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Youth pastor told her that her dad would NOT remember her in heaven.

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

While I don't know of any Scripture that clearly says we will not forget our lives before Heaven (and "not be brought to remembrance" doesn't mean "literally can't remember"), I do find that a number of verses as well as the logic of heavenly worship seem to imply we will remember.

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0:00.0

Do you think we will remember our earthly lives in heaven, given that there's nothing

0:04.5

negative in heaven and this world is so full of negative things and memories?

0:08.1

I want to say, I get your heart, but I caution you, I caution you, please don't go there.

0:14.9

I've heard this before. I had a friend who was told this as a teenager.

0:20.8

She was told, we were both teens, her dad had died.

0:24.8

She was told that in heaven, because heaven is going to be bliss.

0:27.8

It's going to be only beauty and only wonder and only love and no sorrow.

0:32.1

Therefore, we wouldn't remember our our our old lives.

0:36.6

Her dad had died when she was very young.

0:40.0

Obviously, this had a big impact on her.

0:42.0

So she asked this youth pastor, it was, um, are you saying that when I see my dad in heaven,

0:46.4

he won't remember me? And the youth pastor told her, yes.

0:52.8

This was one of the things that drove her towards Mormonism, because Mormonism says,

0:57.6

families are forever. Of course, what they mean by that in their theology is some pretty wild stuff.

1:02.9

But you see how he thought, I have a great little solution to a to a problem of me being sad,

1:08.0

if I remember the earth. So I'm going to teach everybody in the name of me being a pastor.

1:12.2

I'm going to teach them all that they won't remember their loved ones when they see them in heaven

1:17.6

before God. This did harm. Okay. She had other issues going on. There was other things going

1:23.1

on her life that led her towards that path. It wasn't like this, just this one statement from him

1:26.7

is fully responsible for her, you know, stepping into LDS teaching and beliefs and stuff.

1:31.2

That was, there was a lot more going on, but it didn't help. I would caution you against this.

1:36.6

It's not biblical. What's biblical is that we will not have any sorrow. What's not biblical is

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