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3141 | Where do our souls go when we die? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Emmaus | 111137 | ||
2 Cor 5:6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord-- 2 Cor 5:8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. We will be integrally perfected, not separately as I understand and see it. Our redemption is not completed until the resurrection of the body we again become whole and cleansed of all sin as God originally created us to be. Cor 15:12 Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 1 Cor 15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; 1 Cor 15:14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. 1 Cor 15:15 Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. 1 Cor 15:16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; 1 Cor 15:17 and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. 1 Cor 15:18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 1 Cor 15:19 If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied. |
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3142 | Died in Christ, where did they go? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Emmaus | 118690 | ||
sisgat It would seem that if we are in Christ and He is alive, then even if we die we are alive in Christ and with Him in heaven. 2 Cor 5:8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Emmaus |
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3143 | Where does a person go when they die? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Emmaus | 118692 | ||
sisgat, In we die in Christ we stay in Him. If we die outside of Christ we go where He isn't. 2 Cor 5:8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Matt 22:13 "Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' Emmaus |
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3144 | Where does a person go when they die? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Emmaus | 118697 | ||
Coli, No, I don't feel ignored. I assume if the questioner does not ask a followup they are satisfied with the answer and have benefited from it. I also assume that a post is solid if no one else adds to it or contradicts it. Sometimes others do add to my posts and they are often good additions. Emmaus |
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3145 | Where does a person go when they die? | 2 Cor 5:8 | Emmaus | 118715 | ||
Colin, I would tend to agree with your position in post #118430. And it would seem that Matt 25:31-40 also tends to support your post. Emmaus |
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3146 | 2 Corinthians 5th 9th means | 2 Cor 5:9 | Emmaus | 117018 | ||
Nae-Nae "Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him." Cor 5:9 In the context of the preceeding eight verses, Paul is referring to the body as our earthly tent while we at home in our body here on earth. He is saying whether we we are at home, here in our bodies, or after we die, absent from our bodies and at home with the Lord, our ambition should be to please Him. So don't wait until you go to heaven to start pleasing the Lord by couragously walking in faith. Emmaus |
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3147 | Why Mary Magdalene did not recognize Him | 2 Cor 5:16 | Emmaus | 127071 | ||
St. Paul explains why Mary Magdalene did not at first recognize the risen Christ in John 20:15. "For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. 2 Cor 5:14-16. Emmaus |
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3148 | What does it mean to be "in Christ?" | 2 Cor 5:17 | Emmaus | 100018 | ||
Mommapbs, I would take from Romans 6 that it refers to being baptised into Christ and becoming part of his body, the Church. Emmaus |
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3149 | Reconciliation questions | 2 Cor 5:18 | Emmaus | 112502 | ||
Mommapbs, You may find some usefule insight and information here http://198.62.75.1/www1/CDHN/healing.html#HEALING Emmaus |
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3150 | Paul or All? | 2 Cor 5:20 | Emmaus | 62973 | ||
Lionstrong, Again the primary reading would seem to be that "we" applies to Paul, Timothy (2 Cor 1:1), but there can be a secondary application to the life of all believers as they grow in Christ to a greater level of maturity. Emmaus |
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3151 | Did Jesus die spiritually? | 2 Cor 5:21 | Emmaus | 83104 | ||
Wheatfields, You may find these sections from the Catechism of interest on the subject. " 624. "'By the grace of God' Jesus tasted death 'for every one'.[Heb 2:9 .] In his plan of salvation, God ordained that his Son should not only 'die for our sins'[1 Cor 15:3 .] but should also 'taste death', experience the condition of death, the separation of his SOUL from his body, between the time he expired on the cross and the time he was raised from the dead. The state of the dead Christ is the mystery of the tomb and the descent into hell. It is the mystery of Holy Saturday, when Christ, lying in the tomb,[Cf. Jn 19:42 .] reveals God's great sabbath rest[Cf. Heb 4:7-9 .] after the fulfilment[Cf. Jn 19:30 .] of man's salvation, which brings peace to the whole universe.[Cf Col 1: 18-20 .]" 625. "Christ's stay in the tomb constitutes the real link between his passible state before Easter and his glorious and risen state today. The same person of the 'Living One' can say, 'I died, and behold I am alive for evermore':[Rev 1:18.] God (the Son) did not impede death from separating his SOUL from his body according to the necessary order of nature, but has reunited them to one another in the Resurrection, so that he himself might be, in his person, the meeting point for death and life, by arresting in himself the decomposition of nature produced by death and so becoming the source of reunion for the separated parts.