the case, then nobody has the right to pin point one's salvation either in going to HELL or to HEAVEN. It would be blasphemous to steal the Judgment Seat that only rightfully belonged to God. Who dare to take the seat on that Chair? At best, one is only permitted to exhort to those other sinners regarding their obligation to adhere the given Commandments of the new covenant.
The case of the dying good thief promised by
Jesus to be in Heaven with Him as mentioned in Luke 23: 39 - 43 challenges the mainstream teachings about entering heaven and it does remind us of our inability of fairness of judgment like God. The so called good thief was far from being good in our eyes since he was, indeed, a first class criminal during Roman times. What were the good thief’s qualifications of being a morally good person? Nothing! And yet he entered heaven...that would be the proof of pure Grace of God.
Though we are prohibited from judging one's
destiny either hell or heaven, it is understandable that parents are obliged to exercise their parenting responsibilities in teaching religions for their children. Since, religion/church is functioning as the lamp stand of acquainting them with the Savior. Cases of changing belief among our children might become the source of temptation to the worrying parents. They are tempted to judge their salvation. We should not be tempted to play the savior’s role since we are only obliged to teach them Christian values and NOT TO SAVE them from Hell. It would be definitely wrong if we assume THE ROLE OF THE SAVIOR since it is only rightfully belonged to Jesus. It would bring us unhappiness if we fail to understand this limitation of our roles as Christian parents.
For those who don't want to go to heaven,
that would be fine. It is understood. As descendants of a fallen Adam, we are dominantly gravitated to the things of the earth through our five senses. Most of us define LIFE via FIVE SENSES. Beyond that five senses would be meaningless.
We do not have that sixth sense to perceive
and to see the realities of Heaven. We are very much wrapped with this physical- material realities and thus blocking our spiritual eyes in seeing and believing the existence of heaven.
I wouldn't be surprised if people don't even
bother about heaven since it is better for them to FOCUS life on this earth, at least, they would be satisfied with secular definition of life which are namely Amassing FORTUNE, Gaining FAME, Enjoying PLEASURE, and Seeking POWER (any type of power as according to your choices). If any of us attain those 2 F-2 P syndromes then we would say that we have proven our SUCCESSESS and WORTHINESS in this temporary life on earth. Our 5-senses- orientation gravitates our struggles merely on material-physical survival on earth.
But for those who believe in the existence of
heaven, our life on earth have to be defined relevantly according to the teachings of the Scriptures otherwise we would be unhappy and deluded. The gravity of material- physical survival causes us to prioritize earth's matters. We might also place that heaven’s businesses as the least priorities due to the demands of proving our worthiness on earth according to SECULAR definitions.
Most of us find one foot stepping on earth
and another foot in heaven and that divides our FOCUS of life on earth. Our dispersed FOCUS does not make any good to us in MAKING life on earth. Priority is the reason why most of us don’t even bother about the matter of going to heaven. The idea of heaven is only impeding our beloved activities of life on earth. In fact, heaven is only APPEALING to those who are enlightened by the HOLY SPIRIT. So, I think we don't have to force Heaven's matters upon others. It won't be an attractive subject to talk about. For those who believe in the testimonies by the SPIRIT, by the BLOOD and by the WATER, heaven would be the SOURCE of Hope, Faith and Love...
Please...don't ask me the tips of entering
heaven for that subject would be better answered by the religious holy Clergymen or by those who claimed to be coexisting with Christ Jesus and Adonai Avinu.
John 14:6 Jesus says, “I am the Way, the truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.