How To Get To Heaven When You Die

[Paddington]

One time I was praying and I asked God directly... why do I post on the MISC?

Then an answer came to me... "so that their souls can be saved."

It means I'm on this forum to save the lost souls who haven't repented yet.

Do you share the Gospel on here?

[Paddington]

Be safe. Keep trusting in the Lord.

[Paddington]

Man says God healed him of COVID-19 by breathing into his lungs

https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/man-says...eathing-lungs/

[alrip]

One of the most famous Greek sculptures in the world, a larger-than-life marble statue of a female, reigns over a monumental staircase in the Louvre. A soft, unfelt breeze ripples through the thin, flowing sheets that drape her athletic body. Two expansive, articulated wings sweep elegantly back from her torso, giving the impression that she has just floated down from on high and landed softly on the prow of an invisible ship. Though now headless, the statue’s sense of movement is so vivid that one can still “see” her neck craning, her jaw jutting, and her eyes looking carefully downward as she settles to ground. She moves and yet is still. She is “Winged Victory,” Nike, the Greek goddess of victory.

Victory in battle, conquest in war, and success in sport are typically celebrated with a blast of trumpets, gold medals hung around the neck, ticker tape parades, a crowning with laurels, or the placing of an elegant statue like “Winged Victory” to serenely personify triumph over one’s enemies. Jesus Christ changed all that. He changed what victory looked like. Jesus climbed a different podium to win a different type of victory over man’s greatest enemy. On Good Friday, the God of the Living descended into the depths of human experience to conquer death. His victory parade was the carrying of the Cross on His tender shoulders up the hill of Calvary, where His hands were nailed to a splintery timber. He was raised on high by centurions for mockery, not exaltation. He then died a slow, agonizing death as His thorax sunk lower and lower and His diaphragm sucked less and less air into His lungs. It was not fast and clean. It took three hours. No one knew it at the time, but this was the new look of love in the Christian age, this was the new victory pose. Not laurels, but thorns. Not trumpets, but screams. Not medals, but scars. On Good Friday, Christ redefined victory. The victor is not prideful or strong, but humble, meek, wrecked, injured, and dead.

Pain in the non-Christian world, whether in the past or today, has no redemptive power or reward. It is just mindless, arbitrary suffering. At best, it is stoicism. In the person of Jesus Christ, God does not explain human suffering. Instead, He gives it meaning. And giving meaning to something is a type of answer, although not a solution. We do not go to a funeral to solve a problem, to raise the dead to life. We go simply to be present, to share the family’s sorrow. Sharing is a powerful response. It is more satisfying and profound to give something meaning than to make it disappear. The answer of Jesus Christ to human suffering is to share it. His answer is empathy. He suffers, dies, and is buried. No one can point a finger at God and say, “You don’t know what it’s like!” He certainly does know what it’s like! Jesus could have saved the world by cutting Himself shaving. But He didn’t. He experienced more than was necessary, because it was more fitting that God share every single human experience except sin. God drinks the common cup of human suffering to the dregs.

Jesus did not die full of years. He died young, like many tragic heroes. Christ’s death gives hope to all who are preyed upon by loneliness, depression, fear, illness, anxiety, confusion, sin, and shame. In His death, Jesus does not just tell us but shows us that all these things can be conquered when united to Him. Jesus did not leave us a book. He left us a life. And that life continues to be shared with us in word and sacrament, in the fullest possible way, in the Catholic Church. God did not die on the Cross so that artists could sculpt Him and have their statues be admired in museums. God died for a higher reason. He died for us. In Christ, the gift and the giver, the priest and the sacrifice, merge, and the result is life. As in marriage, so also in the Trinity, self-gift merges in generative love and creates life. So we etch that powerful reminder of Christ’s life-generating gift of self—the Crucifix—into our tombstones, place it high in our churches, and even grace our necks with this universal symbol of redemptive love by hanging it from fine chains. In hoc signo vinces. Christ is our new winged Victory, not with two glorious wings spreading out in a proud gesture of triumph, but with His two thin bloody arms pinned to the Cross. He hangs there in agony, gasping for air, and heroically waits for Sunday to come.

Crucified Lord, in Your passion and death, You walked for us the hard path to new life. You exited life through the door of death and so give us hope that the end is the beginning, that loss is gain, that defeat is victory, and that death is life.

[Paddington]

Please take the time to read this first post and vote in the poll if you haven't yet.

