Isaiah 65:17 "Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
----->The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.<----- This scares me.......really scares me...........
Concerned about afterlife
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Tina
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Concerned about afterlife
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Re: Concerned about afterlife
Frankly.. I HOPE that comes true.. For I don't want the former things to be remembered. Especially my sin life..Tina wrote: ----->The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.<----- This scares me.......really scares me...........
The heart cannot rejoice in what the mind rejects as false - Galileo
We learn from history that we do not learn from history - Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. -Philippians 4:8
We learn from history that we do not learn from history - Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. -Philippians 4:8
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Re: Concerned about afterlife
The heart cannot rejoice in what the mind rejects as false - Galileo
We learn from history that we do not learn from history - Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. -Philippians 4:8
We learn from history that we do not learn from history - Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. -Philippians 4:8
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Tina
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Re: Concerned about afterlife
But what about everything that's happened in your life that has brought you closer to God? I don't want to forget that. What about people? I'm just scared that I'll forget people that I love.Gman wrote:Frankly.. I HOPE that comes true.. For I don't want the former things to be remembered. Especially my sin life..Tina wrote: ----->The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.<----- This scares me.......really scares me...........
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Ryan
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Re: Concerned about afterlife
I'm also concerned about this.
My past is what made me who I am. I don't want to have all of that removed from my memory. In heaven, I still want to be me.
I especially don't want to forget my future wife and family.
I just cling to the fact that God knows better than I do, and trust that if he says heaven will be better than the joys of this life, it will be.
My past is what made me who I am. I don't want to have all of that removed from my memory. In heaven, I still want to be me.
I especially don't want to forget my future wife and family.
I just cling to the fact that God knows better than I do, and trust that if he says heaven will be better than the joys of this life, it will be.
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Re: Concerned about afterlife
It's in poetic form in the Hebrew. The things that will not be remembered are the Old Heaven and the Old Earth and that's in comparison to the New to show how complete the transformation will be. It's reading something into the verse to think that it's speaking of our individual memories of our past. We have to read texts like this with the discipline of putting ourselves in the position of the original hearers in their thoughts, their language and their culture. If we come to a text like this and just grab it and make conclusions based on our thoughts, our language and our culture then we're at high risk of reading things into the text that weren't there when that Scripture was originally given.
Dogmatism is the comfortable intellectual framework of self-righteousness. Self-righteousness is more decadent than the worst sexual sin. ~ Dan Allender