Subject: Getting the verdict before the judgment? |
Bible Note: Thank you for responding to my Question and notes with such detail...But I respectfuly disagree, and this is why. Let me try and explain without sounding open to new ideas. You started out saying that the body is made of three parts. I agree, but I don't beleive in disimbodied human spirits. The bible does not teach of this at all. The immortal soul does not exist in the bible. Man BECAME a LIVING SOUL.Man was not GIVEN a LIVING SOUL. All Gods creatues are living souls. Gen 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fow of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is (2416-life)(Hebrew word is SOUL here),I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. life: Heb. a living soul-2416 Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life2416; and man BECAME a living soul. Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. BODY and BREATH equale a LIVING SOUL. Job 14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? Job 14:14 If a man die, shall he live again ? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my CHANGE come. Man and beast were created the same way,and die the same way, the only difference is that we are made in the image(likeness)of God. Ecc 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all ONE BREATH; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. Psa 49:12 Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. Paul beleives in being CLOTHED What is meant by the term "unclothed"? Notice that Paul specifically declared that he did not desire to be naked or unclothed. We can be certain, then, that the unclothed state did not involve being with the Lord, since Paul did not desire it. In fact, the apostle made reference to being clothed with only two houses, the earthly and heavenly. In the unclothed state, he was neither in the earthly body nor clothed with the heavenly. That leaves only one possible explanation. To be "unclothed" or "naked" is the condition of death which is the interlude between the dissolving of the earthly house and putting on the heavenly. Some have claimed that the house which we have "eternal in the heavens" is the immortal soul with which we immediately enter into heaven when the earthly house is dissolved. But this could not be. Notice the impossibility of such an arrangement. If the soul inhabited that heavenly "house" immediately at death, what happens when it must inhabit the immortalized body after the resurrection takes place? It is in the glorified resurrection bodies that the righteous dwell with God for eternity. This would involve those souls leaving the "house eternal in the heavens" which they inhabited at death, and going into the redeemed bodies at the resurrection. Then what happens to the house they vacated? Are the saints to have "houses to rent"? Moreover, this view introduces something which Paul never mentioned; for here we have THREE HOUSES, but Paul's language allows for only TWO. And one would have to be abandoned according to the popular view. Would it stand abandoned and fall into ruin? All this is unscriptural and absurd. Such a view is an impossibility. I will respond to the rest of your notes in my next letter so I don't take up a whole page. |