Your Toughest Questions on Heaven Answered: A Conversation with Randy Alcorn
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- Will there be animals in heaven? How can Christians enjoy Heaven if their loved ones are in Hell? In this video, I ask Randy Alcorn the toughest (and most common) questions about Heaven and we take live questions too.
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I read “Heaven” twice. My wife was reading it before she went home to be with Jesus. I found “Heaven” to be very comforting to me since I wanted to be with her again.
And in God's time, you will be. For now, however, you must continue to go on with your own life. That is the best way, I believe, to honor both God, and you're beautiful wife. God bless you, Jim, one year later, and Maranatha.
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I've seen this movie (documentary really) six times now, and I highly recommend it. It's a great way to share the gospel with the unsaved.
This is so COMFORTING. My best friend of 44 years...she was 83 yrs old, just died and Ive been grieving. I am so comforted.
Thank you for sharing the detail of your spiritually guided wisdom. My son went to heaven 23 months ago. My soul aches and cries every day to be reunited with him & be with Jesus. This chaotic life on earth has completely worn me out. I long for the day that Jesus guides me across the finish line to finally graduate from this place.
Jesus has done a lot for me . He saved my wife 4 years ago. He doesn’t hesitate to use even supernatural means to intervene on behalf of Christians. I feel like I have 1 foot on earth and 1 in heaven.
God bless you sir. Your comment really touched me. I hope you are coping a little better theses days. I certainly understand that feeling of longing to be done with this earth and finally at home with Jesus and our loved ones.
My husband died 10 months ago, can’t wait to see him again. You will see your son again
My husband is there, and I can’t wait to be with him
The Promise of Heaven-with the photographs-was giving to me when my husband died-it is a treasure.
Conversations like these truly give me peace that passes all understanding. All of these answers rang completely true in my spirit. Thank you for this Sean, after losing my Dad on February 1st, I really needed this. Thinking about the new earth changes all of our interactions we have now in a very dynamic way that keeps us in a state of peace and urgency to tell all of what we have to look forward to, praise God!!! Thank you my Lord Jesus!
This Channel here is 'friendly and warm', it seems,
but so is 'Genetically Modified Sceptic', right?
Great interview Sean with all the negative stuff going on so wonderful to hear about heaven on the new Earth whoop whoop!!
I love Randy Alcorn and his views make so much sense!!! Of course heaven will be awesome and amazing because our God is awesome and amazing! Can't wait💗💗💗
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Absolutely awesome!!! I have given your book “Heaven” Randy Alcon to 5 people God bless your work
Thank you for truth Pastor Alcorn!
Wow! What an amazing video! Thanks so much to you both. God bless!
Thank you for teaching such profound truths in such 'simple' and easily understood language. I so grateful for these podcasts.
This Channel here is 'friendly and warm', it seems,
but so is 'Genetically Modified Sceptic', right?
Awesome show... thank you both. Regarding Randy's observation on near-death experiences I know for me I have read stories about people that have had near-death experiences without anesthesia for instance in car accidents and drownings.
Thank you for such a thoughtful conversation. I really enjoyed this!
Great Question/Great Answer’s
I read his book Heaven a couple years ago, and it really challenged and encouraged me with all the scripture he pulled together. It's about 500 pages long. This interview is tough, because the whole first 1/3 of the book is just laying a foundation, and then he starts answering these type of questions. I think without the the foundation first, it's easy to dismisses these answers as arbitrary.
Fair point!
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@@slevinchannel7589 the guy has 13 subscribers. I wouldn't worry too much.
@@littleboots9800 Well, 'worry' aint quite the right word.
Its not like i fear he 'convinces the world' - but its still a negative thing, aye?
Thank you so much for answering my question.
Thank you so much for your concise answers!!
There’s no sin in the new heaven. That’s common sense
Of the videos I have watched, this is my favorite on this channel thus far.
Awesome!
I read his book Heaven years ago, and it changed my life.
Awesome
Really very helpful
This video is a good challenge to study more about what heaven really is! To distinguish between tradition and reality of what we given in the Scriptures.
Great interview. Thank you.
You bet!
1:00:00 On the question on not seeing loved ones in heaven :
When were In heaven, as Sean says earlier, our understanding will become complete
You will actually being to *praise* God for this, not praise Him because your relative is in hell, but praise Him because your understanding on true justice is now complete, and you can’t help but praise God for this attribute of His.
Glory to God🙏
I think it’s important for people to understand that the book “Heaven” is a credible theological study on the topic of the New Heavens and New Earth. I highly encourage everyone truly interested in this topic to read his text “Heaven.”
This IS but an interview, after all.
