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feels commonly held interpretations of heaven and hell plus salvation are misrepresentations of what Jesus and the Scriptures actually said when one carefully examines His comments and the Greek of His and other quotes in the Bible plus the reader places them in a proper cultural context. He suggests, current interpretations of these three issues, heaven, hell and salvation's way are "the traditions of men" which the Bible warns about Jesus Followers being tripped up by. gfp (2012-05-04)

These passages from John 14 were shared by my Friend, Bruce Malcolm, at the Funeral service for my Mom, Ina Donelda Patton (aka Donnie (family) & Donna (friends). These passages confirm the eternal promise of Jesus to His Followers, of which my Mom was one, that they will spend eternity with Him in His mansions in heaven. Each human is a "spiritual being in a temporary earth suit". And, therefore, we each will live forever. The only question is where we will spend the non-earthly part of our eternity ...in what Jesus called "heaven" or "hell". The answer to that question depends solely on whether one chooses to believe that Jesus was "a liar", "a lunatic" or "Lord" of us all and "God Incarnate", His eternal "Son" who choose to die on a cross to pay the full penalty for our sin nature & sins which our "good works" cannot pay for. In addition to the above passages, another Friend, Adele Van Caulart, read Psalm 23 ...another source of great assurance of God's love and His peace for my Mom and me. gfp (2012-04-04)