At least not the God of the Bible, mayube a sort of generic God. It distresses me to hear people carry on about their experiences that have proved to them there is an afterlife, of course a happy afterlife, or that they are in communication with loved ones who have died and so on. I want to warn them, I want to make them look at the Bible and realize it's not just another metaphysical text but the actual word of the God who made them, but even finding quotes from the Bible has become almost impossible for me these days. and they'd dismiss it anyway, or most of them would.
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There certainly is an afterlife. We' re immortal souls. Once conceived we live forever in one state or another. And there are only two states, 4either in Hell or in Heaven. And the only way we can get to heaven is through the death and resurrection of Jedsus Christ. That's it. That's all. But that had to be revealed, there is no way fallen humanity would ever come to such a view of things. All that is possible to fallen humanity is impressions from our broken spirikt that was broken at the Fall, and the exertions of demons in their neverneding plots to dec4eive us and lead us away from the truth. they can fabricate lovely visions and otherworldl.yl places, all sorts of strange machinery that they make us bvelieve come from other planets or galaxies or maybe other dimensions to "help" us or the like. theyh impersonate people who have diedand show up in seances to reassure their families that they are in a good place, or they haunt houses or whatever.
Gosh what a downer al these realities are though. tHEY'D MUCH RATHER HAVE THEIR PRETTY IDEAS, THEY WANT TO BE ENCOURAGED THAT THEY WIKLL HAVE A HAPPY AFTERLIFE, THAT THEIR LOVED ONES WHO DIED BEOFRE THEM ARE HAPPY WHERE THEY ARE AND SO ON. iT SEEMS ALMOST CRUEL TO TRY TO DISSUADE THEM FROM SUCH IDEAS. lET THEM BE HAPPY, THEY'LL BE UNHAPPY ENOUGH EVRDNTUALLY.
bUT TBut that doesn't give them a cvhance to find the true happiness of eternal life in Christ. They may reject it but shouldn't they begiven the chance? Would they really prefer the primrose path the demons concoct for them if they had any idea that it's all a deception that is only going to lead them to a miserable eternity?
It's all "doctrines of demons,
Well, what the world's general descent into evil of all sorts these days, the insanities and absurdities we're being told are realities, such as that a biological male is really a female if he so wills it and tht sort of thing , it's all piling up around us and a massive increase in occultic and paranormal interest is just another trend toward total breakdown of all the structures of life we depend on. Surely this must mean that Jesus is coming back soon. I hope. But I suppose it's going to have to get worse before that.
