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Originally Posted by Timmy
Forgot to give you my "angle". 
OK, a followup for those who said "yes": Does that mean you think God will do a better job of it, next time?
Also, are you sure it won't start out perfect, like earth did, and then go seriously haywire at some time, like earth did? |
I think God did what he meant to do this time, for us to acknowledge a perfection and ultimate good we have to know there is abomination and an ultimate evil. I believe that's why our time here is so short to go ahead and get all of these sufferings and things out of the way so that when we come into his glory we will have a basic understanding of the difference and who he truly is, and based on the "weeding out" of the harvest here it ensures that those chosen will know who God is and what his purpose is, the rest will be explained to us in those days. Life is short and full of troubles, but so it must be for us to even be able to understand the concept of eternal perfection.
As for going haywire...
I believe the some of the purpose here on earth is to assure that it doesn't happen again. A deacon at my church spoke of a verse once where those in heaven will be able to look over into the lake of fire and see the souls in anguish, I will ask him what verse this was in the meantime I will search for it myself so don't quote me on it yet.
Kind of like one of those rubbing your nose in it deals. Where satan left heaven with 1/3 of its hosts and was cast down here unto earth and given a domain, then god created us from the earth in satans domain and at the end time coming to gather the church up out of satans kingdom which is 1/3 of earths population seems like an eye for an eye.
Also the fact that he will create a new heaven and a new earth filled with only the souls of the righteous, after having seen all of the things of this life and seeing what happened to those who did not choose God as well as having our experiences/testimonies for all of heaven to hear and see, I don't believe that anything could happen at that point to make it all go haywire.
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