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27th February 2012, 11:25 PM
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And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this? John 11:26
Who are you calling "dead" ?
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Who are you calling "dead" ?
Paul, Peter, Mary, James, John, Thomas, Jude, etc. Those who died (are absent from the body) and went to be with Christ. They are dead. Stop equivocating. |
27th February 2012, 11:46 PM
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Do you disagree with Christ ? Or do you mean that Paul and the others you mention denied Christ ? Or do you believe that the human body is the source of life instead of God ? Or that the body of the risen Lord is full of death ? Or something else ?
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I have made my distinctions clear. If you persist in equivocating, we can not continue. Amos 3:3 |
28th February 2012, 09:20 AM
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Reps: 92,302,143,940,485,680 (power: 92,302,143,940,487) | | Originally Posted by Thekla And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this? John 11:26
Who are you calling "dead" ? John 11:13-15
New International Version (NIV)
13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. 14 So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
Jesus called Lazarus DEAD and did so PLAINLY. |
28th February 2012, 09:53 AM
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13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. 14 So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
Jesus called Lazarus DEAD and did so PLAINLY.
Yep.
1 Th. 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Dead:
1) properly
a) one that has breathed his last, lifeless
b) deceased, departed, one whose soul is in heaven or hell
c) destitute of life, without life, inanimate
2) metaph.
a) spiritually dead
1) destitute of a life that recognises and is devoted to God, because given up to trespasses and sins
2) inactive as respects doing right
b) destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative
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28th February 2012, 10:11 AM
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New International Version (NIV)
13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. 14 So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
Jesus called Lazarus DEAD and did so PLAINLY.
Yes, the body of Lazaros was without bios (life, of the duration or physical life), but there is another life - zoe (the spark of life which fills the bios, and the spiritual life).
As in Jeremiah's testimony concerning Rachel who had died, and with Christ speaking of Abraham, the other Lazaros, and the rich man, the cessation of bios does not cause the cessation of zoe.
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28th February 2012, 10:20 AM
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1 Th. 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Dead:
1) properly
a) one that has breathed his last, lifeless
b) deceased, departed, one whose soul is in heaven or hell
c) destitute of life, without life, inanimate
2) metaph.
a) spiritually dead
1) destitute of a life that recognises and is devoted to God, because given up to trespasses and sins
2) inactive as respects doing right
b) destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative
The term used here for death is "nekros", which means "corpse". Ie the body (which ceases to live - bios - upon death) is without life, but not the zoe.
When Christ says that those who live and believe in Him shall never die, He uses for the term "live" a form of "zoe" - not "bios".
Note that Paul also says that to be absent from the body is to present with Christ. How can one be dead and be present with He Who is Life ?
The bios is not the zoe - and those with Christ are dead in body but also live (zoe) just as Christ promised.
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28th February 2012, 05:33 PM
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Reps: 569,967,749,737,102,144 (power: 569,967,749,737,116) | | Originally Posted by jackmt Paul, Peter, Mary, James, John, Thomas, Jude, etc. Those who died (are absent from the body) and went to be with Christ. They are dead. Stop equivocating.
Then Jesus is a liar. He said that those who believe in Him shall have eternal LIFE (life is the total opposite of death).
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St. Nikolai Velimirovich (1880-1956) in Prayers by the Lake
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Reps: 55,919,903,063,783,016 (power: 55,919,903,063,785) | | Originally Posted by katherine2001 Then Jesus is a liar. He said that those who believe in Him shall have eternal LIFE (life is the total opposite of death).
Those whose bodies have died, or are corpses if you prefer, is who I am calling dead. I acknowledge they are alive in another realm; some in heaven, some awaiting judgment.
Again, I have made those distinctions clear. If you maintain that their bodies are alive, say so. To answer me meaningfully you must accept my stipulative definition of "dead" or provide another we can use. Otherwise, you are committing the logical fallacyof equivocating.
Are the bodies of the saints in heaven alive or dead?
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