[BrosefMengele]

Op worships demons..

[RedPolo]

Op worships demons..

You’re a demon

[BrosefMengele]

You’re a demon

I forgive you for that

[Paddington]

Op worships demons..

Nope. I worship the Lord. You reject Christ for who He is.

[Mr Beer]

Man says God healed him of COVID-19 by breathing into his lungs

https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/man-says...eathing-lungs/

So fk the 100K people who already died of this disease then? Thanks God, you're the best!

[BrosefMengele]

Nope. I worship the Lord.

Who's the Lord?

[Paddington]

Who's the Lord?

The God of the Bible. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, these three are one.

1Co 1:3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

1Co 3:16 ¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

2Ti 1:2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

[BrosefMengele]

these three are one.

Yep, you worship demons.

Jesus is the Lord, by the way.

[numberguy12]

One of the most famous Greek sculptures in the world, a larger-than-life marble statue of a female, reigns over a monumental staircase in the Louvre. A soft, unfelt breeze ripples through the thin, flowing sheets that drape her athletic body. Two expansive, articulated wings sweep elegantly back from her torso, giving the impression that she has just floated down from on high and landed softly on the prow of an invisible ship. Though now headless, the statue’s sense of movement is so vivid that one can still “see” her neck craning, her jaw jutting, and her eyes looking carefully downward as she settles to ground. She moves and yet is still. She is “Winged Victory,” Nike, the Greek goddess of victory.

Victory in battle, conquest in war, and success in sport are typically celebrated with a blast of trumpets, gold medals hung around the neck, ticker tape parades, a crowning with laurels, or the placing of an elegant statue like “Winged Victory” to serenely personify triumph over one’s enemies. Jesus Christ changed all that. He changed what victory looked like. Jesus climbed a different podium to win a different type of victory over man’s greatest enemy. On Good Friday, the God of the Living descended into the depths of human experience to conquer death. His victory parade was the carrying of the Cross on His tender shoulders up the hill of Calvary, where His hands were nailed to a splintery timber. He was raised on high by centurions for mockery, not exaltation. He then died a slow, agonizing death as His thorax sunk lower and lower and His diaphragm sucked less and less air into His lungs. It was not fast and clean. It took three hours. No one knew it at the time, but this was the new look of love in the Christian age, this was the new victory pose. Not laurels, but thorns. Not trumpets, but screams. Not medals, but scars. On Good Friday, Christ redefined victory. The victor is not prideful or strong, but humble, meek, wrecked, injured, and dead.

Pain in the non-Christian world, whether in the past or today, has no redemptive power or reward. It is just mindless, arbitrary suffering. At best, it is stoicism. In the person of Jesus Christ, God does not explain human suffering. Instead, He gives it meaning. And giving meaning to something is a type of answer, although not a solution. We do not go to a funeral to solve a problem, to raise the dead to life. We go simply to be present, to share the family’s sorrow. Sharing is a powerful response. It is more satisfying and profound to give something meaning than to make it disappear. The answer of Jesus Christ to human suffering is to share it. His answer is empathy. He suffers, dies, and is buried. No one can point a finger at God and say, “You don’t know what it’s like!” He certainly does know what it’s like! Jesus could have saved the world by cutting Himself shaving. But He didn’t. He experienced more than was necessary, because it was more fitting that God share every single human experience except sin. God drinks the common cup of human suffering to the dregs.

Jesus did not die full of years. He died young, like many tragic heroes. Christ’s death gives hope to all who are preyed upon by loneliness, depression, fear, illness, anxiety, confusion, sin, and shame. In His death, Jesus does not just tell us but shows us that all these things can be conquered when united to Him. Jesus did not leave us a book. He left us a life. And that life continues to be shared with us in word and sacrament, in the fullest possible way, in the Catholic Church. God did not die on the Cross so that artists could sculpt Him and have their statues be admired in museums. God died for a higher reason. He died for us. In Christ, the gift and the giver, the priest and the sacrifice, merge, and the result is life. As in marriage, so also in the Trinity, self-gift merges in generative love and creates life. So we etch that powerful reminder of Christ’s life-generating gift of self—the Crucifix—into our tombstones, place it high in our churches, and even grace our necks with this universal symbol of redemptive love by hanging it from fine chains. In hoc signo vinces. Christ is our new winged Victory, not with two glorious wings spreading out in a proud gesture of triumph, but with His two thin bloody arms pinned to the Cross. He hangs there in agony, gasping for air, and heroically waits for Sunday to come.