[St. Gregory of Nyssa, Orat. catech. 16: PG 45, 52D.]" 626. "Since the 'Author of life' who was killed[Acts 3:15 .] is the same 'living one (who has) risen',[Lk 24:5-6 .] the divine person of the Son of God necessarily continued to possess his human SOUL and body, separated from each other by death: By the fact that at Chnst's death his SOUL was separated from his flesh, his one person is not itself divided into two persons; for the human body and SOUL of Christ have existed in the same way from the beginning of his earthly existence, in the divine person of the Word; and in death, although separated from each other, both remained with one and the same person of the Word.[St. John Damascene, De fide orth. 3, 27: PG 94, 1097.]" 627. "Christ's death was a real death in that it put an end to his earthly human existence. But because of the union his body retained with the person of the Son, his was not a mortal corpse like others, for 'divine power preserved Christ's body from corruption.'[St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 51, 3.] Both of these statements can be said of Christ: 'He was cut off out of the land of the living',[Is 53:8 .] and 'My flesh will dwell in hope. For you will not abandon my SOUL to Hades, nor let your Holy One see corruption.'[Acts 2:26-27 ; cf. Ps 16:9-10 .] Jesus' Resurrection 'on the third day' was the proof of this, for bodily decay was held to begin on the fourth day after death.[Cf. 1 Cor 15:4 ; Lk 24:46 ; Mt 12:40 ; Jon 2:1 ; Hos 6:2 ; cf. Jn 11:39 .]" 630. "During Christ's period in the tomb, his divine person continued to assume both his SOUL and his body, although they were separated from each other by death. For this reason the dead Christ's body 'saw no corruption' (Acts 13:37)." 632. "The frequent New Testament affirmations that Jesus was 'raised from the dead' presuppose that the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his resurrection.[Acts 3:15 ; Rom 8:11 ; 1 Cor 15:20 ; cf. Heb 13:20 .]This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ's descent into hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his SOUL joined the others in the realm of the dead. But he descended there as Saviour, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there.[Cf. 1 Pet 3:18-19.]" 637. "In his human SOUL united to his divine person, the dead Christ went down to the realm of the dead. He opened heaven's gates for the just who had gone before him. " 650. "The Fathers contemplate the Resurrection from the perspective of the divine person of Christ who remained united to his SOUL and body, even when these were separated from each other by death: 'By the unity of the divine nature, which remains present in each of the two components of man, these are reunited. For as death is produced by the separation of the human components, so Resurrection is achieved by the union of the two.'[St. Gregory of Nyssa, In Christi res. Orat. I: PG 46, 617B; cf. also DS 325; 359; 369.]" |
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3152 | Did Jesus die spiritually? | 2 Cor 5:21 | Emmaus | 83134 | ||
Mommapbs, It may help to think of spiritual death as a loss of supernatural grace which is basis of our participation in the life of God as his children. So Adam and Eve lost the grace of justice and sanctification when they fell as well as suffering the physical effects including, eventually, physical death. But Jesus is True God as well as True Man and could suffer only the human physical and emotional suffering and death that comes from the separation of the human soul and body. But He could not loose grace because He did not sin and grace is the essence of God's life, because Jesus although He died as a man, did not cease to be God the Son. But in his humanity He had the same horro of physical death which all humans have, because death destroys our integrated self as God created us to be, which is why the resurrection of the body is a central dogma of the Christian faith. The only spiritual sense in which He dies was the separation of His human soul (human spirit) from his human body. Even the human soul can not die except to loose grace. The integrated human being dies when the body is separated from the soul and the body decays because it has lost its connection to the sould which is its animating life force. This is the inevitable result of sin. Emmaus |
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3153 | Did Jesus die spiritually? | 2 Cor 5:21 | Emmaus | 83172 | ||
Searcher, I agree that our human souls do not die, nor did Jesus'. And his human soul never lost its union with his Divine Spiritual Personhood in the Blessed Trinity. Jesus never lost the connection between his human self and his Divine self, only the connection between his human body and human soul. Yesterday I posted several paragraphs from the Catechism on this thread. Emmaus |
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3154 | Did Jesus die spiritually? | 2 Cor 5:21 | Emmaus | 83174 | ||
Searcher, It seems Jesus was praying the Psalms while on the cross as indicated by: "my God my God, why have you forsaken me" Ps 22 and "into your hands I commend my spirit" Ps 31. Emmaus |
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3155 | Did Jesus die spiritually? | 2 Cor 5:21 | Emmaus | 83203 | ||
Gracefull Praying Psalm 22. But is also expresses that Jesus is experiencing the wrath of God as He suffered for our sins. But we need to know what Jesus knew, that Psalm 22 starts in apparent forsakenness but ends in glory. Emmaus |
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3156 | Did Jesus die spiritually? | 2 Cor 5:21 | Emmaus | 83217 | ||
