cicerone imposter wrote:Provide proof that "god's promise is for life on earth." Proof besides your personal opinion.
I'll have to use the bible. I hope you don't mind. Well; you know me. :wink:
"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 1:28)
"But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth,
And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. (Psalm 37:11)"
The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it." (Psalm 37:29)
"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." (Proverbs 2:21,22) (In case you are looking forward to the rapture.)
"This is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, 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: ?'I am Jehovah, and there is no one else." (Isaiah 45:18)
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. . . . My word . . . will not return to me without results, but it will certainly do that in which I have delighted, and it will have certain success in that for which I have sent it." (Isaiah 55: 8-11) In case you thought God might change his mind.
"Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth." (Matthew 5:5) (From the sermon on the mount.)