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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] |
Subject: Death God's friend or enemy? |
Bible Note: Flintyjoe Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Acts 2:23 this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. Jesus was definitely a "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" - as in God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit, "foreknew" from the foundation of the world that He would be slain. That is the concept that Mathew Henry is talking about, it is not a twisting or mis-representation of Revelation 13:8, it is correct because there is not one thing that can happen that is not foreknown by God "from the foundation of the world" as definitely going to happen. As someone pointed out to you before, you have no way of knowing if Adam made it to heaven or not because the Bible does not say that he did or did not make it, like say in the case of Enoch, or Elijah, or Abraham. We cannot assume things the Bible does not say, and just because it does not say Adam made into heaven, that does not mean he didn't. The only one who knows, even of the so called saints, who makes it into heaven is God Himself. The logic of your first statement is a little wanting. The first time you spank a child does he know just because you tell him you will do it if he is bad what a spanking means? I have to wonder how Adam could know what death meant since there was none to observe as a way to understand what that was? I am not saying he did not know, but the Bible does not tell us how he knew what it meant. What bothers me about trying to figure that part out is that wouldn't knowing what death is be part of "the knowledge of good and evil", as death is part of evil? I realize my reasoning here creates a big problem because God is indeed just and he told Adam he would die to warn him not to get in the position to have to die. But, the Bible does not give us a clue how Adam could know what that mean in any capacity as he could not know the difference between good and evil - as that the knowledge of good and evil would be necessary to understand what it means? Just a thought there to complicate the whole she-bang for you.:-) Genesis 2:16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat of it, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die." blessings abound, bowler |