Graceful, "Acts 2.. thou will not leave His soul in Hades.." I believe that refers to the human soul of Jesus, as it would to our human souls, but not to Jesus' Divine essence which could not be lost for even a second with destroying the central doctrine of the Christian faith which is the Trinity. That being said, Jesus' experience of the wrath of God and his time in the grace is a divine mystery that can not be fully understood this side of eternity, but only "as through a glass darkly". A study of the doctrine of the "hypostatic union" is what is needed to understand why Jesus could not be separated from his Divine essence. I did post some passages from the catechism on this question, so I won't repeat them, although there is also more on the subject. Emmaus |
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3157 | Did Jesus die spiritually? | 2 Cor 5:21 | Emmaus | 83259 | ||
Graceful, "If the Word says that Jesus Christ, the third person of the Trinity went into Hades, He did! And since the Trinity did not disipate, apparently the theology is wrong. Jesus, the Son of God, second person of the Godhead, went into Hades. And remained there three days! Then God the Father raised Him from the dead, because it was impossible that He should be held. "Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it" Apparently the theology is wrong about what? Who is disputing that Jesus decended to the dead? Who said the Trinity dissapted? Everyone is in agreement that Jesus, the Second Person of the Trinity decended to the dead while his body was in the tomb. You were asking if He was spiritually separated from God the Father by his death on the cross. The answer is no, because it was that very spiritual oneness in the Trinity that allows the Resurrection and that oneness of spiritual substance is eternal and unbreakable. Jesus is one Divine Person with two natures; divine and human. Divine nature is purely (uncreated) spirit. Human nature is (created) spirit(soul) and body. Human nature suffers death when the soul and body are separated, which is what the Resurrection overcame. But God gave Adam and Eve something more than mere human nature. He gave them supernatural grace, which allowed them to share in his Divine nature and have a special relationship with Him. Sin also caused a spiritual death, which was the loss of that supernatural grace and the loss of man's special relationship with God. Jesus' Resurrection overcame physical death when He reunited his human soul with his body. But He also restored supernatural grace and our special realtionship with God by his death and resurrction, which is why Paul in Romans 6 speaks about us being baptized into the Body of Christ as restoring our relationship to God as his children which makes us partakers of the Divine nature 2 Peter 1:4. See also Romans 8 where Paul speaks of the spirit of God in us. There Paul is speaking of the supernatural grace of the indwelling Holy Spirit, not our natural human spirit or soul. I am finished with my input on this thread. The conversation is starting to get circular. Emmaus |
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3158 | Any verses about praying for the dead? | 2 Cor 6:2 | Emmaus | 55808 | ||
Suzy, The answer to your question depends on whose bible your are using. Catholic bibles contain two books of Macabees which were part of the Greek translation of the Old Testament used from the earliest days of the Church. There you find this passage: 2 Macabees 12:38-46 "Judas rallied his army and went to the city of Adullam. As the week was ending, they purified themselves according to custom and kept the sabbath there. On the following day, since the task had now become urgent, Judas and his men went to gather up the bodies of the slain and bury them with their kinsmen in their ancestral tombs. But under the tunic of each of the dead they found amulets sacred to the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to wear. So it was clear to all that this was why these men had been slain. They all therefore praised the ways of the Lord, the just judge who brings to light the things that are hidden. Turning to supplication, they prayed that the sinful deed might be fully blotted out. The noble Judas warned the soldiers to keep themselves free from sin, for they had seen with their own eyes what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen. He then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of the dead in view; for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would have been useless and foolish to pray for them in death. But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might be freed from this sin." There is also the question of the unsaved boy. How can anyone but God know if he was saved or unsaved. Prayers for the dead cannot save the souls of the lost or damed. They can strengthen and encourage the souls of the just or saved dead undergoing the final purification from any last vestiges of sin. However, your question dis not involve Purgatory. It can be documented by the early writings of the Church Fathers that prayer for the dead was a common Chritian practice from the early days of the Church. And 2 Macabees shows that it was also a practice of the Jews prior to the coming of Jesus. Emmaus |
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3159 | the talk beats the walk. | 2 Cor 6:14 | Emmaus | 149325 | ||
Doc, Doesn't the seed of faith produce fruit? Isn't the ability of the seed of saving faith to produce good fruit an element of the seed? To say something is an evidence, does not exclude it being intrinsic element of the thing that produces the evidence. Emmaus |
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3160 | Witness to witches | 2 Cor 10:4 | Emmaus | 80882 | ||
You may find theses article of interest. http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/PCCNEWAG.HTM http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/pccpcida.htm http://www.envoymagazine.com/backissues/1.5/sept_octstory1.html |
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