Wow, what a cool thought about children who have died possibly being resurrected at the age they were, so that their parents can raise them in the New Earth ❤️
Its covered in 100 Years old Comic-Books,
so these guys did not make this up themselves. Yeah?
I agree, fascinating thought…
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Pairing this with their 'Lets atttttack all who believe in Evolution'-Mindset,
i ask straight: Could you report/flag?
Imagine Sean, how great a basketball player you will be in your glorified supernatural body!
I was thinking that the language of heaven will be a reversal of the Tower of Babel. It’s only an idea.
Language used in heaven is likely a Holy Ghost kind of language.
I'm really glad that my wife purchased the book, 'Heaven.' Randy Alcorn brings out many good points. I want to correct something he said in another interview that has the comments turned off. Toward the end of the interview Randy brought up Matthew 27:52, about the saints that had "fallen asleep in death" were raised. Then he said that was three days before Jesus was raised. But if you read verse 53 with it, it was 'AFTER' Jesus' resurrection that they came out of the tombs. Someone who has studied the Bible as much as Randy I feel shouldn't have made a blunder like that. I still like his work and will recommend his book. He is just as much human as I however, which makes him capable of error.
Oh! I can't believe you got this guy on your channel! He's one of my favorite authors, both fiction and non fiction. I read his Heaven in early '21 and wow. Which I don't agree with everything he says, he's really made me love the idea of Heaven and spending eternity with God. Heaven is such an important read. He's right up there with Lewis for me. :3 thanks for giving me more content for him!
Whenever heaven and hell comes up I say keep in mind that heaven is in the presence of God and hell is separation and isolation from God.
Great books! I have Why ProLife & Heaven.
Randy’s thoughts on cremation vs. burial of the body (at 56:01) aligns exactly with what I’ve always believed.
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Amazing and fascinating !!! Thank you so much. I have 3 questions :
1. Will we still have opinions? Reason for asking is that different opinions leads to argumentations and possible fights.
2. The time/matter issue: is time in the spiritual heaven different from time on earth. Reason for asking: someone who died 2000 years ago, does that person have to dwell for that long to join in the new earth, or can he fast forward ?
3. Could hell actually be ‘hell on present earth ‘ ( the era between the Garden of Eden and the return of Jesus)? Reason for asking: someone who is refused to enter heaven is recycled until that person finds his way to salvation. That would fit a reincarnation view well. Just asking without knowing the scripture well enough if there could be any indication in this direction.
There will not be arguing.
In heaven time doesn't exist anymore since God is eternal so is heaven. Eternity is not time.
I don't think we will need languages I heaven..we will just totally understand each other
Concerning the reward in heaven I know only ONE and its eternal life.
There are 5 different crowns for various
rewards
@@cathy7382 We receive one price
Question: If we never sleep in heaven, why will we need a physical home and will we live with our loved ones in the same home or will we live alone?
I believe we will sleep if we want, but it won’t be necessary, which would be kinda cool
9:18 - 9:25 Is Randy referring to when he said in the Heaven book: (word for word) “However, since there’s a different sort of continuity between earthly marriage and the marriage of Christ to his church, there may also be some way in which the intimacy and pleasure we now know as sex will also be fulfilled in some higher form?”
He did write that in the book and I know he is making a guess but I’m curious to know if this is what he is referring to in this part of the video as well as more thoughts he may have on what greater thing sexual relations in this world foreshadow in the next world.
Will God be in a glorified body with us in the new heaven? Will the God continue to be in spirit and Omnipresence? How will The Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit be present in the new heaven?
He doesn’t know all this. The Bible doesn’t talk about thats. They are the same and don’t change so that answers your questions
I’m just now really following you Dr. Sean McDowell. I’m curious, do you agree with what your guest is suggesting about heaven or do you purely have guests come on for insight only vs choosing to question or “ debate “ them! I know you have both but do you ever come across someone’s “ point of view “ that you definitely disagree with however choose not to say anything?
I was very interested in this topic however the creditably of the answers seem to be “ fairytale talk” in my opinion within the first 5 minutes. Please do not take me the wrong way but I have listened to John MacArthur, R.C Sproul and Voddie Baucum who are straight forward biblical truth. From what I recall, they’re descriptions of heaven didn’t sound like all of this. Just curious did you agree with Randy Alcorn? I’m not saying he was wrong per se, just a little different than what I was thinking in the beginning for sure. Hope this makes sense.
Good to have you. I agree with some issues from my guests but not others. It’s tough as I don’t want to disagree every time with guests, but do want to ask tough Qs when necessary.
Randy Alcorn is a credible theologian. Please do read his theological study found in the book “Heaven.”
