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NASB | 1 Corinthians 15:25 For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 15:25 For Christ must reign [as King] until He has put all His enemies under His feet. [Ps 110:1] |
Bible Question: Shouldn't we view death as God does? The verse states that it is His enemy. |
Bible Answer: Flinty Joe I saw your other post on this and saw the answers there. I think you are clarifying better what you mean here in this post. I would tend to agree with you because death is evil, is an enemy, came about by sin, will be destroyed, will be thrown into the Lake of Fire. - Revelation 20:13. I think the "differene" comes in when saints view death as a means of going home to the Lord - as Paul says twice, once in Philippians and once in 2 Corinthians that he would rather prefer to die and go home to the Lord, that is he was looking forward, not to the event of death, but what lay beyond. Christians tend not to fear death, thinking in terms, not of the event itself but what lays beyond. But death is an enemy, no one, not even a Christian looks forward to the actual event, not even Christ was happy to go there. He agonized over having to go through it the way He knew He would have to endure it and asked if perhaps this cup might pass from Me. It is a very non Christian and scientific idea that death is part of life and that death is "a natural process" we all have to go through. I often ask those who say death is natural and a part of life, "then why do most people have a tendency to fear death if it is so natural? Death is not natural, when you are in the middle of a car accident thinking you are about to die and screaming or crying out to God for help, is death something you are thinking is natural?" I dont' think when we are faced with death so squarely and immediately that many of us wouldn't hope to escape that fate and keep on living. Of course there are those who have a complete calm come over them when face with death because they know where they are going. But that is the point, they know where they are going, it is not the even itself they look forward to. Ephesians 4:3 Being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. blessings abound, bowler |