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Date Posted: 21:03:17 08/14/07 Tue
Author: Neysa
Author Host/IP: user-38lcibm.dialup.mindspring.com / 209.86.73.118
Subject: Catie............
In reply to: Joan 's message, "OK, back to our regularly scheduled program" on 04:03:42 08/12/07 Sun

I did read your post yesterday. Then, you posted asking me about the Pope. That took me most of the day to answer. When I was finished I was emotionally drained. I was feeling sluggish all day today. As I said I'm a night owl, so I'm wide awake now. Thank you for bumping the post up so I didn't have to look for it.

When I first starting reading your reply, I thought wow, I never heard of that. I just thought that we were made up of two parts body and the soul. To me the spirit is the soul. I found your view to be very interesting that a person is made up of three parts body, soul, spirit.

I never really gave much thought about the soul in death. I just thought that your soul is either having a great time in heaven, sad in purgatory because it is not in heaven with Jesus. Suffering terrible anguish in hell.

You mentioned that the soul 'sleeps' ( rests) in death that it has no sense of time. I believe that, it really makes sense to me. Once your dead why would you need a sense of time.

Catie, you mentioned that when Christ returns our old body will be recreated, and given back to us. My question is this: Lets say a person was in an accident, and lost a foot. Will that person be given back the body he had before the accident, or the body when he was crippled?

Lastly, you stated that you believe that no one can go straight to heaven upon death. Where do you believe they go? Do Protestants believe in purgatory ?

Once, again thank you for sharing your religious beliefs.

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[> [> Neysa -- Catie, 07:29:22 08/15/07 Wed [1] (h69.42.91.75.ip.alltel.net/75.91.42.69)

"My question is this: Lets say a person was in an accident, and lost a foot. Will that person be given back the body he had before the accident, or the body when he was crippled?"

According to scripture in the new testament, our new bodies will be whole. According to the bible, there will be no sickness, no lame, no blindness, no broken parts in heaven. :)

"Do Protestants believe in purgatory?"

No. Protestants, on the whole, do not believe in purgatory.

"Lastly, you stated that you believe that no one can go straight to heaven upon death. Where do you believe they go?"

Because a person is made up of 3 parts there's it divides accordig to scripture. I believe the body decays. The breath, spirit, goes back to God where it came from. That means there is no soul (because it requires a body and spirit to make up a soul)As I stated, the brain needs breath to function. Our brain, wihout life, without breath, doesn't think. There are no consciousness. It is made up of flesh and will decay, God created it that way. Again, at death our spirit-( which is breath,life), goes back to God. It belongs to him. (2 Cor. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.")

So we all go to God when we die,(our spirits)and stay there until the day God releases our spirit to reunite it with our new body, which will be the end of mortal time as we know it "We will be changed, in the twinkling of an eye. This corruptible shall put on incorruptible." Then judgement. Then eternity. To those who die it will be as if they've just closed their eyes when they are called
from the grave to reunite with their bodies.

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