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If I got a chance to talk to Him, I'd probably just talk about anything. I don't think I really have any questions or anything. Just getting to speak to Him in person would be enough.

I would ask Him for forgiveness and/or for a fair trial, first and foremost.

edited 12th Feb '16 2:52:42 PM by Quag15

I think I'd probably do something similar to that, but I really don't know. I think I'd be more awestruck that I'm standing here with Jesus.

True. And considering the number of times that people passed out because the saw an angel/Jesus/theophany... though, the main two I remember that lost consciousness were Daniel and John, who were older at the time. I don't know if that has anything to do with anything, because the guards at the tomb also passed out when an angel showed up to move the stone.

Going to go see my dad's girlfriend tonight. I'll make sure to ask her directly if she can help me out with converting. Wish me luck!

Good luck.

Good luck.

edited 12th Feb '16 4:46:46 PM by Quag15

Ice Flowers.

The Ease of Ingratitude.

@Comedy in the bible:

Samson's One-Liner when he killed the thousand guys with a donkey jawbone. Some translations say he said "I have made heaps of them" and others say "I have made asses of them," but as it turns out, the Hebrew words for "pile" and "donkey" are chamorah and chamowr (though I forget which is which).

I also have a soft spot for Paul's response to whether circumcision was a requirement to be a Christian: no, but if you think it'll help your walk with God, why stop there? Take the while thing off while you're at it.

edited 14th Feb '16 9:37:45 PM by SalFishFin

A Widow's Choice.

Written in Our Hearts.

So, I was thinking about the story of the prodigal son earlier, and I think its got to be one of my favorite parts of the Bible.

It reminds me a lot of the relationship between my dad and my siblings (including myself). No matter how much someone messes up, he still loves and accepts us, just like how the father accepts his son in the story, and how God accepts all of his children.

Its comforting.

one of my character's origin stories is gonna be based on the Prodigal Son story.

Opening Doors.

So a local paper had some guy in the opinion section (a professional, not the average man's write in) write about how he could live without an afterlife and be perfectly happy. The way he spoke of it seemed to come as some very uneducated view of heaven as either a do what you want paradise or as the golden gates in the clouds to a hive mind society. Guess he never knew much of Buddhism or ancient Mesopotamia.

Then today I played an old game from my childhood and it reminded me of some fantasies I had as a child. That I could find some way to become immortal (on earth) or greatly extend my lifespan greatly. These two reminded me of the view that Heaven was some sort of reward for being proper or as some anti-religious might view it as a bribe to be in line.

In my recent years I have become more religious from just being what the nation is and one part of that is the fact I care more for the fact that God exists and I'm living the right life than actually caring about Heaven. I could almost say that some slumber like state would be fine by me as an ideal afterlife. Now I don't fallow that is what it is as Orthodoxy views Heaven as living in communion with God and Hell as the rejection of that love. It's just one of those things I think I'm more inclined to first the morality and existence of the religion before any rewards.

I'll fully admit that Heaven isn't my ideal afterlife. My ideal afterlife would be getting to live life all over again but under different circumstances (for example: I'm still me, but would be, say, born in an alternate universe, and then another universe after duing again, so on so forth for all of eternity).

But I'm certainly not going to complain about Heaven. It's definitely a good afterlife.

Smokey you changed your avatar. Also yeah I'm not sure what heaven is like though.

Yeah, I frequent the Christianity sub on Reddit and a lot of people there say that it's basically "Everything you loved in life is available there and you'll never get bored of it", which I think is a really nice image.

Solitude and Service.

The Voice of Faith.

Four Ways to Look.

The View from the Mountain.

Be Still.

A Better View.

edited 23rd Feb '16 2:53:17 AM by crimsonstorm15