Amanda I couldn't agree more. No I don't believe our pets will be in heaven. Forever is about worshipping and praising our Lord, not placating our temporal fleshly desires. I find the reasoning on 'why there are pets' to be very yes fairy tale talk and not at all theological. I have read his book and much is to be admired; but human reasoning is what bombed out Jehovah Witness. My neighbor has these suppositions, well God is love and He would not burn people forever. Sigh. If you cannot point to a scripture and say definitively there are pets in Heaven, don't go all Disney please. Very disappointing and I too won't be finishing the video, rather will reread sections of scripture. Sean please take this to heart and keep your guests ON POINT with the Word and not opinions. There is already so much out there pulling people from the truth, we just don't need more. (and yes I do realize there is more than eternal praise and worship and I am telling you when I see our LORD face to face, the last thing on my mind will be any of my pets and I have done decades of rescue work!!)
Sean and Randy, are we too self focused making heaven more about us and how heaven will be rewards for us? Shouldn't we focus on Loving Yahweh and loving others which is when heaven and earth are one now?
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Why can't we do both? When this earth becomes really hard it's great to be able to focus on heaven. And also, why wouldn't you think about the place where you are going to spend by far the majority of your existence?
@@shelliecarlisle7586 because when you blur the line between the ABSOLUTE TRUTH OF HIS WORD and human logic and reasoning, well even the Word tells us that SPIRITUAL matters are not comprehended by the CARNAL. Be present with what the LORD has for you now and follow His heart. I see so much fleshly pandering :(
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One has a Username that truly tells it All,
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Pairing this with their 'Lets atttttack all who believe in Evolution'-Mindset,
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What about the American Dad depiction of heaven? I thought that was pretty realistic lol
1 Corinthians 13:13 states, "So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." My question is: what hope in Heaven do we have? Or, put another way,, what is our hope for eternity?
I would hope not to be stuck in the same room with a genocidal, infanticidal and slave condoning god.
@@sidepot There's a good chance you won't be. God is not on the same playing field as humans and it's His call what happens to individuals both humans and spirits.
@@sidepot Unlike man, God is not obsessed with this world. This world is a shadow cast off truth by his light. Don't get me wrong, when you say "God I'm tired", or "God this hurts", or even when you're overwhelmed by the beauty of nature and you say "thank you God", he understands. We're overwhelmed by the barrage of this world upon our senses, but behind it all is spirit. If you look deeper, you can see the spirit, and if you learn to see and hear and feel the spiritual, and read the Bible again with this spirit as a guide, your condemnation of God based on misunderstandings of physical events will fade.
If the rational part of your mind rejects what I'm saying, consider this line of reasoning instead: Presume for the sake of argument that God is real. If an infinitely complex God who knows all future events exists, his understanding of morality is by nature superior to yours - while you struggle with fact finding and questions of value and moral dessert, he doesn't. He knows not only what people do, but what they will do, and why. If he exists, you are simply not in a position to judge him morally, therefore your argument is essentially a strawman. You want to simultaneously posit a God long enough to condemn him, but not long enough to realize you cannot, it is a facade of a God you've created to attack, you're not engaging with the idea charitably. So returning to the spiritual statement above, perhaps instead act like this: if a God exists which loves you deeply, ask him to help you understand. If he does, your questions will be answered. If he doesn't, at least you truly tried to engage with the idea.
do you have free will in heaven? does god have free will, cos if i have free will does he have to wait and see what i do before he can react to what i do, or does he know what i'm going to do in advance, cos that screws with my free will, unless i can change my mind, but then god won't know in advance what i'm going to do.....
@@HarryNicNicholas Foreknowledge doesn't affect free will at all. Knowing what choices someone will make and controlling those choices are not the same thing. It's similar to the question "Can God create a rock that he can't lift?" The answer is sure, but unless he actually DOES create such a rock, he remains omnipotent. He knows what you'll do, but unless he actually controls what you do, you remain free. There's no problem here logically.
The concept described at 1:01:50 is truly horrifying to me. I don't know how anyone finds peace or love in Christianity. Imagine that my son will have everything that his family loves about him, removed from him until his (formerly) loving family in heaven no longer loves/recognizes/knows/misses him. He will have no more redeeming qualities. Everything good will be removed from him. The logical, reasonable, bible based perspective presented here, makes my skin crawl.
What's 1 John 1:5b?
Love you Randy Alcorn and I have ALL your books (signed by you!) but you cannot speak on near death experiences since you never had one.
Look up Randy Kay and John Burke.
They have both written books on the subject and they both had near death experiences. Both had transformative experiences afterwards and became ministers.
That seems to be how you can tell that this was real. (HOW DID IT TRANSFORM THE PERSON’s LIFE?)
dreams don’t transform peoples’ lives, but near death experiences do. You might want to study this more before you speak about it as an authority on the subject.
