@Romeo Fabulini,
I wrote:Then why did he [John the baptist] not go to Heaven?
Romeo Fabulini wrote:AARGHH! another outlandish JW claim!
I've told you before mate, I'm not interested in untangling your JW furballs.
But if you want to quote some scriptures to try to support your claim, go ahead so i can have fun shooting them down..
I can sympathize with your exasperation. Your spurious beliefs can't hold up to scripture.
Just a few of the places where God promises unending life on earth:
(Genesis 1:28)
. . .Further, God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth. . .
(Genesis 9:12)
And God added: “This is the sign of the covenant that I am giving between me and YOU and every living soul that is with YOU, for the generations to time indefinite.
(Psalm 37:9-11)
. . . For evildoers themselves will be cut off, But those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. ו 10 And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more; And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be. 11 But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth,. . .
(Psalm 115:16)
As regards the heavens, to Jehovah the heavens belong, But the earth he has given to the sons of men. . .
(Proverbs 2:21, 22)
For the upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it. 22 As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth; and as for the treacherous, they will be torn away from it.
(Isaiah 45:18)
. . . He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited:. . .
Two people we can expect to see on earth:
(Matthew 11:11)
. . . Truly I say to YOU people, Among those born of women there has not been raised up a greater than John the Baptist; but a person that is a lesser one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is.
(Acts 2:34)
. . . Actually David did not ascend to the heavens, but he himself says, ‘Jehovah said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand. . .
I know you like this one: Tell us if it excludes abodes which may be earthly: (John 14:2)
. . . In the house of my Father there are many abodes.. . .
Just how many will be given the kingdom? (Luke 12:32)
. . .“Have no fear, little flock, because YOUR Father has approved of giving YOU the kingdom. . .
What will those who inherit Heavenly life be doing? (Revelation 5:9, 10)
. . . And they sing a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, because you were slaughtered and with your blood you bought persons for God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, 10 and you made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are to rule as kings over the earth.”
I know you don't think the earth is good enough for the likes of you. That is your problem, not mine.