Do people go to Heaven, though?

People live in the afterlife either in God's Kingdom and bask in eternal bliss and the uncreated light of God or outside of it - in darkness, misery and desperation. It depends on their life, free will to choose God and their soul's disposition. People can experience both heaven and hell even here on Earth. A person who rejects God is in hell even if he doesn't realize it but as long as he lives he can repent. Saints experience immense bliss by reaching theosis (becoming like God, restoring the likeness which we lost due to the fall of Adam).

Our fate is sealed on the day of judgment which will happen when the world ends.

What about the death toll from (XYZ+), what's up with those events?

What about it? Death is the result of the fall. Our world is fallen and the only path to salvation is through Christ. There is no utopia here on Earth. God allows for these things to happen because it's all part of His providence. We cannot know why He allows it because we don't have the full picture. But He does - Him being all-knowing means He knows everything - future, present and past. All suffering is the result of our own free will and us choosing sin and death over the truth and the life - over God.

And how do you know WHAT the 1K years of the devil being imprisoned were? Or even that it was in the past??? There is nothing in the Bible referring to that specifically.

This is the Church's teaching that is based on interpretation of Scripture. The Bible itself is a divinely inspired liturgical text of the Church tradition. I understand you grapple with this because you've been taught all your life the protestant doctrines of Sola Scriptura, but the truth is that the Bible is the product of the Church and the Bible canon (the books that go in the Bible) were decided very late (about 7thc) by the ecumenical councils. Yet the teachings and structure of the apostolic Church remained unchanged since Christ established it even before the Bible was compiled. And they remain unchanged to this day. God has promised us that the Holy Spirit will guide the Church and the gates of hell won't prevail over it.

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Do people go to Heaven, though?

People live in the afterlife either in God's Kingdom and bask in eternal bliss and the uncreated light of God or outside of it - in darkness, misery and desperation. It depends on their life, free will to choose God and their soul's disposition. People can experience both heaven and hell even here on Earth. A person who rejects God is in hell even if he doesn't realize it but as long as he lives he can repent. Saints experience immense bliss by reaching theosis (becoming like God, restoring the likeness which we lost due to the fall of Adam).

Our fate is sealed on the day of judgment which will happen when the world ends.

What about the death toll from (XYZ+), what's up with those events?

What about it? Death is the result of the fall. Our world is fallen and the only path to salvation is through Christ. There is no utopia here on Earth. God allows for these things to happen because it's all part of His providence. We cannot know why He allows it because we don't have the full picture. But He does - Him being all-knowing means He knows everything - future, present and past. All suffering is the result of our own free will and us choosing sin and death over the truth and the life - over God.

And how do you know WHAT the 1K years of the devil being imprisoned were? Or even that it was in the past??? There is nothing in the Bible referring to that specifically.

This is the Church's teaching that is based on interpretation of Scripture. The Bible itself is a divinely inspired liturgical text of the Church tradition. I understand you grapple with this because you've been taught all your life the protestant doctrines of Sola Scriptura, but the truth is that the Bible is the product of the Church and the Bible canon (the books that go in the Bible) were decided very late (about 7thc) by the ecumenical councils. Yet the teachings and structure of the apostolic Church remained unchanged since Christ established it even before the Bible was compiled. And they remain unchanged to this day. God has promised us that the Holy Spirit will guide the Church and the gates of hell won't prevail over it.

Do people go to Heaven, though?

People live in the afterlife either in God's Kingdom and bask in eternal bliss and the uncreated light of God or outside of it - in darkness, misery and desperation. It depends on their life, free will to choose God and their soul's disposition. People can experience both heaven and hell even here on Earth. A person who rejects God is in hell even if he doesn't realize it but as long as he lives he can repent. Saints experience immense bliss by reaching theosis (becoming like God, restoring the likeness which we lost due to the fall of Adam).

Our fate is sealed on the day of judgment which will happen when the world ends.

What about the death toll from (XYZ+), what's up with those events?

What about it? Death is the result of the fall. Our world is fallen and the only path to salvation is through Christ. There is no utopia here on Earth. God allows for these things to happen because it's all part of His providence. We cannot know why He allows it because we don't have the full picture. But He does - Him being all-knowing means He knows everything - future, present and past.

And how do you know WHAT the 1K years of the devil being imprisoned were? Or even that it was in the past??? There is nothing in the Bible referring to that specifically.

This is the Church's teaching that is based on interpretation of Scripture. The Bible itself is a divinely inspired liturgical text of the Church tradition. I understand you grapple with this because you've been taught all your life the protestant doctrines of Sola Scriptura, but the truth is that the Bible is the product of the Church and the Bible canon (the books that go in the Bible) were decided very late (about 7thc) by the ecumenical councils. Yet the teachings and structure of the apostolic Church remained unchanged since Christ established it even before the Bible was compiled. And they remain unchanged to this day. God has promised us that the Holy Spirit will guide the Church and the gates of hell won't prevail over it.

Do people go to Heaven, though?

People live in the afterlife either in God's Kingdom and bask in eternal bliss and the uncreated light of God or outside of it - in darkness, misery and desperation. It depends on their life, free will to choose God and their soul's disposition. People can experience both heaven and hell even here on Earth. A person who rejects God is in hell even if he doesn't realize it but as long as he lives he can repent. Saints experience immense bliss by reaching theosis (becoming like God, restoring the likeness which we lost due to the fall of Adam).

Our fate is sealed on the day of judgment which will happen when the world ends.

What about the death toll from (XYZ+), what's up with those events?

What about it? Death is the result of the fall. Our world is fallen and the only path to salvation is through Christ. There is no utopia here on Earth.

And how do you know WHAT the 1K years of the devil being imprisoned were? Or even that it was in the past??? There is nothing in the Bible referring to that specifically.

This is the Church's teaching that is based on interpretation of Scripture. The Bible itself is a divinely inspired liturgical text of the Church tradition. I understand you grapple with this because you've been taught all your life the protestant doctrines of Sola Scriptura, but the truth is that the Bible is the product of the Church and the Bible canon (the books that go in the Bible) were decided very late (about 7thc) by the ecumenical councils. Yet the teachings and structure of the apostolic Church remained unchanged since Christ established it even before the Bible was compiled. And they remain unchanged to this day. God has promised us that the Holy Spirit will guide the Church and the gates of hell won't prevail over it.