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Please explain. Everyone but a few select physically die in the Bible.
Precisely the point -- the "death" that God refers to is a spiritual death, since even among his most righteous, all but two experience the physical one: Enoch and Elijah.
I must of missed the point earlier but will give it a shot.
We see in the OT the promise of spiritual regeneration which is we are spiritually dead and through the sovereign Grace of God born again. That addresses the spirit or soul.
We will all be bodily resurrected. "Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt."
The NT tells us those who are in Christ will be 'like' Him and share His inheritance.
Non the less, death was introduced into the Creation in Genesis 3.After all, God tells Adam that he will die the day he eats from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam eats. And he dies. But not physically; he lives on for many years thereafter.
Non the less, death was introduced into the Creation in Genesis 3.
Can resurrection only apply to physical death?
No, it doesn't have to be that. But when all that scripture is telling you that the death is a spiritual one, it's hard to find any verses that support a physical death.
I suppose you would have us believeing Jesus didn't physically die on the cross?
Non the less, death was introduced into the Creation in Genesis 3.
The resurrection was in reference to the physical death and physical resurrection of Jesus Christ...
That's your personal (or perhaps denominational) interpretation.Yes, that spiritual death that Adam brought into the world.
That's your personal (or perhaps denominational) interpretation.
If Jesus' miracles can be understood as using the physical as a metaphor for the spiritual (as I believe they can), then why not his greatest miracle of all -- His resurrection? Could not the resurrection be a physical symbol of a spiritual truth?
Just a thought...
Again, that's your biassed interpretation, biassed by evolutionism.Barbarian observes:
Yes, that spiritual death that Adam brought into the world.
God says to Adam that he will die the day he eats from the tree. Adam eats, and lives on physically for many years thereafter. If God is truthful, than the death He was speaking of, was a spiritual, not a physical one.
Yes. We must remember that He is God, and has no need to do miracles. They are done, not out of necessity, but in order to teach us something.
Again, that's your biassed interpretation, biassed by evolutionism.
Again, that's your biassed interpretation, biassed by evolutionism.
No, all of that is found in Genesis. If you need to deny what's in it, isn't that a clue for you?
Barbarian observes:
No, it doesn't have to be that. But when all that scripture is telling you that the death is a spiritual one, it's hard to find any verses that support a physical death.
Instead of going though all that legalistic pilpul, why not just read it and accept it the way it is? Don't add anything that's not there, and don't subtract anything that is there. And then you'll be able to accept what God told Adam about death, and at the same time accept that Jesus did physically die on the cross.
And then none of this will bother you any more.
Barbarian observes:
God says to Adam that he will die the day he eats from the tree. Adam eats, and lives on physically for many years thereafter. If God is truthful, than the death He was speaking of, was a spiritual, not a physical one.
No, all of that is found in Genesis. If you need to deny what's in it, isn't that a clue for you?
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