QUOTE (gregg @ Aug 20 2008, 06:07 PM)

Which criminal said, 'When you come into your kingdom, remember me?'
And Jesus responded, 'Today, thou shalt be with me in paradise.'
http://www.errantyears.com/1998/mar98/000476.htmlBut the robber on the right hand, whose name was Demas [Dysmus], seeing the
Godlike grace of Jesus, thus cried out: I know Thee, Jesus Christ, that
Thou art the Son of God. I see Thee, Christ, adored by myriads of myriads
of angels. Pardon me my sins which I have done. Do not in my trial make the
stars come against me, or the moon, when Thou shall judge all the world;
because in the night I have accomplished my wicked purposes. Do not urge
the sun, which is now darkened on account of Thee, to tell the evils of my
heart, for no gift can I give Thee for the remission of my sins. Already
death is coming upon me because of my sins; but Thine is the propitiation.
Deliver me, O Lord of all, from Thy fearful judgment. Do not give the enemy
power to swallow me up, and to become heir of my soul, as of that of him
who is hanging on the left; for I see how the devil joyfully takes his
soul, and his body disappears. Do not even order me to go away into the
portion of the Jews; for I see Moses and the patriarchs in great weeping,
and the devil rejoicing over them. Before, then, O Lord, my spirit departs,
order my sins to be washed away, and remember me the sinner in Thy kingdom,
when upon the great most lofty throne [4] thou shalt judge the twelve
tribes of Israel. [5] For Thou hast prepared great punishment for Thy world
on account of Thyself.
And the robber having thus spoken, Jesus says to him: Amen, amen; I say to
thee, Demas [Dysmus], that to-day thou shalt be with me in paradise. [6]
And the sons of the kingdom, the children of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob,
and Moses, shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping
and gnashing of teeth. [7] And thou alone shalt dwell in paradise until my
second appearing, when I am to judge those who do not confess my name. And
He said to the robber: Go away, and tell the cherubim and the powers, that
turn the flaming sword, that guard paradise from the time that Adam, the
first created, was in paradise, and sinned, and kept not my commandments,
and I cast him out thence. And none of the first shall see paradise until I
am to come the second time to judge living and dead. And He wrote thus:
Jesus Christ the Son of God, who have come down from the heights of the
heavens, who have come forth out of the bosom of the invisible Father
without being separated from Him, [1] and who have come down into the world
to be made flesh, and to be nailed to a cross, in order that I might save
Adam, whom I fashioned,--to my archangelic powers, the gatekeepers of
paradise, to the officers of my Father: I will and order that he who has
been crucified along with me should go in, should receive remission of sins
through me; and that he, having put on an incorruptible body, should go in
to paradise, and dwell where no one has ever been able to dwell.