And it’s not a “dream-like” experience as you described. They all describe these experiences as being more real than this life here in this world.
John Burle’s Imagine Heaven is on youtube and compiles the common themes into a very logical presentation that is quite inspiring and comforting to people - especially those who’ve lost loved ones and pets.
A serious comment, pertaining to what language we will speak in heaven. All people spoke one language before the Tower of Babel. Might God renew that language as the language of the kingdom even though we might still have our native language as well?
don't be stupid, there is no heaven, as you almost twigged the rules of heaven aren't sustainable. it's bollocks to entice you into religion, you get stuff AFTER you die? it 's called a SCAM.
@birdracer you are stupid enough to believe in a religion.
They will have universal translators like Star Trek.
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@@HarryNicNicholas How did you reach that conclusion? If you used a brain cobbled together by chance-random processes over nearly countless millennia, then why should he be convinced by your argument? Your brain's chemical evolution is hardly a standard of logic. The conclusion you reach today will be deemed irrational in another million or so years of chemical evolution.
Arguments rest on reason. Reason rests on logic. Logic only functions if there is an unchanging standard. Biological evolution cannot produce an unchanging standard, ergo it cannot account for logic or reason. Perhaps you have another standard for your logic?
I hope to see my chickens again in heaven, and my grandma's dog...
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This is just wishful thinking 🤔. For, behold, I create new Heavens and a new earth: 🌏and the former shall not be remembered, nor come to mind. Revelation 3:12, 21:2.
that KFC will probably come back to haunt you.
Think of all those Kentucky Fried Chickens that will be in heaven and finally be able to free range.
who cleans up the poop in heaven?
It seems to me that the idea that the 3rd heaven where God’s throne is, can come down to earth is a little far fetched. But rather, that place that Jesus said he was preparing for us, up there, could possibly be the New Jerusalem that will be brought down. It will include his throne of course, but we can’t say for certain that the throne of God and the throne of Christ on earth are one and the same. My 2 cents for what it’s worth.
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Pairing this with their 'Lets atttttack all who believe in Evolution'-Mindset,
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Very little is known or told to us about Heaven.
Why might some find it an unpleasant place?
1. Maybe they dont like the idea of playing a Harp and telling a God how wonderful he is over and over (praise). Lets face it, would you wanna sit and do this with yer current Boss at work for even 1 whole year? (eternity is a long time.
2. Congrats. You made it to Heaven. Now what? Will YOU be made God of your own Planet somewhere? What if the answer is YES but you have nnooooo desire to manage/supervise a whole planet, all its people, and a record of "who makes it to heaven (later on?) and who has sinned too much and doesn't? Which leads to:
3. How much of your "Time" in Heaven (even though time may be different than it is here)...is "your own time" to use as you wish, vs. how much of your time in Heaven is spent doing "assignments" ? How much individual liberty do we each have vs. being...?...regimented? I could be all wrong about this...but who knows?
Question: if some of the children, who died before the age of accountability, would have had a chance to live but in the end would have rejected God/Jesus, would that be fair that they have eternal life?
By the way, I don't mean in anyway to ask this question to hurt those who lost children. I'm just trying to think this through.
So to sum up "we don't know".
Marriage, reflect on John 17. I am in you, you in me, they in me/us. Beyond belief, intimate love on a holographic logrhythmic level.
Heaven and Hell by Bart Ehrrman .
21:17 will we be capable of sinning on the new earth? Every sabbath and new moon day we will go before the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY and look upon the carcasses of the disobedient : Why? To make us aware that there is a penalty, a severe penalty, for sio(even one sin and it discredits every one who knew you earlier.
This is craziness. Lol
Has this guy been, (to heaven)
No. He shares in another video that he has never been to heaven.
But he has researched for many years!!
Our savior came to be born as flesh and blood. He was transformed into flesh and bone he said. So the blood seems to be tied to the Fall. We are also told that spilled blood calls out to The Father, so it can be inferred that after receiving our New Flesh, we will not need oxygen to use for energy and cellular functions (I.e no cell replication or maintenance), so no need to breathe. Opens us up to experience a ton of new environments too , given we would t have gasses inside us, we could go very deep in fluid, and probably survive very low pressure like space, as well as temperature fluctuations, nothing to boil, or fluid to freeze😂 😆 sorry for nerding out. I love this deep theology stuff
49:40 doesn’t the Bible say we will speak a pure language?
56:33 psalm 104:29 talks of those who had returned to their dust verse 30 God sent forth his spirit and they were created. Created from what?
I understand that they were created from their GENETIC DUST ( their ashes contained their genetic pattern from which God would be more than capable to reconstruct the dead people).
