The Resurection Hope Was Comforting....What Comfort Do You Now Have? (page 3)

minimus

Every Baptist I know says they're going to heaven. The point is NO religion teaches that when you die you come back to live forever on a paradise earth. Most JWs I know do not want to go to heaven even if earth were a first destination, like The Russelites (I believe) taught.

OUTLAW

I`m comforted in the fact..

A lot of AssH*les wil never be back..

Some people should stay dead..

Although it`s not like they have a choice..

..................... ...OUTLAW

minimus

OUTLAW, I know you have only kindness in your .

pat1060

Since you asked,a good question by the way....I'm still new at this fading.I still think like a jw.I still want to believe in the earthly hope.Resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous.I'm still confused and serching......

minimus

Maybe "Paradise" is in heaven.

pat1060

So many scriptures about the earth,how are they explained...

minimus

Jesus said You will be with me in Paradise. Jesus was not going to reside on the earth.

BluesBrother

The point behind Min's question was very sound.

I had always had a comforting hope that my Mother would come back to me in the Ress.. (Dad was never a Witness so I held out little hope for him ! ) But one of the first crushing disappointments that I had was to realise that, like the New World, the Earthly Ress (a la Jehovah's Witness teaching ) was a crock of you-know-what..

Now, just what can you say to comfort the bereaved? I have not got a strong theology to be able to be convinced of a heavenly afterlife, or what form such a life might take ..

I guess that is something we lost when we abandoned our dub beliefs . I have not replaced them with a sure hope yet..

VIII

I have not read anyone's response. So, here is what *I* thought:

As a JW kid I had some mean-ass relatives. Seriously. They were not the nicest people. I always (as a brain-dead JW) thought living forever would be fun, as long as I was perfect and looked like one of the gals on TV or in a magazine. You know--smokin'. Otherwise, what was the point?

On to the Resurrection and my mean-ass relatives. None of them were worthy of being resurrected in my opinion. And I was a kid. I was less than 18 years old and I realized that if *I* were God Jehovah, I would pass on them. They were pieces of shit.

So, why would I want them resurrected? Why would I want to live forever with a bunch of mean SOBs? Forever is a long time and spending forever with people you saw on weekends and on holidays seemed like forever in hell.

That started my downward spiral to being an Apostate. Seriously. I never thought any of them, or many in the KH we attended deserved to be resurrected.

So, when I left and faded, I didn't worry about that. I was never *Comforted* by it and when I hear my mother and aunts talk about it now, honestly, I want to throw up and tell them that So and So was a POS and God wouldn't resurrect them if he had a gun to his head.

Just my opinion.

leavingwt

Minimus,

Simply put, it's both: Heaven and (then eventually) Earth.

Upon death, the soul goes to Heaven, waiting for the time when a New Earth is created. At this time, their soul will be placed into a new body on this New Earth.

-LWT

The Resurection Hope Was Comforting....What Comfort Do You Now Have?

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