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Concerned about afterlife
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:10 pm
by Tina
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...........
Re: Concerned about afterlife
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:27 pm
by Gman
Tina wrote:
----->The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.<----- This scares me.......really scares me...........
Frankly.. I HOPE that comes true.. For I don't want the former things to be remembered. Especially my sin life..
Re: Concerned about afterlife
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:43 pm
by Gman
Re: Concerned about afterlife
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:30 pm
by Tina
Gman wrote:Tina wrote:
----->The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.<----- This scares me.......really scares me...........
Frankly.. I HOPE that comes true.. For I don't want the former things to be remembered. Especially my sin life..
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.
Re: Concerned about afterlife
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 3:29 am
by Ryan
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.
Re: Concerned about afterlife
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:26 am
by Canuckster1127
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.