21:11 on the new earth we will have an incorruptible and immortal body placed upon our corruptible and mortal body, but in the 1000 year reign we will be given a new mindset the old things are passed away and will not come upon our minds or hearts Isaiah 65:17. An answer will we know our spouse or pet which will not be remembered is How Will We Know?
Dear brothers, i am Sophia DevaKumar from Tanjore, TamilNadu, India. By the grace of God recently I got your book heaven and I read it. Great book like Purpose Driven Life. Like it very much.
Brother I have one doubt. If we miss any of our loved ones (like our parents, children or friends)in heaven ( we know that they will be in the other destination, hell), how can we enjoy God and other exciting things in heaven. Won't we think always our loved ones and be worried?
@@sophiadevakumar9074 revelation 6:9-11 shows those who are in heaven. They are concerned about being avenged on the ones who killed them for their testimony of Jesus and the word of God, not about those who were not there.
Isaiah 14:7-20 has people in hell who are awakened to see Satan cast into hell, not about those who are not there.
Apparently, those in heaven are concerned about things but not about their loved ones who may not be in the area of heaven as they are. Hebrews 12:1-2 speaks about the witnesses in heaven but being with God and Jesus in heaven changes their perspective about the trials and opportunities of those on earth. Not all who are in heaven are in the same location so no one knows Where their loved ones may be, even as rewards won’t be the same for each except for eternal life which happens on the last judgment day.
Do we sleep/eat in heaven ?
no you sing sing sing for eternity "isn't god great, isn't god wonderful, isn't god all powerful and generous" you have make god feel good for eternity of course, it's all about god not YOU.
@@HarryNicNicholas Thats literally just your head-canon.
Others says other.
Many Pastors say totally different stuff from what you just said.
@@HarryNicNicholas you sound like God want slaves, this is not compatible with the source of all love
Randy takes your toughest questions. And totally dodges every one.
Can we enjoy heaven when we know thay our loved ones are in hell?
Even in this life it's not really a good idea to shoulder the choices of the people we love. We cannot control the choices they make. The Bible says God isn't happy that hell has to exist in the first place for humans because he wants everyone to choose to have a relationship with Him. Hell at the end of the day is not being in the presence of God. Being in the presence of God entails you wish a relationship with Him. You can't have one without the other. They are the ones that chose that they do not want to be in the presence of God. Hell is God respecting that choice and themselves having to take accountability for that choice. You can love someone, but if they've chosen to do things that destroy their lives in the process, that was their choice, and guilting yourself with it does no good. We don't like the idea of hell and God doesn't like the idea of hell, but hell needs to exist in order for the respect of humans free will to be honored by God and the respect of God's holiness and sovereignty to be honored by people.
@@sarahsays194 thanks Sis. Sarah
Jesus' resurrection is both embodied and transformed. This means continuity with renewal. We are created in an embodied form for life on this world, so it is logical that our resurrected future state is to dwell on a transformed, resurrected earth as opposed to disembodied souls floating around in a place called heaven. Where heaven and hell converge, that is where God and his people dwell.
If its this earth,how are all the people going to fit on it??? just a thought i have,im not sure tbh.God bless.
There will be a new earth. This one will pass away.
@@GoldenWolf248 Ahh right,many thanks,didnt even see that and it was in my face lol.God bless.
There will be no more sea Revelation 22:1, rivers and other bodies of water but no sea bc the vastness of the sea divides peoples, so without all that water we will have plenty of room!
It's horrific and I wouldn't do it, but wouldn't it be worth defying God to ensure you're children don't burn in hell eternally? To sacrifice yourself for their sake?
New heaven and a new Earth!
I think we will speak one language in eternity, maybe the language Adam and Eve spoke. The languages of the world came about because of man's sin at the Tower of Babel. We are to be one family with God in eternity. There is no reason for many languages that represent seperation from each other and our Creator.
55:00 Jesus raised to life the widow’s deceased only son. Apparently that was not a time for me judgment on the son. When the judgment comes may be at the final judgment day.(?)
*_If Heaven lacks, why isn't the common phrase, "That was earth!"_* 😕
It's a poetic expression you dimwitted moron. Meant to describe a feeling or experience that is beyond what we are used to experiencing in an everyday common life.
Rich people are going to heaven 💯
Give to poor and follow Me
There is nothing impossible to Yehowah
The sin question: isn’t sin defined in scripture as doing things against Yah’s law? So, the sin question is at the same time a law question!
sin doesn't exist, it's amde up to keep you asking for forgiveness which used to guarantee a full church on a sunday, but people aren't falling for it anymore. you can't have sin if there's no god and if you can get god to come round to my place i'd like to ask him a few questions.
but you can't.
