Loved ones in heaven

[MahogonySnail]

My mom doesn't believe we will know each other in heaven, that we will be strangers. I believe that we will. I find it saddening to think that our relationships on earth do not continue in heaven or that my family does not see our relationships as continuing in heaven. What do you think?

 

[pickles]

My mom lived a great love for Jesus.
She wrote a letter that was to be read at her funeral.
In the last sentence she said,to us her children.
I look forward to seeing each and every one of you on the day you join me in heaven.
I will be waiting with open arms.
My mom was never wrong when she spoke of what Jesus had to give us.
She knew Jesus very well.
So I believe we will know her.
I also believe we will know every brother and sister in Jesus.
It will be one of the many gifts of God Our Father.
God bless, pickles

 

[dothackzero]

I'd think that we'd know everyone that know on Earth in heave. Though I don't have scripture to prove it sadly...

 

[Sharp]

I think we will know and recognise the people we knew on earth. But I think we will have an equally deep and close friendship with every other person there aswell, so that we won't love some people more just because we knew them on earth.

 

[greatkraw]

our relationships are some of the few things we can take into heaven

we will not be married but we can share memories with our former spouses including our children

 

[loveschild]

I thank God we will know our loved ones. People say the people who we have never seen on earth will come up to us and say thank you for praying for me. Because of your prayers I found Jesus. I'll be happy to see the people who prayed for me.

 

[Dread_Zeppelin]

I sincerely believe that the bonds we have on earth will be carried into heaven, but that we will all love eachother equally (the rest of the christian clan).

 

[SeekinHIM]

Wow all good stuff...............Here's a thought, CHECK out FREDDIE HAYLER, ON U-TUBE........................He was given a vision of heaven and it is absolutely amazing.

He made a CD. set called HEAVEN : THE NARRATIVE - PLEASE CHECK IT OUT ON www.freddiehayler.org The music is absolutely beautiful........

I'd like to share this with you as well,

My Mom went to be with the LORD 27 years ago, and here's the weird part, I was living in Florida at the time and she lived in N.Y................

I was always closer to my Mom than my Dad. When she died,I was devastated, wailing, sobbing, I lost it..... within a couple of days, the LORD gave me a vision of her in heaven, she was young and beautiful, and no longer sick with Multiple Sclerosis, and Epilepsy.......She was so beautiful.......I was instantly at peace about her going home.......

 

[Graybeard]

Snail..I know you don't believe this happens but there are people who claim to have died and have had a glimpse of Heaven where they have seen and recognized friends and family and even spoken to them. Too many have had this experience to be a coincidence or figment of the imagination IMHO.
My dad died and at the last accepted Christ, although I am not sure how sincere he was as he was doped with mophine, my brother prayed for God to take his spirit and within 5 minutes he was gone....my hope is that God gave him grace.

 

[MahogonySnail]

I believe it happens in fact I'm often the one appealing to people's subjective experiences , near death, or out of body experiences to support a particular doctrinal view. Like this pastor who died and went to heaven and God warned him that unless he sent him back to earth he'd have to go to hell, because this pastor had died whilst holding unforgiveness in his heart after an argument with his wife, sheds more light on the issue of 'once saved always saved'. Then there's the story of a man who was stun by a jellyfish and was dying on the hospital bed, he was an unbeliever, and as he was dying he had a vision of his mother praying and God Himself took him through the Lord's prayer and after that when he woke up alive again he was a born again christian. Again - he could not have entered heaven without asking God for forgiveness of his own sins, and saying that he forgives others (as per the Lord's prayer).

 

[Graybeard]

Oh..okay, sorry I must have got my lines crossed...