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    Just curious if any Christians know, or have any ideas as to, once they begin their ascension, how long it will take them to reach the promised land. I don't know, but I'm thinking it must be quite a long flight being that heaven must be outside and beyond the 14 billion light year across universe, so, even should you travel at the speed of light, it would take at the very least 14 billion years to get there. It's a really long way to go!

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    Originally posted by JimL View Post
    Just curious if any Christians know, or have any ideas as to, once they begin their ascension, how long it will take them to reach the promised land.
    Don't know. Don't care.

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    • #3
      Given that the Bible portrays paradise as coming to a renewed earth (the new heavens and the new earth), not long.
      "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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      • #4
        Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
        Given that the Bible portrays paradise as coming to a renewed earth (the new heavens and the new earth), not long.
        So, no ascension?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by JimL View Post
          So, no ascension?
          Not unless you change your ways.
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • #6
            Jim, I wouldn't worry about it. I'm sure hell is a lot closer.
            When I Survey....

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
              Not unless you change your ways.
              No, I mean for you christians. No ascension to heaven?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Faber View Post
                Jim, I wouldn't worry about it. I'm sure hell is a lot closer.
                Thanks, but I wasn't worried about it Faber. But seriously, if you are expecting to bodily ascend up to heaven don't you think it'll take you tens of billions of years in travelling time to get there.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by JimL View Post
                  No, I mean for you christians. No ascension to heaven?
                  In all my days as a Christian, I've never heard it called that - Jesus ascended. We don't (at least us Baptists) refer to our going to Heaven as "ascending".
                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • #10
                    Jim is more interested in getting his impression of Christianity from Left Behind movies than what the Bible actually says.
                    "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                      Jim is more interested in getting his impression of Christianity from Left Behind movies than what the Bible actually says.
                      I think he finds this stuff on really dopey anti-Christian websites and thinks it makes good arguments.
                      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                        In all my days as a Christian, I've never heard it called that - Jesus ascended. We don't (at least us Baptists) refer to our going to Heaven as "ascending".
                        Well, how do you Baptists get there then CP? Heaven is a place, right?

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by JimL View Post
                          Well, how do you Baptists get there then CP? Heaven is a place, right?
                          If I believed even a tiny bit that you were genuinely interested in this, and not just being a , I'd be happy to discuss it.

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                          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                            I think he finds this stuff on really dopey anti-Christian websites and thinks it makes good arguments.
                            No, actually it came to mind, not sure exactly why, during discussion of the "do you believe in zombies thread." I don't go to anti-christian websites CP, never been to one and don't even know of one.

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                            • #15
                              I'm guessing you mean at the Second Coming. Caught up isn't the same thing as 'everybody goes to heaven'. Actually, it comes to us in the form of the New Jerusalem.

                              Why do you assume heaven is light years away?
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