@@HarryNicNicholas Hi Harry, i agree with you that many churches have diverted into doing things for money and fame. Unfortunately it does exist today on a big scale. What goes for the existence of the most high: how would or do you explain that you exist? Maybe you say „i see“ or „i touch“ - two senses, though i learnt that we can only see what reflects light - so we can‘t see the invisible. With Yahuah (the real name for the most high - another episode to discover) i can only suggest that you can use the sense of sound and ask him yourself: Do you exist Yahuah? If you have the courage to ask, do not be surprised to get an answer!
Minute 29:00 Sean brings up the question of, "Why shouldn't Christian's be pro-choice if fetuses go to heaven?" Randy says the same logic would apply for a two year old child, and says that would be horrific, and ask sarcastically, "Wouldn't it be an act of mercy to just kill the child?"
I'm sorry, but based on Christian logic, yes, killing both the child and the fetus would be an act of mercy. This is a big criticism that a lot of atheists have with heaven/hell theology. Luckily, most people have a natural sense of morality that prioritizes preserving human life over securing and afterlife.
But Randy's "objection" is perfectly logical. Yes, killing a child is bad, but is it infinitely bad? No. But is heaven infinitely good? According to Christians, yes. So the costs do outweigh the benefits.
That being said, Christians shouldn't start killing people to send them to heaven. There's a pretty solid chance it doesn't exist and we should value our live and the lives people around us, because we only get one chance to do so.
21:42 when Lucifer sinned and became Satan (adversary) there was no outside tempter but his own lusts (James 1:13-14); yes, we will have our own lusts to fight against. Why would the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY (the Father, then God ALMighty) show the redeemed the carcasses of the disobedient? He doesn’t relish in the death of his creations, but to warn those without knowledge (the former things don’t come to mind or upon our hearts Isaiah 65:17) of sin to NOT SIN.
Well I love Sean McDowell, However I wouldn't spend 25 bucks on a book with very little scripture to back up what he is saying!?!
He has a lot of scripture in the book!!!
Absolutely, its 500 pages and full of scripture references. Also, I was really impressed that in the introduction he welcomed people to contact him with scriptural corrections, AND that he had already published an updated version based on that feedback
Hhhm ok I will have to go find it.
I'm sorry your host just seems to Discussing his own personal preferences and how he thinks things will be but that has no bearing on fact or reality.
Welcome to religion.
This video is a fucking joke.
And just the amount of confidence in his statements and perception that he's right, knows the mind and intentions of God, is off putting and odd
christians start out with the premise that the universe is run by a pixie, so anything after that will sound ridiculous to someone who knows it's bull.
@@HarryNicNicholas you know?
If dogs go to heaven and get to chase all the squirrels they’d like, would that make it squirrel 🐿 hell?
Do the Dogs people eat go to heaven? Just like the Pigs others eat who are just as intelligent as dogs? My Aunt has pigs as pets.
I ask around because of a Good-Cause-Project to make the Internet less 'Messy'.
Point in case: Wanna hear more, perhaps? I promise it costs at no point money.
Block me the second i mention Money, ok?
Also, why is there real physical food, real physical animals, but no real physical marriage or real physical romance or real physical sex? What can intimacy with God be like there is so much better? I treasure intimacy with God, but as someone who is disabled and chronically ill, and someone with a healthy well perhaps over much need for physical love. I totally think it’s a bummer. I still want to go to heaven, but I am sad that I’m going to miss what I tasted on earth it was perfect for such a short while and then crumbled in my hands. I want more of what I had on earth, only without sin and suffering.
Marriage and intimacy was designed by God only for this earth to raise up children to populate the earth, enjoy our spouse till physical separation but mostly to have a relationship with our creator. Theres no reason to think it should carry over to the new earth, especially when God will wipe away every tear and remove from our memory the former way of life. If the only reason people want to go to Heaven is to escape the "second death", then there is a chance they won' t be actually going there.
@@rockytech51 with all due respect, I think wanting to go to heaven to escape the second death is a very good motive. Otherwise, God wouldn’t have presented us with those choices: heaven, or hell.
I think that the assumption, that the God who created heterosexuality is not going to provide something equally glorious, desirable and fulfilling in heaven, is a mistaken idea.
God loves human sexuality, and there is nothing that a husband and wife do RESPECTFULLY with each other in the privacy of the bedroom, that God Himself did not already do in His own mind before He set about creating us.
If God is capable of creating something as wonderful and joyful as sex between a husband and wife, then shouldn’t we trust Him to carry the same kind of joy and fulfillment into His eternal kingdom?
The false choice between sex and God is satanic. In Hebrews 13:4 it is said that ‘marriage is holy, and the bed is undefiled’. But the devil would tell us that we must make a choice between sex and God.
