Should we follow the church or the Bible? Which one is better?
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The King James version has been stable for 500 years and there are only slight changes in texts written 2,000 years ago. Churches are based on somebody's misinterpretation of the bible, and that changes every time a new person takes over. The bible is obviously more stable and you should abandon any church that does not follow it. Detailed instructions for conducting a church meeting are given in 1 Corinthians chapters 12, 13, and 14, and not one church follows those instructions.
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
God Himself maintains the integrity of His word. Every church suffers from compromised integrity. It is not reliable to let people tell you what the bible says. Many people will make up stuff because they don't know what it says, and many will make up stuff because they wish it would not say what it says. You just have to read it for yourself. Read a chapter of Proverbs every day. Proverbs has 31 chapters so you can keep your place by just looking at a calendar. There is no religion or nothing in Proverbs and you don't have to believe anything. Just read to find wisdom. When you are comfortable with that, then read the bible from Romans to 2 Thessalonians over and over until you start to remember what it says. That is the part that applies to Christians.
To answer your question: Hell is a hole is a grave. Check any dictionary. Everybody goes there.
Your answer should come from what the bible tells us. The bible explains the condition of the dead, the hope for the dead, and even why we die in the first place. One thing we must come to know first is what is the soul, to help us come to appreciate what happens to us when we die. Briefly the bible at Ez. 18:4 says that the soul that sins dies.. other bible references refer to the soul, that eats and animals even as souls. To summarize the soul is the complete person who is alive, and therefore can die.
Ecc 9:5 says that the living are conscious that they will die, but the dead are conscious of nothing at all" They cannot hurt, help or harm you. When jesus was on earth and referred to lazurus as sleeping, the people were confused because they knew he had died. When we are in a deep sleep we are unaware of our surrounding and what is going on around us. But just like sleep we can be awakened. That was what Jesus was also pointing out. He has the ability to awaken us from sleep. Therefore he performed resurrections. The bible reveals 9 resurrections that have taken place, showing that in the near future God not only has the power to bring us back to life but wants too.
So to answer your question directly. When we die, we are simply unconscious, in deep sleep. Awaiting the resurrection from God back to earth, on a paradise earth. For death and suffering and this type of life we live now, is not his original purpose for man. But if you want to learn more, in depth about this topic I would love to show you what the bible says and I know you will enjoy it very much. Or you can go to jw.org and type in your question in the search box. Hope this helped
This is a psychic perspective. I see visions in the night as I sleep and there are many around.
Bible does state the dead shall be risen up.
Being psychic actually reaches further back in time than religion.
Here is some information to consider.
A friend last night said in an email he would be visiting at 10 today. As a psychic and with a friend I do have telepathic access. He is still quietly asleep.
Psychics do not intrude in others reality we simply find them as they are.
I am of 66 years of age, and with many past friends in my life. There are times when I have considered past friends.
Relating this to telephony concepts. Your call goes thru and you speak to each other. There is also the busy signal which is quite common. Now there is a thing called leave a message which a psychic has no concept of using. There is also the phone number you are calling is no longer in service.
This last one is how I establish a friend has passed on. Telepathy is like this.
Psychics often state they have made contact with a favorite. I actually see them. Sometimes very accurate and well defined. Sometimes more blur than to their energy.
In short we remain here for eternity.
Some do have concept of heaven and hell, and often have tricked their own reality to never accepting being a favorite to others after they have passed.
Belief is a wonderful thing. Belief is also what prevents many from being accessible to a psychic.
Therefore when we die we exist ephemerally.
I ask them questions quite often and they reply and accept the contact with gratitude almost. This I am now being told is not gratitude this is simply being with the proper way to understand and accept new conditions.
Can you believe in miracles. Can you believe your past contacts of friends and family are intensely welcoming you.
Then the ploy begins. Do you rush to them (and seek your own demise) or they to open doors for you for your life together with them (the future of living alive.)
Psychics are numerous but full psychics are not so common.
I was told to expect this part of my life to become complete later in life. Lots of very helpful people took the time to make sure I would be aware of this.
The age of 6 the gypsy explained to me and mom what would happen in our lives. This is now done. I am at age 66 now. I am still opening to that potential. Nothing remains of being a service technician. I am ready to begin.
Phones pretend to be a form of telepathic contact. You open you cell phone and that person on the end says, "mom is dead." All of the personal contact is worthless. The value of being stranged to your own self is too common.
My entire family is intensely psychic. We were so full of potential we often helped others with problems which were not ours. (please excuse the few tears)
I say I saw my favorite aunt. My mind also says I saw them, not just aunt. On her death she came to me and brother and I watched from our bed and together we found her (and them, now almost accepted) as being connected.
I use the contacts of the visible reality of people who are living and make them make me to ask the questions the them YES THEM need to relay to me.
On the days when you or I can be out of sorts. (please acknowledge this within your own mind first before reading on.)
Shit or hell in a handbag. Nothing worked. I looked a candle all night. Something happened but I do not know what.
The potential. The potential is so incredible and with no true amount of words these must be deciphered.
Be not alone. Leave this place and make a new place.
Not of this site. This question dot com is innocent of being influence generating. The last was so intense even a half million viewers seemed so trivial.
Find something to hold onto as the worlds spins even we have more than just small potential.
Define a good person living or dead. What you call your heart has decided who is worthy for even a dream to share with your own self.
We are as such an entire entity. We manifest in this animal called man.
I am the hardest thing you shall ever decipher for this mankind. We have no these of thee or that or it. We are a true relationship, of human and this earther one.
Seek to be content for awhile. I have not finished with this site either.
Things do go too fast for me and the verbal "god speed" is never to be used on me. The intensity is tremendous. The potential is to become absolutely lost.
Relate to life first. Then relate to me.