Crucified Lord, in Your passion and death, You walked for us the hard path to new life. You exited life through the door of death and so give us hope that the end is the beginning, that loss is gain, that defeat is victory, and that death is life.

It might be acknowledged that Jesus was portrayed differently in the bible as well. For example, in John's vision of Jesus in Revelation, we read the description of a

"....son of man,dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. 14 The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. 15 His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance." - Revelation 1

Some people take the rider of white horse to be Christ himself, and this figure is nothing short of a conqueror in the apocalyptic literature: defeating the beast, fire blazing eyes, wearing the victory crown (actually Revelation 19 has the figure wearing several crowns). So I guess we're back to that Greek notion of conquering in victory and crowns, eh?

Also, something which must be asked whenever this stuff comes up......evidence for literally any of this?

[Paddington]

Yep, you worship demons.

Jesus is the Lord, by the way.

You just called God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit demons. I do not worship demons. You just blasphemed the Lord. Repent!

[BrosefMengele]

You just called God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit demons.

The Lord is not three anything, He's Jesus. I know nothing of your three headed god. Yes you worship demons.

[Paddington]

The Lord is not three anything, He's Jesus. I know nothing of your three headed god. Yes you worship demons.

So then you admit that Jesus is the Lord. So do I. And the BIBLE says that the LORD is GOD.

Ex 20:2 [u]I am[/b] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

"I AM" Is God's name and Jesus said that He is "I AM". He is the LORD and the LORD is God.

You are blind.

De 4:24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

Ho 14:1 ¶ O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

How many times does the phrase "The LORD thy God" appear in the Bible?

Lu 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

You said that Jesus Christ is the LORD, then you MUST confess that the LORD is God!

Jesus Christ is the LORD God in the flesh!

[BrosefMengele]

So then you admit that Jesus is the Lord. So do I!

No, you have two Lords, maybe three. Jesus is one person. One Lord.

[Paddington]

No, you have two Lords, maybe three. Jesus is one person. One Lord.

So then you are saying that the Bible is wrong when it says that the Lord is God?

[BrosefMengele]

So then you are saying that the Bible is wrong when it says that the Lord is God?

You believe in three Lords.

I believe in one Lord: Jesus.

You worship demons.

[Paddington]

No, you have two Lords, maybe three. Jesus is one person. One Lord.

So then what you are saying is that the Bible is lying and that God isn't one God?

God the Father, Son and Spirit are one. That's what the Bible says.

1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

[BrosefMengele]

So then what you are saying is that the Bible is lying and that God isn't one God?

You're just babbling nonsense.

You believe in three demons. 1 Jn 5:7 isn't even inspired it was added, look it up it's called the Comma Johanneum; not that you haven't been shown this before.

Jesus is Lord. Not the trinity or three headed god you worship.

Stop babbling. Acknowledge that 1 John 5:7 was added out of thin air before you say anything else.

[Paddington]

You're just babbling nonsense.

You believe in three demons. 1 Jn 5:7 isn't even inspired it was added, look it up it's called the Comma Johanneum; not that you haven't been shown this before.

Jesus is Lord. Not the trinity or three headed god you worship.

Stop babbling. Acknowledge that 1 John 5:7 was added out of thin air before you say anything else.

So then you called God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit Demons.

The Bible says that Jesus Christ is the Lord and the Lord is God and you call Him a Demon?

[BrosefMengele]

So then you called God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit Demons.

Round and round we go..

1 Jn 5:7 was added.

There is no "trinity", "triune god", etc.

Again, you worship demons.

[Dorich]

I would give my life for Paddington.

[BrosefMengele]

The Bible says that Jesus Christ is the Lord and the Lord is God and you call Him a Demon?

2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Is Jesus the Lord in this verse? Or is that another Lord?

[Dorich]

2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Is Jesus the Lord in this verse? Or is that another Lord?

Which false sect are you in, Jehovah's Witness or Unitarian?

[BrosefMengele]

Which false sect are you in, Jehovah's Witness or Unitarian?

Who is the Lord in 2 Cor 3:17???

[Dorich]

Who is the Lord in 2 Cor 3:17???

Triggered cause I exposed you, eh?

Can't answer the question?

Cat got your tongue?

[BrosefMengele]

Is Jesus the Lord who is the Spirit? Or is "the third person" of "the trinity" the Lord who is the Spirit????