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NASB | Luke 12:20 "But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 12:20 "But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own all the things you have prepared?' [Job 27:8; Jer 17:11] |
Subject: What happens to our soul when we die? |
Bible Note: Hi SBoone, Thank you for your response. To me, this is not about credibility. It is about the serious study of the Bible. We gain when we learn. It happens to me all the time. :-) I'd like to look briefly at the scriptures you reference. I may have to come back to this later if I run out of time. We are looking at these verses with a view towards the survival or anihilation of the unredeemed: Is 65:17 - whether a thing is remembered or not does not signify if it continues to exist. II Peter 3 - The heavens and earth can be burned up, yet this does not refer to the unredeemed. Matt 10:28 - How does "destroy the body and soul in hell" relate to "everlasting punishment"? This is a valid question. Malachi 4:1 (one of my favorite chapters!) This is metaphorical, so we need to determine the metaphor. Root and branch are commonly used to speak of lineage and descendants. That could be the case here, which would be a reason to not use this scripture to modify the meaning of another that speaks of the unredeemed's survival. Ez. 28:18-19 "you will cease to be forever" (NASB) - this is a slightly interpretive translation, this passage is more literally translated "you will be nothing forever". "and never shalt thou be any more." KJV "and thou shalt nevermore have any being." ASV "And shall be no more forever" NKJV "and thou art not -- to the age" Youngs The Hebrew translated "nothing" and "no more" is also translated variously as "not found", "unsearchable", and does not neccessarily mean to cease to exist. One example is Saul looking for his father's donkeys. "The were nowhere" didn't mean they ceased to exist, just that Saul couldn't find them. Psalm 37:10 I do not have a good enough grasp of the Hebrew for this one, however the context seems to be saying thay the wicked will not have a place on the earth. They seem so prominent now, but they won't be then. Jer 17:27 I agree that this is fire that burns until it runs out of fuel, and will completely burn Jerusalem. This fire will go out because it runs out of fuel. Should the fuel somehow be capable of burning forever, forever it would burn. This leaves us with Matthew 10:28: And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. What do you think so far? Love in Christ, Mark |