Subject: what happens when we die |
Bible Note: Hi Jasper! You have separated Hebrews 9:27 from v. 28 which say: “Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him” (NIV). You have taken v. 27 out of context with v.28 which proves you wrong. You don’t seem to realize that our sins are paid for in full or else Christ’s death as payment was not for all of them. We are accounted to have died with Christ and raised with Him who is alive forevermore. Rom. 6:3-7 says: “…don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—because anyone who has died has been set free from sin” (NIV trans). Christ did not say what you quoted from Hebrews. Paul wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews. Christ’s ministry was before the Law ended and the Holy Spirit was given to indwell us. You are mixing law and grace when you quote supposedly from Christ and apply them to Paul’s writing in this Dispensation of Grace. That’s a no-no. Until you separate the Covenant of the Ten Commandments which Christ taught from, from Paul’s writing it’s going to be confusion without end. Legally speaking, there is no forgiveness of sins unto salvation until Christ’s death and resurrection. Whether we are good or bad has nothing to do with being saved. The bottom line is, we must be born again of His Spirit into God’s family. The wages of sin is death and the only release from the penalty of sin is to be counted as having died with Christ as Paul shows in the quote from Rom 6 above. You say: “No person goes to heaven before judgement.” And that is correct, but what you seem to have missed is we were judged and have died with Christ for our sins. To be subjected to another judgment as those entering the kingdom at the Second Advent is the equivalent of double jeopardy; i.e., the subjecting of a person to a second trial and or punishment for the same offense for which the person has already been tried and punished having died with Christ in His death. Please do not be offended by my remarks Jasper, I am just trying to set some things straight from the Scriptures. In His Grace Movingon |