Which Religion is the One True Religion?

Damn! You're hell on pets, ain'tchya?

I called upon the LORD... I asked the LORD to teach me so that I may be pleasing in the site of God...

I was then translated to a room with a window and several furnishings... I instinctively opened the window as I walked around the room noticing the contents suddenly a bird flew in through the window.

I immediately went to catch the bird so I could allow it to fly back out through the window. I easily caught the bird like it trusted me and let me place my hands around it's fragile body... I moved back over to the window and set the bird on the sill and motioned for it to fly away. Yet the bird just stood there to take one last glance at me before it would fly away.

Without warning the window came slamming down and fell upon the little birds back. I noticed the bird looking up at me with such disappointment. I could not bare the sadness as I opened window and picked the crushed nearly lifeless bird up in my hands. I set the bird on the sill again and motioned for it to fly away. This time I held the window from falling yet the bird just sat there.

In remorse I picked the bird up again and noticed a small wooden box on a table next to the window. I looked around the room but there was no cage for this bird... So I found a small piece of cloth and I placed the bird on the cloth and laid it inside the box.

As I went to close the box the lid slipped out of my fingers and slammed down on the box. When I lifted the lid I saw that now the birds head was all bloody... The bird had tried to pick up it's head and look out of the box while I was shutting the box.
The bird now lay lifeless in the box with glazed eyes holding the expression, why me?

The LORD spoke to my heart...
When the holy spirit dove flies into your heart, do not open a window and let the world come down on it and break it's back. Do not lock it up tight in a box that the lid may slam down upon it's head but hold it near to your heart and feel it's life beating within your hands and never let it depart...

Here's another aspect of heaven that doesn't make any sense. If heaven is supposed to be sin free, what happens to free will? Or is the threat of hell always present in heaven?

Now you have the best of both worlds. You can screw up big time and still have salvation, and you can still dip back into the old book to reinforce pet prejudices and bigotry.

Once you are in heaven, there is no hell for you.

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The LORD spoke to my heart...
When the holy spirit dove flies into your heart, do not open a window and let the world come down on it and break it's back. Do not lock it up tight in a box that the lid may slam down upon it's head but hold it near to your heart and feel it's life beating within your hands and never let it depart...

cicerone imposter wrote:

Here's another aspect of heaven that doesn't make any sense. If heaven is supposed to be sin free, what happens to free will? Or is the threat of hell always present in heaven?

I will try to keep this simple for you CI. It is man that uses his free will to follow in the steps of Jesus that ends up in heaven. The sin is erased before you (well, maybe not you) get there. Once you are in heaven, there is no hell for you.

Frank, The whole thing begins with another Adam and Eve. LOL

You seem to equate being in heaven as being there in our natural bodies that we now possess. When you die your body goes back to dust. The body and spirite are separated at death.

Oh, how fun. The spirits of christians all go to heaven, but their bodies are "dust." The spirit doesn't need free will, cause they won't have sex or anything else that's enjoyable. I wonder what those spirits will look like, all invisible. LOL

C.I.
Note only the Christians will go to heaven. I wonder what they have in mind for the rest of us? Gas chambers?
And they wonder why all the Christian bashing.

cicerone imposter wrote:

Frank, The whole thing begins with another Adam and Eve. LOL

They used the "they had free will" argument all over the place when Eden was discussed.

And it seemed that the one indispensable gift of their god...was "free will."

Just wondering why "free will" seems to disappear in their Heaven????

Think we will ever get a lucid answer to that?