Subject: Getting the verdict before the judgment? |
Bible Note: Matthew, I think your general method of interpretation of just about ever text related to the afterlife is fundamentaly flawed and at odds with 2,000 year of Christian exegesis. I also seriously doubt that these are your original ideas developed without any outside input, although it is possible I am wrong. We are in Christ here and we will be even more radically in and with Christ at our death, before the Final or General judgement. "For I am convinced that neither DEATH nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesusour Lord." Romans 8:38-39 Please don't tell me how God loves us while we are dead in the grave but not concious of Him because we have not been "clothed" with our new heavenly bodies. It is not in the body that we are made in the image of God. The Gospel accounts of the dead risen after the crucifxion, to which you have previously alluded, have nothing to say about new or heveanly bodies we will recieve at the Final Judgement resurrection of the dead. This thread has run its course for me. Emmuas |