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What is the biblical basis for seeing Saint Peter at the gates of heaven?
This view is based primarily on Matthew 16:18–19, in which Jesus says:
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 ...
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What happens in heaven if you remarry?
Matthew 22:23-30
23 The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, 24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his ...
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What is the biblical basis for seeing Saint Peter at the gates of heaven?
The idea of Peter at the gates of heaven with the keys has a long history that is sourced to the bible. Of course, as things go, sourcing alone and understanding the source may be two different ...
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What is the Biblical Basis for saying that we "go to heaven"?
This is actually the dominant view of Christianity: the doctrine of an intermediate state after death and before the resurrection. "Going to heaven" means being with God in a non-bodied but conscious ...
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What are the names of two thieves who were crucified along with Jesus?
Gospel of Nicodemus
The earliest known record of the thieves' names occurs in the anonymous work which eventually (several centuries later) became known as the Gospel of Nicodemus. The work is ...
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What is the biblical basis for the belief that people do not go to heaven or hell immediately when they die?
Introduction
I intend to show that the concept of a universal realm for all, outside Heaven, where all await the resurrection (Waiting in the Grave, WitG hereafter) is united against other beliefs ...
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Why is faith the quality that God chooses to reward?
Clarifying righteousness
First, let's review the Biblical meaning of righteousness. The first paragraph of the Righteousness article of Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology edited by ...
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Are there modern cases (1900 - present) of heavenly visitations recognized and endorsed by a denomination?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has several cases of heavenly visitations that are recognized and endorsed, but only one comes to mind that is after 1900 (doesn't explicitly state ...
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Are there modern cases (1900 - present) of heavenly visitations recognized and endorsed by a denomination?
About the experience
At the outset, denominations would not automatically say that these experiences have no value to the people who experience them, but that they should be careful on how to ...
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What is "jubilee(s)"?
In the Hebrew Bible, Jubilee refers to a set of practices around forgiveness of debts and restoration of land. Basically, every 7 years the people were supposed to hold a "sabbath" for the land and ...
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How does one explain God being outside the universe yet on the throne in heaven without violating divine simplicity?
There is no throne 'room' in scripture.
There is the concept of a throne given to us for our understanding.
Since God created all things, heavens (plural) and earth, he cannot be 'part' of that ...
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If we will have free will and be sinless in Heaven at the same time, then why did God not create a world with sinless free creatures to begin with?
Introduction
I see your question as boiling down to the following: There is no sin in heaven, but free will continues; is it possible for God to create such a world via fiat? If yes, why did he create ...
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What is the biblical basis for those in heaven being able to pray for the living?
You already mentioned that you had seen support for this in the Apocrypha (otherwise known as the Deuterocannonical text). As such, it became a Tradition to ask the Saints for intercessory prayers, ...
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Mormon understanding of what kind of bodies people have in heaven
LDS scriptures can be found here.
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (which I am) believe the following:
1) Yes, we believe that "resurrection" means the reuniting of the ...
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On the body of Satan and Holy Ghost and angels according to Mormons
1) We believe that Satan does not have and will never have a physical body. Isa. 14:12:
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how
art thou cut down to the ground, which ...
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Is it morally commendable to volunteer your own life to go to Hell in place of someone else?
It is pride for any human to think that they can redeem another fellow human being.
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; [whether material wealth or ...
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According to mainstream Christian groups, is it the soul or the body that goes to heaven?
The confusion here lies in an equivocation on the terms "heaven" and "hell." That is, the term heaven is used at different times to signify different states of affairs.
In ...
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Communion of Saints and Our Relationships in Heaven
How could a community be truly united without a "deep and intimate relationship with each of its members to its full extent"?
Pope Pius XII discusses the Communion of the Saints in his 1943 ...
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Will we still feel affection towards others when we are in heaven?
We are not quite sure how our affectivity (emotions, passions, and so on) will work in Heaven before the General Resurrection, however the Church teaches dogmatically that all human beings will ...
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Will family members get to visit each other if separated into different kingdoms in heaven?
The main verses of scripture that apply to this are D&C 76:86–88, which is in the section of D&C 76 that discusses those in the telestial kingdom:
86 These [those in the telestial kingdom] ...
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According to Mormons, what is the benefit received from paying tithes and following the temple ceremonies?
Expanding on my comment of
who wants 2nd or 3rd place prize/reward when anyone can have the 1st place prize
The degrees of glory are described in 1 Corinthians 15:40-41
40 There are also celestial ...
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Can Saints in Heaven Refuse to Pray for us?
The Mortal Sin Issue
I can see where the premise of this question comes from. We always have free choice, even for those in heaven. And the first letter of John tells us to not pray for those who ...
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Are there any Christian denominations that believe in sex and marriage in the afterlife?
The LDS Church teaches that while not all marriages are eternal (see Luke 20:34-35), but that a marriage which is sealed is, and will continue in heaven. Additionally parents that are sealed to their ...
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Is there any clue/hint in the Bible that tells us “why or how” we won't sin on heaven?
Great metaphysical thinking here! I like your reasoning that leads to the conclusions:
We can't blame the material world for the existence of sin.
Experiencing the presence/power in heaven or via ...
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What is the Biblical Basis for saying that we "go to heaven"?
First, I would quote from the Hebrew scriptures in the Tanakh:
“You guide me with your counsel, and afterwards you will take me into glory.” (Psalm 73:24)
“But God will redeem my life from the ...
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Why did Jesus need to die for our sins?
A Baptist would point back to the garden of Eden and the nature of the problem. There are sins that a person commits by an act of the will in opposition to what is known to be right and there are ...
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Why is faith the quality that God chooses to reward?
The Bible states that, "Without faith, it is impossible to please [God]; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him" (...
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According to Calvinists, why does God not predestine all to Heaven?
So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said ...
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According to the LDS church, how are we justified?
There maybe some difference in meaning of salvation
Salvation from physical death: all people die. But through the atonement/resurrection of Jesus Christ all people will be resurrected-saved from ...
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