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Hi and thank you James.
I see that sometimes you interpret the Bible literally and sometimes not. I am a person to rely on my intellect and I interpret the Bible mostly symbolically and sometimes fully according to what science says.That is alright with you, I hope. I believe in just one miracle, and that is the Immaculate birth of Christ.Today I learned something new, though at first I said to myself, I cannot understand that "emptiness", especially after you pointed out ,that the devil was chained..Now I do, so here we go: you say that the righteous have gone to heaven, and the dead are in the graves, that the earth is therefore empty and this is also backed up by the Jeremiahs verse. The devil is in its pit.
I understand that this is understood literally, by you.Many would believe this. It seems so obvious. That is ,that you think the heaven is meant the sky above us.
How about this then:
Since I believe that the Biblical heaven is inside us, in the form of love, that the Kingdom of God is to be planted in our hearts, and meeting in the air is to be understood as meeting in the spirit, I can not accept this literal interpretation which you have presented.
Moreover I believe many other things that makes it absolutely impossible for me to believe these sayings as anything but God's way to make us look into our own hearts. I believe He wants us to find out whether we wish to be filled with love from His wondrous Kingdom of heavenly bliss and joy or if we want to believe in things that is contrary to natural laws. Whether we prefer miracles.
We do not even have to die the physical death in order to be in this heaven inside us. Some people think we have to. Priests are teaching this.
I think He wants us to look for the true death which I mentioned above, and that it is to die to the world and all its fleeting imagery and hold to the blissful joy of His invisible realms.
I have this view, not because I want to be "modern" and "intellectual" because it reduces quarrels,irritation and animosity. And the purpose of religion is to cultivate union and peace. There will be less disagreements and irritation when we,generally and as much as possible!!! use the method of studying the Bible in a symbolic way .
I acknowledge that you are right in that one should always write down the specific verses to back one's statements. You are quite right. Still I hold as true that one can also drive with one's own energy that has already been installed by the divine Physician . Concerning heaven I do not need to back it up , because it is so selfevident that Jesus was and is a specialist Physician of sad hearts, which He transformed into heaven for the ones who believed in Him.
And now, a few lines I often tell people around here and who do not believe in God:. God has made the material sky come down all the way to the soil of the earth. This in itself is a sign for us, if we want to ponder upon it. SO,We are already in the invisible realm, aren't we.!!!!We move about in the invisible, we breathe what is invisible, we so to say, are in the sky already, think of that! Only the bottom of our feet touch the soil.
I have just used my own energy, my independence too.
Bye for now
Kind regards from
Laila
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