for those of you who think my response to 2 cor 5 was funny. Lets look at context.. and see just how funny it is!!
who is the "we" paul is talking about??
5 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
Do people get a sense of it yet?
1. We have a building from God. Does an unbeliever who is not saved have a building from God?
2, Our house is eternal. Does anyone who is not saved have an eternal house in heaven waiting for them?
3. We grown, waiting to be in our house. Again Does one who is not saved, or assured of eternity grown waiting for the house promised to ALL who believe and have eternal life?
4. God has prepaird this place for us. What place has God prepaird for those who are not saved? is it not hell??
5. WE have been given the spirit as a guarantee. Do those who are not saved, or are not assured salvation have this spirit? and guarantee of what? is it not eternal life.
So how can we say Paul spoke of the whole world here??
Continuing!!
6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
1. We are confident, knowing we are absent from God. Is an unbeliever confident, knowing he is absent from God? An unbeliever does not even know he will be with God. let alone have confidence. Does he even believe in God? Nor are they that are not assured salvation!
2. WE, make it our aim to be well pleasing to him. The same we's paul has spoken of since verse 1. Those who are saved, those who have assurance, those who have been given the spirit as a guarantee. why?
10 For we (the same wes spoken of since verse 1) must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
So before you laugh, and think you know better than anyone else. Why don't you learn to look at scripture in context. and stop pulling little verses out of thin air. take them out of context. and LAUGH at people who disagree with you.
This is not from God. and it certainly is not helpful to your own eternal desires.
People say we hate because we disagree. The fact is, If you see someone on a path which will lead them to hell. Only your hatred would cause you not to confront them and not show them truth. A person who is loving of all people, would confront them, and attempt to show them truth, This universal gospel which Geometer is placing his faith in is from satan himself. I just pray he soon realizes this, and realizes we are not haters, we are trying to help him, not judge him. Only God can judge..i, and no man on earth, do not have this authority,.