I fear that the tragic consequence will be that those who chose sex will lose everything, while those who chose God will find PHYSICAL fulfillment in heaven that transcends anything that they could’ve ever imagined here on earth.
Our mishandling of sex has been at the root of the human problem ever since Eden; when Satan used the beauty of Eve to entice her husband into rebellion against God.
the question is, do you get healed in heaven? if i have brain damage do i get an average brain or are we all einsteins in heaven? will we recognise anyone cos everyone will be perfect, so they will all look the same......
there is no afterlife, these epople talk like god speaks to them persoanlly, which is a crock.
@@HarryNicNicholas hi there, hairy. If you were to read Randy Alcorn‘s book, heaven, you will find delightful answers to your questions. Since the Bible states that we will have a glorious body like his another lonely one like the ones we have now. You can bet that you’ll have a fabulous brain in heaven.
Pleasing the flesh is what started this mess in the Garden in Genesis. In Romans 8:7...because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.... To think were going to get to heaven, and all of a sudden start pleasing the flesh, is a lack of understanding as to what our roles as priest's, and servants of the most High God really is. No disrespect intended.
Enjoying the creation of God (including food) and pleasing the flesh (by which I must assume you mean the sinful nature) are two separate things. Note the words of Paul:
"Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer."
Receiving food with thanksgiving is honoring to God. Why would that change upon our resurrection?
The Lord jumbled language at Babel didn't he, won't he just reverse that?
All of the animals we ever ate will go to heaven? 😅🙏🏼 🐄 🐖 🐓 🐟
Also if everyone ever died gets resurrected, will we fit on New Earth?
Only those who accept Jesus go to the new earth so of course there is room. Why would you limit God with such a question?
@@shelliecarlisle7586 That was a genuine question and I don’t think God was offended. 😏
@@lighteningbug7 I'm just saying of course he will make a large enough dwelling for his precious children.
Can you go to heaven if you had an abortion before you were a believer
You can be with the Lord Jesus even if you had an abortion after you were a believer. Killing an innocent life is murder; a sin. The Bible says hating another person in your heart is like murder. We have all sinned in this way. We have only to repent (which means to reject and turn away from our sin), believe in Jesus Christ for our righteousness and obey Him.
"But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God." John 1:12
"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9
"Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus," Acts 3:19-20
Yes you can Lynda.
36:08 God doesn’t bring God’s present dwelling place down to earth for the first heaven and the first earth are fled away Revelation 20:11 and there is found no place for them (Revelation 21:1-3). The new Jerusalem Does come down but, in context, it was in the new heaven and comes down from the new heaven, not even the present third heaven. Is my thought
Jesus says, no one has ascended to heaven but the Son Of God.
The problem with NDEs is that the person isn't actually dead! I'm surprised some Christians are putting so much emphasis on them. Jesus's resurrection should be all the evidence you need.
Forgive my ignorance, but NDE?
@@ArcticBlits near death experience
@@PC-vg8vn thanks
I agree with Jesus resurrection being the most important thing, but I worked on a hospital, and saw people clinically dead, hart stopped, brain activity zeroed, for almost 25 minutes, coming back and telling things that actually happened in those 25 minutes, including a car accident outside from the hospital, when the person got back, he asked about the guy in the accident... We went down to the ER and an ambulance just came, the men he described was already dead... I mean I was impossible for they to know each other, they've met outside from their bodies, one came back, the other passed... I will never forget this... There was an atheist college that converted that same day .... Pretty remarkable stuff
I kinda agree with Aquinas 😂 about everyone will be around 33 years old. According to people that have had NDEs and seen their past relatives when they died old they’ve seen them as young adults
yeah sure, people who are near death and on their way either to a fiery eternity or the soft bed of angel wings always stop off to see what the nurses are watching on television or the bar codes on bed sheets.
you people are ridiculuosly dense.
There is no biblical president that states you will be 33 Earth years of age. If you are beyond Earth and use that to mark time then how do you mark time in Heaven or can you even mark time in heaven where God is?
@@mugglescakesniffer3943 don’t press yourself. Go do something better 😂
@@HarryNicNicholas relax brokie. Don’t cause yourself too much stress trying to prove your point 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@dco8886 ?
Right now, my body is physically disabled and chronically ill. But I can’t imagine once I’m healthy and strong not wanting to be in a sexual relationship. What could possibly be better especially once I am physically and mentally healthy, then a happy life with a husband and pregnancies and children and things like that? Without a signature and mess it up, I’ll have to miss out because it won’t be available in heaven.
