Seven of Everything

Dear Debi, I enjoy our brief conversations. They always get me thinking and encourage me to do better and be better; even when we disagree, I feel that your opinions are heart felt and made out of love. I was discussing with a coworker a few weeks ago a concept I've believed for decades which I am about to share with you; and, I was able to put it into new, and hopefully better, words using different scenarios: The spirit of contention is of the devil - If you take two people who each understand the Doctrine of Christ 99% and they constantly focus on and argue about the 2% they don't understand and disagree on, eventually, they will lose all the understanding they had including their belief in God and Christ. On the other hand, you take two people who each only understanding 1% of true doctrine and have 99% misunderstandings and wrong opinions about all kinds of things, but they approach each other with love, a desire to know and understand more truth, reject the spirit of cont...

The Kingdom of God After we are resurrected, those who go back to heaven will enter the kingdom of God. This is called salvation and eternal life. This is the greatest gift of God. Revelation from God shows us that although everyone who fully repents will be saved in the kingdom of God, not everyone will receive the same glory from God. Those who were the most wicked in this life and did many bad things, after they repent and are resurrected, they will receive a glory comparable to the stars in the sky in brightness. Because these people have been so bad, repentance will be both very hard and very painful but because of Jesus Christ it will be possible. It will also be worth the difficulty because they will become clean and holy. These people will enter the kingdom of God and be in a lower kingdom called the telestial kingdom. These people will receive the Holy Spirit and become servants of God. Those who were mostly good in this life, after they repent and are resurrected will recei...