I don't believe in any god or gods, but if when I die I find myself face to face with your version of him, I'll call him out as a liar, a bully, a cheat, a fraud, and an unmitigated bastard. What could he do to me at that point that'd make things any worse for me, condemn me for eternity plus a week? I'm already condemned for all time according to you, there's nothing more to lose, so he's going to hear about what a dick I think he is for doing that to me.
Before that face-to-face meeting you reference do these other parameters have any effect on your prepared speech (which can be altered up until that very moment)?
You need to be made alive again in order to be face-to-face. By way of introduction, death is just how many meet Christ, at best that is death and sleep and at worst hell is 1,000 years. Both groups are face-to-face with the one who sent 'their killer' at Judgement Day. Calling God names doesn't rate death and torment, delight in causing pain and suffering to another person is enough to get a person torment added to their 'stay'. Much as you dislike the idea that 'act of kindness' keeps them from qualifying for the lake which is a much worse punishment. Say you have been given the worse route and you are given 1,000 years to practice what you are going to say once you are face-to-face. That is enough to set your mood, the place God has chosen to give you that opportunity is only after the ringleader Satan has been punished. Since you are from a line of long dead ancestors you have to wait your turn and what they have to say to God is heard by every-body there and eventually you get your turn and there may or may not be anybody standing behind you. It could be no-one if from that point on if all your children would have been believers they would be in the 'bleachers' already. So now the place of that first meeting is know no sense letting your appearance remain unknown.
Re:7:9: ... before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
I would think in all likelyhood you will be doing some revisions before you say anything.
I would try everything in my power to kill the bastard before he can pronounce his sentence. But the concept of such a god is completely foreign to me so I know that will never happen. I'm more like AnnaG - the gods just don't give a damn about all these pesky little, self indulgent carbon based units.
Then you would not even be 'pesky' perhaps more a particle of dust floating around a banquet where the 'quest' are acting much like hungry and thirsty Vikings after a long day of war in which much blood of others was shed. A speck of dust that does not escape detection of their keen eyes. What are you going to say about the one they 'work for'? (IMWITHHIM is the password) They already have you name, know the little I do about you they would pass you by and continue on hunting the ones described in Re:16.
Joe:2:6:
Before their face the people shall be much pained:
all faces shall gather blackness.
Joe:2:7:
They shall run like mighty men;
they shall climb the wall like men of war;
and they shall march every one on his ways,
and they shall not break their ranks:
Joe:2:8:
Neither shall one thrust another;
they shall walk every one in his path:
and when they fall upon the sword,
they shall not be wounded.
Joe:2:9:
They shall run to and fro in the city;
they shall run upon the wall,
they shall climb up upon the houses;
they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Joe:2:10:
The earth shall quake before them;
the heavens shall tremble:
the sun and the moon shall be dark,
and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
You will have to suffer meeting Christ face-to-face as described in Re:10
Re:10:2:
And he had in his hand a little book open:
and he set his right foot upon the sea,
and his left foot on the earth,
Now you get to say those things in a face-to-face setting, same question I gave Dex, would you change anything and if yes, why promote something as fact (what you would say) when those words cannot be determined before hand.
