Define God

You may replace my "guess" with any verb you wish; it's still the same question.

21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

All tears, pain, sorrow, and death will be removed in that heavenly New Jerusalem where Christians will live. This is the exact opposite of the curse that resulted from Adam's sin (see Gen. 3: verses 16 to19). The effects of the curse are removed, and all things are made new. God does not merely repair the creation, He re-creates it for His children to enjoy for all eternity.

Just as the disciples knew security when Jesus was there to take care of all their needs, we will know perfect peace and joy in heaven. Jesus is the king of peace. Jesus defeated death on the cross. The biggest fear of mankind is death. We just read where the Christians will not taste the second death. This fear is gone away. Death will no longer hang over the Christian. The Christian has eternal life (not death).

There won't be any reason to cry for in heaven. The devil and all his problems he brought upon the Christians have been thrown into the lake of fire. Every negative thing has been done away with.

A statement based on inferences and on data and on verification and validation tests is much more different from a statement based on the 'first guess'. Very much different.

You, of course, realize the Greek writing of that day had no punctuation; so the statement could also read, "I tell you today, you will be with me in paradise." That certainly makes more sense, since Jesus was dead for parts of 3 days and could not have been anywhere.

The only scientific data that exist is that space is expanding.

Metric expansion is a key feature of Big Bang cosmology and is modeled mathematically with the FLRW metric. This model is valid in the present era only on large scales (roughly the scale of galaxy clusters and above). The expansion is a generic property of the universe we inhabit, though the reason we are expanding is explained by most cosmologists as having its origin in the end of the early universe's inflationary period which set matter and energy in the universe on an inertial trajectory consistent with the equivalence principle and Einstein's theory of general relativity (that is, the matter in the universe is separating because it was separating in the past). Additionally, the expansion rate of the universe has been measured to be accelerating; to explain this, physicists postulate a repulsive force of dark energy, which appears in the theoretical models as a cosmological constant. This acceleration of the universe has only recently become measurable. Due to recent measurements, it is now thought that up until about five billions years ago, the universe's expansion rate was actually decelerating due to the gravitational attraction of the matter content of the universe. According to the simplest extrapolation of the currently-favored cosmological model (known as "ΛCDM"), however, the dark energy acceleration will dominate on into the future.

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A statement based on inferences and on data and on verification and validation tests is much more different

But mate, nobody has ever been able to figger out Revelation because it's so heavily-laced with metaphor, analogy and symbolism.

Personally I wouldn't want to be a "king over the earth" because the earth would mean nothing to me, I'd be glad to be off it and wash my hands of it and forget it..

It’s not so cut and dried as you would have us believe, though.

According to Acts God saw to it that Jesus’ soul was not left in Hades, i.e. the abode of the dead. 1 Peter states that while in Hades he preached to the spirits there.

In Revelation it states that he was dead, but that now he is alive and holds the keys of death and Hades.

Your placement of a comma is self-serving. Other translators place commas after "I tell you", "I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise."

(re Revelation)-I think I have a fair understanding myself...

(And re the "new heaven and earth")- I'm kinda glad you won't be there...

Many translators have the mistaken idea that the soul, or some part of the personality, survives death. I have presented ample evidence to the contrary and will continue to post it