Heaven
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 2:43 pm
In my personal devotional time, I've been reading and studying through the Lord's prayer, and I got stuck on the second "chunk" of studying.
Our father (1)
who art in heaven (2) <- Place I'm stuck.
It caused me to really note a few things.
1 - As with the Bible, so is in contemporary literature: there is a whole lot more out there about heaven that is serious studying, then there is about hell with it's fanciful tales of "I've been to heaven and back." We see Stephen and Paul talk about similar encounters, but Paul especially not want to mention anymore of it because he saw it as unnecessary (2 Cor. 12:3-7).
2 - But for the purposes of the Lord's prayer, Jesus could and probably is referring to heaven as the throne of God (cf. Psalm 2:4; 11:4; 103:19; I Thess. 1:10; 4:16; 2 Thess. 1:7).
It caused me to wonder, what are your thoughts about heaven? Why do you think more people are concerned with hell than heaven? Why do you think the tales of heaven are usually completely fanciful and false? Clouds, harps, people in diapers and such?
Thoughts?
Our father (1)
who art in heaven (2) <- Place I'm stuck.
It caused me to really note a few things.
1 - As with the Bible, so is in contemporary literature: there is a whole lot more out there about heaven that is serious studying, then there is about hell with it's fanciful tales of "I've been to heaven and back." We see Stephen and Paul talk about similar encounters, but Paul especially not want to mention anymore of it because he saw it as unnecessary (2 Cor. 12:3-7).
2 - But for the purposes of the Lord's prayer, Jesus could and probably is referring to heaven as the throne of God (cf. Psalm 2:4; 11:4; 103:19; I Thess. 1:10; 4:16; 2 Thess. 1:7).
It caused me to wonder, what are your thoughts about heaven? Why do you think more people are concerned with hell than heaven? Why do you think the tales of heaven are usually completely fanciful and false? Clouds, harps, people in diapers and such?
Thoughts?