Some things that won't matter in eternity...

[Magenta]

That's how I've come to feel about six day creation in six 24-hour days. Could God have created the universe in six 24-hour days? Yes. Could he have created the universe over the course of billions of years? Yes. So whether it was six 24-hour days or six billion years is merely a curiosity to me. Someday I'll ask him which it was.

Maybe it was six days of 41,666,666.66666666666666 hours each

 

[Lynx]

Some things that won't matter in eternity - every single post in the Not By Works thread.

Also why create dinosaurs if they were just going to be killed off? I think it was to generate oil reserves for the current tech/industry boom that is driving the world straight into the end-time... but that's just my opinion and I think it won't matter when we get to Heaven.

Also the facial hair battle... have any of you ever heard of it ? It's like the smooth faces verse the burly bearded... lol

You don't have to wait for eternity to get the answer to that one. I can take care of that right now.

See in the late 60's/early 70's there was this thing called the Hippy Movement. It had some elements of rebellion against authority in it, and it used long shaggy beards as an identifier for some odd reason. So the church, in the interest of not letting our good be evil spoken of, instituted a standard against facial hair. Not that there was anything wrong with beards, but we should avoid even the appearance of evil.

NOTE: This WAS good reason for the standard. And in some places it still IS, because the stigma remains. Fortunately the stigma is dying out, and it is dying out faster and faster every year. Give it about fifteen more years and I bet you won't even find one person to argue about it.

 

[Dino246]

Also the facial hair battle... have any of you ever heard of it ? It's like the smooth faces verse the burly bearded... lol

I suspect that I'll still prefer women with smooth faces.

 

[Lighthearted]

I suspect that I'll still prefer women with smooth faces.

Oh well...not in this life time
But in heaven
Lol
Jk...how are you bro?

 

[zeroturbulence]

"Where did Cain get his wife?"

This is what I believe (and I didn't come up with it myself, but wish I did)...

God created Adam and Eve as the first man and first woman...

But that doesn't automatically mean that God stopped there. Remember, all he needed was a little dirt and he could create full on adult people with it. So who's to say that he didn't populate the world by hand, instead of using Eve as a human dispensing machine..

 

[Magenta]

"Where did Cain get his wife?"

This is what I believe (and I didn't come up with it myself, but wish I did)...

God created Adam and Eve as the first man and first woman...

But that doesn't automatically mean that God stopped there. Remember, all he needed was a little dirt and he could create full on adult people with it. So who's to say that he didn't populate the world by hand, instead of using Eve as a human dispensing machine..

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living

 

[Lynx]

Magenta gets full marks for knowing scripture. ^.^

 

[Magenta]

Magenta gets full marks for knowing scripture. ^.^

Genesis is one of my favorite Bible books for all the stories

I just watched the movie Noah again a few day ago, and
saw The Ten Commandments a couple of weeks ago, too.

Darren Aronofsky (as writer, producer, and director of the movie Noah) took liberties with the Bible story, but I like how much of the narrative was portrayed, and have even become more reconciled to the addition of the Watchers, which struck me as very strange the first time I saw them. The Ten Commandments (from 1956, with Charlton Heston as Moses, Yul Brynner as Rameses, and John Derek as Joshua) is quite a classic, although it draws from Rabbinic , Midrash, and other historical written sources to flesh out the story above and beyond Scripture. I also watched Exodus a while back Again.

If you know of any great cinematic tellings of Bible stories, I would love to hear about them I really like The Gospel of John that was done word for word, albeit from The Good News Bible translation. I don't think I have ever seen one telling just the story of Joseph, he of the coat of many colors

[video=youtube;ObcQxqYmacg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObcQxqYmacg&t=282s[/video]

 

[MultilingualMessenger]

Maybe it was six days of 41,666,666.66666666666666 hours each

If you ever think you had a long day, remember this.

 

[Dan58]

Marriage won't matter, sex won't matter, beer won't matter, violence won't matter, pain won't matter, money won't matter, kids won't matter, traffic jams won't matter, and gray hair won't matter, because none of these things will likely exist anymore.. I'm not sure I'll know what to do with myself?

 

[Pipp]

Oh yeah... and interracial relationships lol.

 

[MultilingualMessenger]

Marriage won't matter, sex won't matter, beer won't matter, violence won't matter, pain won't matter, money won't matter, kids won't matter, traffic jams won't matter, and gray hair won't matter, because none of these things will likely exist anymore.. I'm not sure I'll know what to do with myself?

Not even kids? Dang. Kids are kinda fun sometimes.

 

[maxwel]

Things that won't matter in eternity...


like that I just remembered a chicken I have in the oven...

that's been there for 4 hours?

 

[MultilingualMessenger]

Things that won't matter in eternity...


like that I just remembered a chicken I have in the oven...

that's been there for 4 hours?

Just change the time zone on your phone and tell your oven it's only been one hour.

That should work.

 

[king907]

Story of Jacob and Esau, if you read into it, Jacob was a clean (no hair) twin, while Esau, was a hairy bearded guy. Just a thought

 

[Lynx]

Talking about things that don't matter reminds me of a story about a young minister who was trying to start a new church in a community. He kept hitting brick walls everywhere. Nothing he did seemed to work at all. Finally he started asking God why nothing was working and God replied, "Half the things you think are all-important are things I don't even care about."

The goal, then, is to figure out what God DOES care about. Well that should be simple, as it is spelled out pretty plain in the Bible. But it still takes constant communication with God to apply what God cares about to the modern world.

 

[zeroturbulence]

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living

Well then Adam was one very busy man!

 

[Lynx]

Well then Adam was one very busy man!

Not so busy. He lived for CENTURIES you know.

 

[Galatea]

Anything bad we ever did on Earth, thank God! Anything bad anyone else did on Earth, thank God! It is something to be hoped for with great excitement and longing. To be sinless is something much to be desired.

 

[Lynx]

Somebody was getting on my nerves today at work, and then I remembered this thread. And I also remembered a Dilbert cartoon, where a rat (called Ratbert of course) was talking to an office worker: "Here's a funny thought. You're working hard. Meanwhile I'm naked, clueless and feeling goooooood! In a hundred years we'll both be dead and none of it will matter!"

As I recall, the worker grabbed the rat and said, "Come here, it's time for your flying lesson." >.>

But it occurred to me that all the times somebody has ticked me off won't matter in Heaven. All the times people have criticized me, all the times somebody cut me off in traffic, all the times people lied on me, none of it will matter.

Of course it still stings when stuff like that happens. But it makes it a bit easier to (eventually) let go of that stuff.