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Blessedx4
July 18th, 2008, 11:28 AM
people need to hear the truth......

Posted on Jul 17, 2008 | by Norm Miller

GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)--Have you ever noticed that when a discussion turns to a recently deceased celebrity, someone invariably says, "I know he's looking down on us right now"? It doesn't matter how godless the person was, his peers refer to him as being in a better place and then gesture skyward.

Mark Coppenger, professor of Christian apologetics at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, sees a lamentable example of that in the 1941 poem "High Flight," which was quoted in tribute to astronauts who died in the 1986 explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
"Everywhere you turn, culture ignores the Bible to make gassy pronouncements on the afterlife,"
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alabama35565
July 20th, 2008, 09:56 AM
it's not just celebrities either......it really makes me feel sort of odd when someone says that about a person i know or someone who is just well known in the community but not knowing for sure where their salvation is .......happens a lot on our local discussion board .......but i don't get into that because it makes some people really mad if you say anything or ask them if they know for sure that person is in Heaven.