a fundy view of heaven

[Jenn]

Quote:I started reading Jonathan Edwards.

interesting, I only know Edwards for scaring people out of hell.

[Persnickety Polecat]

(04-06-2012 01:27 PM)Jenn Wrote:  

Quote:All your deeds will be displayed on a big TV monitor

Oh yeah, I forgot about your personal screening of This Was Your Life.

I think this was where they first lost me. I can't even really remember how old I was the first time the "'You Worthless Sinner, You' on the big screen" theory was expounded upon, but it left me feeling so utterly discouraged that I just didn't care what I did anymore. I figured everyone I knew was just going to be standing there agog at all the evil and wickedness that was my life no matter how good I tried to be, so I didn't even bother trying to be good.

[pastor's wife]

I really liked Heaven by Joni Eareckson Tada. She talked about things that had bothered ME when thinking about heaven. http://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Your-Real-H...395&sr=8-2

For children, I absolutely love Let's Talk About Heaven by Debby Anderson. It's very Scriptural but also imaginative and makes heaven seem exciting and wonderful instead of bland and boring. http://www.amazon.com/Lets-about-Heaven-...cr_pr_pb_t

[Kate]

(04-06-2012 09:52 AM)Bob M Wrote:  I think the OP is a fairly accurate and common view of how IFB's see heaven. When I left there, I started reading Jonathan Edwards. It was hard because most of the reading I was accustomed to in fundyville was Hal Lindsay level. Edwards view of heaven is beautiful and wonderful. We are given eyes that can see God for who he is in ever increasing ways each day, so that as we experience God, there is never a dull day. Then a few years later I spent a year with my small group (Oh the horrors that would have been heaped on us for having a small group in a fundy church) reading Randy Alcorn's book Heaven. FANTASTIC!!!


There will be animals there. And food. And work. And sports. And everything else we have on earth. Probably even the coolest iPads you could ever imagine. And he supports it all with scripture.

The Fundy view of heaven is weak and does not give anyone a desire to be there, except the greatest soul winners who will get a big mansion and lots of crowns.

btw, the crowns are not crowns. The Crown of life is "The Crown, which is LIFE." You endure to the end and you get eternal life. Not by works, but by grace through faith.

Yes!! HEAVEN by Randy Alcorn is awesome!! I read it several years ago and it turned my thinking around. In a week I'll be leading the very same small group study for our Protestant Women of the Chapel Bible study.

[Tooktheredpill]

Quote:A book that changed my thinking on the subject is Heaven is a Place on Earth: Why everything you do matters to God.

Yes, yes, yes. Can't recommend this book enough for those who want to rethink their understanding of heaven.

Definitely paradigm shifting.

[Bob M]

(04-06-2012 01:33 PM)Jenn Wrote:  

Quote:I started reading Jonathan Edwards.

interesting, I only know Edwards for scaring people out of hell.

He wrote hundreds of other things aside from that famous sermon. The Freedom of the Will, Sin and Temptation, Miscellanies.

[That'sWhatItSays]

I will say this, the highest physical pleasure we can have on earth (outside of illicit drugs) is sexual intercourse. It is proscripted by God to be within the bounds of marriage. The Church is a bride. We await our union with Christ in Heaven. He was saving Himself for the church.

I'm thinking Heaven is going to be a lot more pleasurable than listening to the thousandth sermon from the same guy on a Sunday morning.

[Strangly Warmed]

I have a fundy aunt who doesn't liked to thanked for work she does, because God won't give her a crown. She already got her reward on earth.

[Bob M]

(04-07-2012 11:48 PM)Strangly Warmed Wrote:  I have a fundy aunt who doesn't liked to thanked for work she does, because God won't give her a crown. She already got her reward on earth.

That is so retarded.