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1 | most churches preach that when you die y | 2 Cor 5:8 | jadams | 229810 | ||
most churches preach that when you die you go to heavn , exactly which is it , the bible says to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord ,then it states that we cant go to heavn or hell untill we are judged ,are you in purgatory ? as the catholics preach ,and then it says the dead in christ shall rise first , thank you ,john | ||||||
2 | most churches preach that when you die y | 2 Cor 5:8 | Searcher56 | 229811 | ||
John, Again this is another question that has many threads. It (and your other question) has been discussed for many years, including by "experts". Read the threads and post your thoughts, Searcher |
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3 | heaven NO, the grave, Yes | 2 Cor 5:8 | heman | 233776 | ||
Would then these experts be correct? HELL. This is the word generally and unfortunately used by our translators to render the Hebrew Sheol, or:"aidhs, and once Uanatos, 2 Sam. xxii. 6: Inferi or Inferna, or sometimes Mors). We say unfortunately, because although, as St. Augustine truly asserts, Sheol,with its equivalents Inferi and Hades, are never used in a good sense (De Gen. ad Lit. xii. 33), yet the English word Hell is mixed up with numberless associations entirely foreign to the minds of the ancient Hebrews. It perhaps have been better to retain the Hebrew word Sheol, or else render it always by " the grave " or " the pit." Ewald accepts Luther's word Holle; even Unterwelt, (the underworld, place of the dead) DR. WILLIAM SMITH'S DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE; Page 1038 |
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4 | heaven NO, the grave, Yes | 2 Cor 5:8 | DocTrinsograce | 233779 | ||
Dear Heman, There is a long standing convention in the forum that when you ask or answer an individual participant a question, you simply mark it as a note. That way, the general forum questions show up properly at the top of the home page. After all, when you post something as a followup to someone else's note, they will be properly notified. Thank you! In Him, Doc |
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5 | experts | 2 Cor 5:8 | heman | 233797 | ||
Then why does BRUCE say, "The everlasting fire does not necessarily imply perpetual existence of the individual. The furnace in the parable of the Tares consumes the tares as waste. From the point of view of that parable, the wicked are the waste of the moral world, and they are cast into the consuming fire, not so much to punish them, as to get rid of them. How far the category of waste can be properly applied to human souls is a question of the same sort as that which ask, Can a being endowed with freewill fitly be compared to clay in the hands of a potter?" The Kingdom of God, BRUCE |
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6 | experts | 2 Cor 5:8 | Searcher56 | 233802 | ||
STOP selecting "Question" in your response, select "Note" You need to talk to Bruce for your answer. |
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7 | eternal death | 2 Cor 5:8 | heman | 233826 | ||
That WAS a question and who are you to tell me which to select? Futhermore you need to address the POST and not the POSTER! So, then, why does BRUCE say, "The everlasting fire does not necessarily imply perpetual existence of the individual. The furnace in the parable of the Tares consumes the tares as waste. From the point of view of that parable, the wicked are the waste of the moral world, and they are cast into the consuming fire, not so much to punish them, as to get rid of them. How far the category of waste can be properly applied to human souls is a question of the same sort as that which ask, Can a being endowed with freewill fitly be compared to clay in the hands of a potter?" These points are noticed by Weiss, vide Das Matthaus-Evangelium, S. 539. The Kingdom of God, BRUCE Who do you think the tares are? What do you think will happen to them according to the Bible? Especially, when Jesus says, how often, would I have gathered thy children, and ye would not." Mat 23:37 KJV The everlasting fire is, not less than the other figures, only a symbol, as appears from the fact that, taken literally, it excludes from the region of possibility the " outer darkness." All these figures are the products of the religious imagination, and express in sensuous terms the intense conviction of the enlightened conscience as to the blessedness of being good and the misery of being evil. Dives wished one sent from the dead to give a glowing description of the place of torment to his brethren, that they might not come into it. But our Lord represents Abraham as replying, " If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead." The theme of their preaching was righteousness here and now. Christ meant to teach that he who has no ear for their doctrine cannot be made a citizen of the divine kingdom by the terrors of hell, however vividly depicted The Kingdom of God, BRUCE |
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8 | eternal death | 2 Cor 5:8 | Searcher56 | 233844 | ||
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