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Good evening @crazywriter,

Thank you for your response.  I always refer back to Scripture, for whatever we may think about a concept, it should always return to God’s Word as a starting point:

All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: [2 Timothy 3:16 KJV]

Any doctrinal difference we may have can arise from an interpretation, but we would always be better served to go back to Scripture, rather than tradition.  Even the Apostle Paul, learned and steep in scholarship as he was, missed Christ’s identity until his Damascus Road encounter because he formerly relied on a tradition to label Christ and His followers as heretics, before his humbling and conversion.  In Acts 17:10-11, the Bereans were considered nobler because they used the scriptures as the ultimate truth source to validate Paul’s words.

My personal opinion matters little. Romans 3:4 says, “…Let God be true and every [man] a liar…” so, I freely admit to being on a learning curve, subject to what God reveals to me as I grow and mature in the continual study of His Word.

But let me pose a few questions to you, that may seem unrelated:

1. Do you believe that those biblical persons mentioned in Hebrews 11 who died before Christ was born are presently in Heaven?

2. If you answered “Yes,” when Christ said [John 14:6 NKJV], “…I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” How do you reconcile that?

3. In C.S. Lewis’s “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” Chapter 5, Peter and Susan go to their Uncle Digory (The Professor) distressed over Lucy’s seeming lie and having been away in Narnia for “hours and hours.”  Why did this make sense to the Professor, which seemed to give credence to Lucy’s story?

Let’s start there.  The answers are truly fascinating in Scripture but they are often overlooked.  The C.S. Lewis is a bit of a slant, I grant you, but I will ask a further question depending on your answer.

Denali (@denali-christianson) see what you started? 😉 [grins]