Originally posted by rwingett
Score one for Satan. Your impious comments have been preserved in my responses. When you go up to the pearly gates, St. Peter is going to see that on your permanent record.
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Score one for Satan. Your impious comments have been preserved in my responses. When you go up to the pearly gates, St. Peter is going to see that on your permanent record.
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This has nothing to do with your, um, discussion, but I'll humor you.
1.) It is a curious fellow who cheers for a "point" for Satan. Why rejoice in that? (if that is what you mean by "Score one point" )
2.) My words are recorded (and yours) by something much more effective then this computer. If you think that I think that I can escape giving an account to God for my words because of erasing the post, you totally misunderstand.
I erase so that it will cause no more damage than necessary to readers. It is not because I am so foolish to think I can obliterate the record of my sins before God with a PC Delete Button of some kind.
3.) There is no particular reason to call Peter
St. Peter. Every believer in Christ is a
saint. Stainthood is not a special status confered upon some disciples above other disciples.
4.) The blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanses us from all sins. If we confess our sins He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
It is unconfessed sins which have to be acknowledged and confessed at some time. If do not confess my sin in this age, in the next age that sin must be brought out from the record and I must confess and deal with it at that time.
5.) And of course the pearl gate in Revelation is symbolic. There is no oyster which produces a giant perl gate to heaven.
The pearl gates to the New Jerusalem represent the life of Christ poured out and secreted around the offender just as an oyster secrets a liquid from itself around a particle of sand.
When a particle of sand gets into an oyster the oyster secrets this liquid around the offending particle that is wounding it. This causes a pearl to be formed.
The spiritual significance to the pearl gates in Revelation is that Jesus came to this world like an oyster to the bottom of the sea. This world is like the bottom of a sea of sin and death. On the cross of Calvary we all wounded Him with our sins. We wounded Him with our trangressions. In His love and sacrifice He poured out His life for the sinner.
This pouring out of the life for the sinner envolopes the sinner and transforms the offending sinner into something precious before God. This is why the GATE into the eternal kingdom of God is symbolically seen as a PEARL GATE. It is THROUGH the poured out life of Jesus that we enter into the eternal city of God. His pouring out of His life because of our offenses is our very entrance into the kingdom of God.
(Now back to your discussion)