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Sorry, I thought those were rhetorical questions.I humbly note that you failed to address my questions to you.
I humbly note that you failed to address my comments to you.
I'll be in heaven with my family in spirit and I leave it at that. I don't fret the details.If you married three times, and each of your X-wives went on to marry twice more, what sort of family would you expect to have in Heaven?
I'll be in heaven with my family in spirit and I leave it at that. I don't fret the details.If you married three times, and each of your X-wives went on to marry twice more, what sort of family would you expect to have in Heaven?
If you married three times, and each of your X-wives went on to marry twice more, what sort of family would you expect to have in Heaven?
I'll be in heaven with my family in spirit and I leave it at that. I don't fret the details.
You, without any evidence except some stories compiled into a couple of books, believe in a very specific god.
You must have an advanced degree in psychology and a massive ego to think you can know that much about me.
Define "in spirit."I'll be in heaven with my family in spirit and I leave it at that. I don't fret the details.
I respect that you think its superficial. Like I said I don't fret the detailsDefine "in spirit."
It strikes me as a facile dodge.
If you married three times, and each of your X-wives went on to marry twice more, what sort of family would you expect to have in Heaven?
Sorry, I thought those were rhetorical questions.
There is only 1 true God, according to Jesus, and slowly over time I found that all Jesus said works as he said -- by repeated testing in varying conditions.
Gradually I found he knows what he is talking about, and I consider Jesus to have a superior knowledge of God.
I'd not rely on my own speculations above his teachings, nor would I rely on whoever else's ideas above those of Jesus, due to all of that testing I've done.
It's somewhat like how you'd trust Einstein to know how the math and workings of Special Relativity and General Relativity, though this is only an analogy that is partial.
23 That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.
29 Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 31 But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ ? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
33When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
Matthew 22 NIV
Did you notice, or have a pause as you wrote this, that you here in these words you wrote are asserting you know what I think and/or what evidences I have?
Now, when you suggested I'd claimed to know your thoughts, your own objection as you wrote above was:
See the problem there?
I don't think this is even just the typical pot calling kettle black even.
Whereas I don't ever think I know someone else's experiences or thoughts. I only try to guess, and don't assert....
But you've outright asserted, as if to know (telepathically?) my experiences and information re "evidence"....
Hmmm.... Now, who was it that is guilty here of that?....
This would be a good reason to rethink some things, when you find you've been accusing others of something you are doing blatantly.
Real question to you: Why limit yourself, your life, your experiences, so severely? I'm not suggesting a drug, though I don't try to judge that, but even just merely taking time to stare at the sky for a while or something (bath, music, running, whatever), can be helpful to people to better their conscious state. If life seems like you'd not want to continue it after 4.32 bn years or after 2.5 minutes (I'm serious here), perhaps the problem is not being willing to experience the new.
Why do you assume that I am making an assumption that gods don't exist? Is that your ego talking again?
You, without any evidence except some stories compiled into a couple of books, believe in a very specific god.
Good questions.Wow. Matthew's Sadducees were really easy to astonish. However, I would think a group of people who didn't believe in resurrection would not be that easy to convince.
Did no one ask...
What does it mean to "be like the angels"?
If two people are in a loving marriage for 50 years and die, they can't be married in heaven? That seems rather cruel.
It seems that those verses are nothing more than Matthew making up another "Jesus is amazing" story without really thinking it all through. But, I guess, if no one ever questions it, it works.
This is what I hope you will notice here -- assuming and then an outright unqualified assertion or claim that you know whether I have evidence....I know that you have no other evidence ...
The crowd that was astonished wouldn't be mostly Sadducees, but all the interested crowds that pressed in on this amazing person they thought was a prophet with the power of God. The Sadducees would be a smaller group with their own philosophy, see.
To find out about the crowds that came to whereever Jesus wa, you'd have to read the gospels.What I see is that you are making up stories to try to support your beliefs.
23The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,
It says nothing about "interested crowds" being around.
To find out about the crowds that came to whereever Jesus wa, you'd have to read the gospels.
So, to learn whether or not local crowds came to hear Jesus at that time everywhere, came to him when they heard he was around, such as the crowd in this passage that marvels at his answer, you'd have to read in the gospels. Having done so, fully, I know what is in the text, see.I did. I even quoted them to refresh your memory:
23The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to HimSee, it clearly says the Sadducees - came to Him. I don't see how you could have missed that since it even put those words in bold for you.
It does not say anything about crowds that came wherever Jesus was.
Crowds are mentioned a few times for some specific events, but not concerning his meeting with the Sadducees.
Like where Luke quotes Jesus as saying people should hate their parents.
Luke14
25And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, 26If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Or where John talks about what happened after some faith healing.
John6
1After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. 2And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased
But, ask yourself, if he had all these huge crowds following him everywhere, why did no one write about his deeds contemporaneously? No one, in private life or in the government, made any notations at the time.
This is so a far reaching assertion, since it has no qualifier.No one, in private life .... made any notations at the time.