"5thWind" noway.com> wrote:

Time is the most valuable substance on this earth, and no one knows this
better than God himself. That's why he created us as eternal beings, and
made a way for us to reacquire eternal life which we forfeited by disobeing
the only commandment he gave us which was punishable by death.

"Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that
thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die"

Knowing that man would sin, he has chosen to pay the price of our sins in
his own body, even before he even created us. And all we are required to do
is to perform an act of faith, by putting our trust in his son Jesus who
paid the price of our sins, as a human being who was born in the same
condition our grandparent Adam did. His creation was physical. The creation
that involves the new Adam the converted Christian will be a spiritual one.

1 Corinthians 15:45, 49
"And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last
Adam was made a quickening spirit ...And as we have borne the image of the
earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly"

As far as eternity is concerned, the only difference between God and us is
that we have a beginning (the day we were born) and no end. Physical death
is nothing other than the moment which decides where we spend the rest of
our eternity. So therefore, if you have something to contribute, now is
always the time to do it. A lifetime is only as long as any conscious
moment, and in that simple sense we can all say that we've had many
lifetimes since we became alive. Sooner or later, one of those moments will
be our last, and the final leg of eternity will begin, just as it's been for
everyone who has ever lived on this earth before us, except for the few who
are alive today, that's you and I.

We read in Genesis 1:26 "Let us make man in our own image according to our
likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the
sky and over the cattle and over ALL the earth, and over everything that
creeps or moves"

In Hebrew the word for God is Elohim. It is a plural form, and for that
reason we find the One who is identified as the Creator referring to "our"
image. God consisted of more than one Being, although only one of them was
performing the physical act of creation. The Bible reveals these Beings, it
shows them in a family relationship.

Of our glorious, resurrected Lord, we read in Revelation 4:11 Thou art
worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created
all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Not only did God create all things for his pleasure, he put a certain
healthy dose of fear of him in our hearts, and a genuine desire to submit to
his will in order to accept him and live, as opposed to rejecting him and
going to Hell.

Jules.