Bible Question:
Thanks for answering my question. I should have looked up the word pains in my concordance. Next time i'll look further than my cross ref. DUH!?! Since you reminded me to check my concordance I looked up all the entries of hades and none of them refered to the place of paradise. And all of them were refering to a place of torment or a place contrary to the abode of God's people before or after the cross. This leads me to my question. You said "death here is talking about separation from God" Robert Bowman in his book "The word faith controversy" says... "(Jesus) could not be literally separated from God..." Pg173 and refering to Matt 27:46 "Although Jesus' words here may seem to imply that he really was forsaken or abandoned by God, that is in fact not the case." pg 171 He worked at CRI with the bible answer guy. What do you mean by separated? |
Bible Answer: In the Andes Your absolutely right Jesus could not be separated from God for Him to do so would cause the Godhead to be separated. Jesus died physically but not spiritually. He was never separated from God. Jesus' words in Matt 27:46 is Jesus once more in love and grace showing Himself to be the Messiah. He is quoting the first verse of the Psalm 22 which details his crucifixion experience. Jesus was not crying out for God. God would never leave nor forsake Him, Jesus was once more demonstrating His fulfillment of the prophets. Jesus conquered spiritual death that is what this passage in Acts is saying Death could not hold him, He beat death. The price was paid, sin had no hold on Him so he could not be separated from God. EdB |