10/18/11

To upgrade or not to upgrade?


I laughed when I saw this one.  Nice play on words.  It does bring up an important topic, though.  Is the way to heaven a progressive revelation?  In other words, will we need to know more and more as time goes on to enter heaven?  We are so accustomed to constantly upgrading everything from our computers, our cell phones, our cars and numerous other devices... what about our religion?  Here are a couple of passages that address the issue and they were written about two thousand years ago....

Jude 1:1-4 (WEB)
1) Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
2) Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
3) Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
4) For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Galatians 1:6-9 (WEB)
6) I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;
7) and there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
8) But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.
9) As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

I didn't take long for some to try to change the truth, but they did.  And there was a reaction; a strong one from the apostles.  Its interesting to me that both apostles use language that in most circles today would seem politically incorrect.  Who came up with "politically correct and incorrect" anyway?  Perhaps those who are related to those first century people who didn't like the truth and wanted to re-make it into something they could live with.  I only know that if God is eternal (rhetorical question) that the message HE would finish with would be one just like HIM, unchanging.  One last thing, perhaps just a foolish question... but, will there be computers in heaven?  If so, I just know they would operate on Linux... because ITS FREE!!!