I'm going to drop a 10 Megaton Truth Bomb and the collateral damage is going to be devastating, so please take cover....
Q. What is in Paradise?
A. "To him, that overcometh, I will give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the PARADISE of my God ..." -- Revelation 2:7 KJV
Q. Where does the Tree of Life stand?
A. "And...on either side of the River (of Life), was there the Tree of Life." -- Revelation 22:2 KJV
Q. From where does the River of Life flow?
A. "And he showed me a pure River of Water of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the THRONE OF GOD...." -- Revelation 22:1 KJV
Please, let's all stop with this silliness about Paradise being down somewhere under the Earth. PARADISE IS UP, NOT DOWN, and neither Jesus nor the thief went to Paradise that Friday. The comma is in the WRONG place. The text should read, "I say unto you today, you will be with Me in Paradise." IOW, "I say unto you today while I'm hanging here looking like anything but the Savior of the world, you will be with Me in Paradise."
Q. What is in Paradise?
A. "To him, that overcometh, I will give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the PARADISE of my God ..." -- Revelation 2:7 KJV
Q. Where does the Tree of Life stand?
A. "And...on either side of the River (of Life), was there the Tree of Life." -- Revelation 22:2 KJV
Q. From where does the River of Life flow?
A. "And he showed me a pure River of Water of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the THRONE OF GOD...." -- Revelation 22:1 KJV
Please, let's all stop with this silliness about Paradise being down somewhere under the Earth. PARADISE IS UP, NOT DOWN, and neither Jesus nor the thief went to Paradise that Friday. The comma is in the WRONG place. The text should read, "I say unto you today, you will be with Me in Paradise." IOW, "I say unto you today while I'm hanging here looking like anything but the Savior of the world, you will be with Me in Paradise."
But maybe you don't. But you sure do this annulling of scripture with Paradise. Our Lord Jesus promised the thief on the cross who called on Him, to be TOGETHER in Paradise THAT DAY. This was probably about 2 p.m. Jesus died at 3 p.m, but the thief lingered until they broke his legs. The reason was that they had to get the bodies off the cross before sunset by Law. And both Matthew 12:40 and Ephesians 4:8-9 tell us that our Lord DESCENDED to the heart of the earth. Acts Chapter 2:27-34 makes it clear that Hades is the place Jesus went to and ROSE out of Hades in resurrection. And John 20:17 our Lord Himself says in John 20:17 that He had NOT YET ascended to His Father, even after resurrection. If a sixth-grader was presented with that sequence, he would say that:
- For the thief to be TOGETHER with Jesus before sunset, he died and went to the same place as Jesus
- Jesus must have gone to Hades under the earth
- Jesus and the thief must have had intelligent consciousnesses in Hades to be able to experience TOGETHERNESS
- That Paradise is in HADES under the earth
- That Paradise that two dead men went to did NOT have the Tree of Life in it since it is the "place of the dead"
You have voiced your objections. Fine. We know you don't agree with me, and you are willing to add and subtract from scripture to box your variation of the matter through. We also know that you have yet to enter into debate about my argument in posting # 13, AND we know that you refused to even read it when I pointed it out. You have no intention of discovering the truth. Then, in every further posting you display a tendency to cover up what scripture plainly reveals. And finally, after you were invited to give your exegesis of John 14, you ignored this invitation. Let the reader judge if you are a worthy judge of the Jesuits.