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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Unanswered Bible Questions Author: C.S. Lewisist Ordered by Date |
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1 | Law, Curses, Resurrection, Regeneration | Matt 5:18 | C.S. Lewisist | 74738 | ||
1) I was wondering the role of Old Testament laws in light of Christ's sacrifice. He did indeed say that He is the fulfillment of the law and not the destroyer (Matt. 7:17). The rabbinic interpretations are certainly not what Chrisitans are to care for, but what are we to follow, if indeed there are laws to follow? For instance, tithing was an old testament law; Christ has fulfilled - are those that follow Him still ordered to tithe? If so, how is He the fulfillment; if not, how does the law play in the Christian's life, and which laws? 2) When we hear of a curse in the Bible, would it be proper to say that this curse is the eventual cessation of God from a person's life? In other words, is a curse the neutral state without God, or is it some negative impressment that God gives to those who act out of rebellion? This seems, to me, to be the case with Malachi 3:9 and the curse of not tithing to God. 3) Concerning the resurrection and the new body of 2 Cor. 5 (and this may appear to be an amateur question) - are we given completely new bodies, or are our old bodies 'upgraded'; that is, redone while still maintaining the same physical structure as we had on earth? 4) Finally, I've heard it said that come the regeneration of all things that the saints will live on a perfected earth. I'm not referring to an a-millenialist interpretation of Revelation 19 either. Can you please help? blessings, John |
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2 | Judgement, Sheol, and Hades | Heb 9:27 | C.S. Lewisist | 73655 | ||
I have a few questions that I have been contemplating for quite a while now: 1) The bible seems to imply that judgement - for the wicked and righteous - is summed up in a single event. Paul described it as 'the day' (1 Cor. 3:13); Jesus referred to it as 'the last day' (John 12:48). My question is: because we die and have time before this judgment, as the scripture speaks of our spirits surviving after death, then how is it that those in Hades are in torments before the final judgment that renders them unto the second death - the lake of fire? If the punishment is inflicted by God, then what is the necessity of even having a second death? If the punishment is intrinsic on behalf of the condemned (that is, due to their wrath and refusal to accept the objective good), then how would this suffering differ from the warnings Jesus spoke about concerning the Lake of Fire (anger, wailing, casting into outer darkness, etc.)? Could it be that when Jesus spoke of condemnation, He did not specify any difference between the intermediate state (Hades) and the final state, that being the lake of fire? Theologians seem to imply that when Christ speaks of Gehenna, He is referring to the lake of fire. Is there any possibility that those who die unredeemed continue in a state of 'rest' - or soul sleep - until their coming judgement? 2) How do we reconcile the idea of the spirit surviving the body with such passages as Ecclesiastes 9:10 and Psalm 146:4, both of which seem to imply that death, and sheol, are entities that lack any action or recreation? If God is the God of the living, and Ecclesiastes 9:10 seems to be in the context of everyone - good and evil -, how is it that those who died in the Old Testament were with Him, but also without knowledge, wisdom, work or device? Could it be that the OT idea of death was incomplete? Or could it simply be that sheol strictly means the grave and nothing more (even though its Greek counterpart, Hades, literally means 'the unseen world')? blessings, John |
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