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1 | Location of original bible text | Bible general Archive 1 | 20810 | |||
Where are the original books of the bible located. | ||||||
2 | Location of original bible text | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 20811 | ||
There are not, to anyone's knowledge, any original manuscripts (called autographs) of any books of the Bible extant in the world. What we have are copies, and copies of copies, that exist in a number of locations. --Hank | ||||||
3 | At the moment of death, w/God or asleep | Bible general Archive 1 | arizona | 128166 | ||
Christ said 'today' thou shall be with me in Paradise. The Bible also says we sleep till he comes again. I would like to know at the moment of death, we are with Christ and not asleep. |
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4 | At the moment of death, w/God or asleep | Bible general Archive 1 | WWToast | 128176 | ||
Did the thief on the cross go to paradise with Christ the day He died? Luke 23:43 No. In fact, on Sunday morning Jesus said to Mary, "I am not yet ascended to my Father." John 20:17. This shows that Christ did not go to heaven at death. Also note that the punctuation of the Bible is not inspired, but was added by men. The comma in Luke 23:43 should be placed after the words "to day" rather than before, so the passage should read, "Verily I say unto thee to day, shalt thou be with me in paradise." Or, "I'm telling you today--when it seems that I can save no one, when I myself am being crucified as a criminal--I give you the assurance today that you will be with me in paradise." Christ's kingdom is set up at His second coming (Matthew 25:31), and all the righteous of all ages will enter it at that time (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17) and not at death. “All that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth." John 5:28, 29. "David ... is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day." "For David is not ascended into the heavens." Acts 2:29, 34. "If I wait, the grave is mine house." Job 17:13. People do not go either to heaven or hell at death. They go to their graves to await the resurrection day. "The living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun." "There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10. "The dead praise not the Lord." Psalm 115:17. After death a person: returns to dust (Psalm 104:29), knows nothing (Ecclesiastes 9:5), possesses no mental powers (Psalm 146:4), has nothing to do with anything on earth (Ecclesiastes 9:6), does not live (2 Kings 20:1), waits in the grave (Job 17:13), and continues not (Job 14:1, 2). The dead will sleep until the great day of the Lord at the end of the world. In death, humans are totally unconscious with no activity or knowledge of any kind. "So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more." Job 14:12. "The day of the Lord will come ... in the which the heavens shall pass away." 2 Peter 3:10. You can find numerous reference to death as a sleep both in the new and old testament. Just think about it. Would heaven be a happy place to be if you were there watching all the suffering on the earth? No way. We will be resurrected when sin is put down at Jesus’ return – the first resurrection. “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection. Blessed and holy [is] he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.” Revelation 20:5,6 "Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be." Revelation 22:12. "The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, ... and the dead in Christ shall rise ... and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17. "We shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, ... and the dead shall be raised incorruptible. ... For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." 1 Corinthians 15:51-53. |
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