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Thank you, Jason, for your explanation. I think I understand what you mean. I will offer, about two parts of it >
So, in case someone turns on God and goes the other way without ever changing and becoming perfected in His love, I consider this means the person did not really get started in spiritual union with Jesus and how God in His almighty power wins in the union. And we do have 1 John 2:19 which I think means that God finishes what He starts.
John speaks to people who have become "as He is" "in this world." (in 1 John 4:17) I understand that if our Heavenly Father has corrected usso that we are "as He is", we can not turn back to Satan. And this correction begins when one is "joined to the Lord" to be "one spirit with Him" (in 1 Corinthians 6:17) < this union with Jesus changes our nature so He keeps us, I understand. He has changed us enough so we begin real correction which makes us unable to turn completely to Satan. And God's correction succeeds in more and more making us unable to do sins. His love in us makes us alive to easily stay clear, also, of negative and nasty emotional stuff of fear's "torment", also > 1 John 4:18.Yes, I am very familar with 1 Timothy 5:6. I use this verse against Eternal Security Proponents all the time to say that believers can go back to an unsaved state. These were believing widows; And some had turned aside after Satan. A person can be physically alive and yet spiritually dead.
So, in case someone turns on God and goes the other way without ever changing and becoming perfected in His love, I consider this means the person did not really get started in spiritual union with Jesus and how God in His almighty power wins in the union. And we do have 1 John 2:19 which I think means that God finishes what He starts.
This says our Father is able to destroy body and soul. But destruction also can be conscious, if "Destruction and misery are in their ways" > in Romans 3:16. The destruction is how they are away from the presence of the Lord > 2 Thessalonians 1:9. But the sinner's body, for a while not conscious, can then be resurrected, but not into the eternal love life of God. The destruction will be how the person and one's body are not present with Jesus.But when I compare the killing of the body in Matthew 10:28, it remains the same on both ends.
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