as someone who sails the great lakes,(waves can get to 40 ft, believe it) never assume you are safe in a lifeboat. look for other means of things that float, or carry your own army inflatable, they are at an army-navy store, and are small, and can fit in a side pouch in a suitcase. inflatables can save your life, and lifeboats will go under in a storm.....should be called deathboats.

if they're going to die anyway, toss them out!

Toss the sick person out. I'm not cold hearted I swear, but if they are going to die before we can get rescued, there's no point in someone else dying for no reason.

Now you never said anything about sharks. What else haven't you told us?

i see, a man of mystery

and every excuse to not commit yourself to anything is a pursuit not original by your device.

justified you are in making excuses for yourself.

enjoy your search for more.

They are endlessly imaginative.


bye

no name.

I see five pages of circular discussion and still you have not found your answer.

you mention Jesus, and I assume you have some understanding that Jesus is the Judge of mankind, whether or not any knows Him or not.

Reading the Holy Bible is agood idea for getting some answers.

Jesus spoke to this, wrapped in a story depicting the judgement of God, when we all will see him in his glory at The Judgement.

I will simplify it for you.

In this story, Jesus identifies himself with all left wanting of something that could have been provided by the advantaged and privileged in life.

He also identifies himself with those that meet the lack suffered by others.

What is not in this story is the Church of Jesus Christ.

What is in this storu is the blessed inheritance of the righteous. They are not the Church of Jesus Christ in that He specifically says that these righteous ones do not know him.

The Church knows Jesus and Jesus knows the Church.


The Church of Jesus Christ is judged aLREADY, AND THE EVIDENCE IF THAT IS THE hOLY sPIRIT GIVEN THE cHURCH, INDIVIDUALLY. tHESE ARE CALLED SAINTS, OR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE lORD. OOPS. I hit the caplock key.

Here is the story. Read it.

Matthew 25: 31-46.(Jesus' words)

God bless you.

Some years ago, I was priviledged to visit a handicapped community on a sunday afternnoon.

Worship music was playing everywhere I went, and the whole atmosphere in that handicapped community , was filled with nothing less than God's purest love.


I wept as I watched and mingled with these beautiful childlike souls....
and remember thinking ..if only the whole world could be as these special people were that day.

I shall never forget that experience .
Ever.
It was like being in heaven , on that special Sunday afternoon.

No Namer.....God gives EVERY man EVERY opportunity to know God.
God is a JUST and MERCIFUL GOD.

And No Namer...IF perchance, there was NO MAN to witness to a handicapped man on an island alone, God would then send ministering angels to bring the gospel to him.
Some way..some how...God would reach him.

Btw.....The mentally handicapped may be handicapped mentally, but their spirit man is fine....meaning they are still able to recieve on a spiritual level, even if they are handicapped.
And btw, some handicapped people are even more spiritual than some non handicapped people .

But for anyone ,who has NOT heard and understood about Jesus(due to inability to comprehend), God will NOT hold that person accountable(babies and the severely mentally handicapped includied here).

But again, God is Spirit and reaches man's spirit, and that means God can by passes the mind, even if the mind does not fully understand.

Example......my pa had alzheimers..but the Word of God went past his mind and reached his spirit.
Cause Papa comprehended the Word just fine ...casue He was a born again in his SPIRIT, NOT his mind.

See....It is the spirit of man that is born again and made alive By God, NOT the mind of man.
The MIND of man must be daily renewed with the Word of God.....and btw, that is man's job to renew his mind with the Word, not God's Job.

Going back to my pappa now...I used to stand behind and watch my pappa ,while he read his bible...and I would standf and watch him read word for word...right down each page.

And Pappa would not put that bible down for hours!!
He was actually reading God's Word and enjoying it!!

BUT..if I would give pappa a magazine to read, he would lay it down in 2 minutes flat.
He wouldbarely lok at the magazine.
But....
When I would give pappa the Bible back to read again, He would read for hours!!

See....THAT'S the POWER of GOd's WOrd... that is even able to reach down, and get past Alzeimers!!

Then before my beloved pappa went home to be with Jesus, he stopped reading and comprehending.
When he stopped reading, I knew it was his time to go home, and I was right....pappa went home shortly afterwards .
But pappa was saved ,and loved the Lord....and even with Alzheimers, he stil was able to comprehend God's Word thru his born again spirit.


So you see,The annointed Word of God was able to reach PAST his alzheimers...and reached down into pappa's spirit man.

God is Spirit..and His Word can bypass the mind, and reach our born again spirit.

Same with God reaching the handicapped...God's Spirit reaches man's spirit anyway....not his mind....and so therefore a mentally handicapped person, is stil able to understand and recieve God, in his spirit!!!

I have seen handicapped people even praying in tongues....cause their spirit man is completely fine and whole, even if they are handicapped mentally or otherwise.

My kids wouldn't be sitting on their @sses all day playing video games.

Are lazy kids who eat lettuce healthier than active kids who enjoy chocolate?

Who are you? Jimney Crickett?