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1 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | DocTrinsograce | 207493 | ||
Hi, flinty... The Puritans used to say that showing kindness to the wolves was being cruel to the sheep. The false teaching of cults only brings harm (Jude 12-15). It is foolishness -- although a popular and common foolishness -- to speak of showing respect to ideas. You might as well respect a twig or a rock. Consequently, the presumption of your "forgiveness" warrants only a certain sadness and my own forgiveness for the false condemnation. That's not difficult, given that I have many genuine failings. Feel free to fault and forgive me for any of those things, rather than something silly like being disrespectful to heresy. Sheesh. Furthermore, I'll happily exchange an out-of-context, misapplied quote of 1 Peter 3:15 for the benefits of the verse that follows it. Nonetheless, my sympathies if you have more than a passing acquaintance with the Stone-Campbell Movement. So, let me try to ferret through the tangled posts to see how I've failed to answer your question. Uh... I don't see it... But if you want something explicit: The Bible uses the words soul and spirit interchangeably. I don't find any reason to do otherwise. However, if you are after an affirmation: I see a dichotomy in the Scripture's presentation of the nature of man. The Greek perspective of a trichotomy is a presupposition much more difficult to support Biblically. Nevertheless, our cultural perspective tends to assume the latter. My Jewish inculcation tends to more easily embrace the former. As to the other stuff: Are you asking for Bible support for annihilationism? Sorry, but it isn't possible to do that without abandoning a sound Biblical hermeneutic. In Him, Doc "In a relatively free and open society, the best forms of tolerance are those that are open to and tolerant of people, even when there are strong disagreements with their ideas. This robust toleration for people, if not always for their ideas, engenders a measure of civility in public discourse while still fostering spirited debate over the relative merits of this or that idea. Today, however, tolerance in many Western societies increasingly focuses on ideas, not on people. The result of adopting this new brand of tolerance is less discussion of the merits of competing ideas -- and less civility. There is less discussion because toleration of diverse ideas demands that we avoid criticizing the opinions of others… Exclusiveness is the one religious idea that cannot be tolerated. Correspondingly, proselytism is a dirty word. One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most 'evangelistic' movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals." --D. A. Carson |
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2 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | FlintyJoe | 207576 | ||
You say "The Bible uses the words soul and spirit interchangeably." Maybe your translation, but the NIV has at least this verse correct: "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." (Heb 4:12) Why am I not surprised that you aren't familiar with it? |
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3 | Death God's friend or enemy? | 1 Cor 15:25 | DocTrinsograce | 207595 | ||
Hi, flinty... If you see a post referred to as a number, you can enter it in the search box. In Him, Doc |
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