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1 | Acts 13:1 | Bible general Archive 4 | jamison | 204183 | ||
Hello Tamara, First, I don't plan on debating any of the soul sleep stuff. It isn't that important to me. Nor am I am not against shooting down anyone's theology. What is more important to me (and maybe only to me) is first how we Christians tend to trivialize the beliefs of others, even other Christians, and second how we often look for our answers within the realm of those who believe like us anyway. In my opinion, you have trivialized the concept of soul sleep by saying it comes from one verse taken out of context. While soul sleep may not be true, it comes from much more than one verse; and while there is only one CORRECT context, we all tend to read and decide the context based off our current theology. You have, however, mentioned that you have discussed the idea with many SDAers, so you have at least been willing to listen to their points. That is strong. Anyway, it probably wasn't any of my business. I probably read more into than necessary. Should have just kept quite. jamison |
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2 | Acts 13:1 | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 204203 | ||
Dear Jamison, plese don't keep quiet! This is an open forum and I am willing to hear what other Christians veiw things like. I don't know which part of the thread you caught, somewhere in there I acknowledged that they get this belief from a number of verses later on in the thread. In that same note I said that Jesus used the word sleep as a euphimism and that so did those in the OT use it as a euphimism. Somehow we need to find out not what our context is based on our theology, but what the historical context of the authors and the subjects of the stories were in order to understand how they were using the words. That should be driving how we understand what they said, not our theology today. It is your business if you see something say it, we are all trying to understand the Bible, there is room for unity in tolerance and room for unity in coming to understanding what each of us views things like. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||