NFS, Have you never read, or do you not believe, the Lord Jesus' words of Revelation 1:18?
"I am HE THAT LIVETH, AND WAS DEAD; and, behold, I AM ALIVE EVERMORE, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death."
What better witness can one find to prove there is an "afterlife" than the words of none other than The Lord Jesus Christ Himself; the One who "was dead" and that now "liveth"?
Do you deny that Christ Jesus arose from the dead and now liveth evermore? If so, you're denying the "only" One that is able to save you!
NFS, Have you never read, or do you not believe, the Lord Jesus' words of Revelation 1:18?
"I am HE THAT LIVETH, AND WAS DEAD; and, behold, I AM ALIVE EVERMORE, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death."
What better witness can one find to prove there is an "afterlife" than the words of none other than The Lord Jesus Christ Himself; the One who "was dead" and that now "liveth"?
Do you deny that Christ Jesus arose from the dead and now liveth evermore? If so, you're denying the "only" One that is able to save you!
Just saying ....
There is so much I could say here, but I'll say this much; even if I did believe everything you say here, that still doesn't prove there IS an Afterlife.
It only proves that I believe in something that cannot be proven.
Personally, I don't believe the Book of Revelation should have been added to the Canon in 397 A.D. (Old Testament--New Testament--Back to the Old Testament, with fire, judgment, and no mercy on the weak, with a Book that cannot be interpreted.)
Just read the Gospels; the Jesus that walked in this life is not the same Jesus in the Book of Revelation, where mass killing and bloodshed fill the Earth with unprecedented suffering. If we believe the Gospels, when Jesus said, "It is finished", it is finished.
I believe in the afterlife, I believe people have near death experiences, but that doesn't mean I KNOW there are those things. I hope so, though. Except I hope there isn't a hell. I hope there is compassion for everyone. Maybe people will be given some sort of a chance over there. I would like to think so. It's hard for me to believe God is loving and all compassionate when there is a hell that he would throw those he considers his children into over, especially over some technicality like the preacher saying the wrong words over someone when they were baptized.
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There is so much I could say here, but I'll say this much; even if I did believe everything you say here, that still doesn't prove there IS an Afterlife.
It only proves that I believe in something that cannot be proven.
Personally, I don't believe the Book of Revelation should have been added to the Canon in 397 A.D. (Old Testament--New Testament--Back to the Old Testament, with fire, judgment, and no mercy on the weak, with a Book that cannot be interpreted.)
Just read the Gospels; the Jesus that walked in this life is not the same Jesus in the Book of Revelation, where mass killing and bloodshed fill the Earth with unprecedented suffering. If we believe the Gospels, when Jesus said, "It is finished", it is finished.
A lot of Revelation can and has been interpreted (Since a lot of it comes from Daniel)
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Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
Every sinner must repent of their sins.
That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
The resurrection of Jesus, the firstfruits of them that sleep, is the best evidence of an afterlife and the only one we need. How can NDE's prove life after death if they were only near death and never actually died?
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