Yes, the Bible tells us is won't be available in the present heaven. However - what about what happens after the present heaven?! What about the possibility of you having a husband and children during the millennial reign on the present earth? Further, what about the possibility of having a husband and children during the eternity phase of life on the new earth?! I strongly believe that you will not miss out. As it was in the beginning, it will be in the end and even better.
@@gibbsthomas3201 Hey, Gibbs. I would like to believe it possible that I could have a husband and experience pregnancy and children and sex and stuff like that during the millennial reign of Christ. I was married and I have two children who are now grown up. But I so long to do this when I have no sin nature and no suffering and no disabilities, and when my husband won’t either. Thing is, he has pre-deceased me by several years so maybe I’ll end up with the same husband or a different one. It’s just that Adam and Eve could’ve experienced marriage and sex and all that fun stuff that life is about before they send. I often cuss them out. I know I shouldn’t, but I often cuss Adam and Eve out because of the things I’ve missed and even though I want to go to heaven and I don’t care what it is I just want to go there, I still feel like man I wish I’d had a chance to experience for us in paradise. Why should there be sports and pets and even technology on the new earth and saints can’t procreate? What a bummer. I had a very small taste of it. A broken, distorted taste, but it taste nonetheless. I can’t really imagine what it will be like to be married to Jesus Christ. I’m not trying to be sensual but I just can’t imagine it. Everything about my life in the new heaven and new earth will be physical except for love? I just can’t imagine how that works. Well, not that Jesus won’t hug us or pat us on the shoulder I guess, but it’s not the same. And I’ve actually read Randy’s book. It’s one of my favorites. I bought it from audible, which is a website with all kinds of neat audiobooks available. Really, it’s one of my favorites. I just can’t get used to the idea that Saints won’t be able to have babies during the thousand year millennium. I mean when I’m finally healthy and able bodied enough to do it and do it right, I’m deny the chance? Oh Lord, I hope not.
On the killing babies for instant salvation thing, one could use that same logic for adult Christians too. “I don’t want them to lose their salvation later on. So I’m gonna kill them now since it’s guaranteed.”
Bring on ritual sacrifice.
/sarcasm to the point
This video should be titled, "Softball questions that any moron could make up answers for."
Do I have to work in Heaven? I'm about done chasing my tail to make a buck.
The work we do in heaven will be based on our God given talents and interests. It will be fun and rewarding and amazing!!!
@birdracer I have experience with this question🤣 I have a down syndrome son with mental health issues and I used to tell my mom please don't talk to me about work in heaven I'm so tired!! And she would tell me when you take away sin and evil work is a wonderful God given gift.
@birdracer thank you so much for the encouragement. And condolences on your losses. Can't wait to see you on the other side🥰🥰🥰
@@shelliecarlisle7586 you found this where in the Bible??
Randy, put aside your belief your words you speak the books you read the story’s you have been told by people that really can’t prove what they say, can you physically prove their is a heaven, I can’t not say I truly believe in god and heaven but I also can’t say that I don’t whole heartily believe their isn’t, buy I guess I need more proof than just words, say so or what others believe
This Channel here is 'friendly and warm', it seems,
but so is 'Genetically Modified Sceptic', right?
Why do people think we go to heaven when we die? John 11:11-14 Lazarus sleeps = death.
4:40 are animald in heaven? Romans 8:19-23 is about the 1:000 year reign, not heaven.
Sounds like Jehovahs Witnesses theology
I thought the same thing! I have a neighbor who is big time Jehovah Witness and the human logic and reasoning is SO flawed. Sean this makes me sad you are at the edge of a slippery slope with being 'nice guy Christian' and keeping it straight to the Word!! Slippery slopes all over and you keep adding to the theory of things and not the facts. STICK WITH THE WORD OF GOD DO NOT ADD OR SUBTRACT. The carnal mind ain't gonna come up with the spiritual gold.
@@summersummer1233😅
So, there are no marriages in Heaven. The answer does not answer my question. I'm assuming that you mean, there are no new marriages in Heaven? Except for Jesus marrying the church. But! What about the married couples that are currently married here on the current earth? Will they still be married together and live together in Heaven on the new earth?
heaven shows where the mwen who made this stuff up really failed to think about what they were writing... if you believe these myths then you ahve no problem picturing hell...its bad very bad (what kind of a loving god would create hell..thats sick btw)...while he has a very difficult time imagining heaven....apparently theres no sex drinking drugs etc...the thins that we enjoy on earth...you get to see your parents again..thats fine but i enjoy their company for a day or two never mind 546,752,589,123,512,083,127,385,214,668 years...the rest of time wiht family and sucking up to god..that to me sounds like hell...anyhow luckily none of this is real and we just die...which makes this life we have so much more precious than your hopeful magical wishes