Frank Goad
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What do you think of 1 Thessalonians 4:14 and 2 Corinthians 5:6-9?When you read it?When compared to Ecclesiastes 9:5?
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Wouldn't it be easier for others if you took the time to
copy and paste the verses here instead of expecting
people to go look them up?
It's still a laziness that says."I don't really care what you think." In which case I, for one, won't bother telling you.If you click on the bible passages above in my first post they go right to a translation naturally.Try it.
If you click on the bible passages above in my first post they go right to a translation naturally.Try it.
Okay, I'll do it for you
Thessalonians (NT)
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Corinthians (NT)
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
(For we walk by faith, not by sight We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be
present with the Lord.
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
Ecclesiastes (OT)
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the
memory of them is forgotten.
Thanks!
Indeed.A lot of OT Jews did not believe in the afterlife.
Strangely, this POV was not fleshed out in the OT.
Solomon wrote this - we believe. But in another Ecc
verse he said the dead are happier than the living.
So there you go.
But Solomon was getting old by the time he wrote
this. He was becoming a very dark person. Compare
Ecc to his first Song of Solomon, and then his middle
aged (?) Proverbs.
The bible tells us that Solomon fell from God's grace.
What do you think of 1 Thessalonians 4:14 and 2 Corinthians 5:6-9?When you read it?When compared to Ecclesiastes 9:5?
Er, yes? Wouldn't you expect that?In 1 Thessalonians 5:10 it says we live together with jesus while asleep (dead).This sounds like 1 Thessalonians 4:14.
What do you think of 1 Thessalonians 4:14 and 2 Corinthians 5:6-9?When you read it?When compared to Ecclesiastes 9:5?
I noticed there was a reply Frank.Why no reply?
What do you think of 1 Thessalonians 4:14 and 2 Corinthians 5:6-9?When you read it?When compared to Ecclesiastes 9:5?
How I read it it says jesus's followers souls are coming back from heaven to earth In 1 Thessalonians 4:14.And in 2 Corinthians 5:6-8.I thought paul was just talking about how good it would be to be in heaven in general.But verse 9 to me sounds like some people who have died.Are already with God.I am so confused.Because if paul knows that the dead are gone until everyone comes back to life like in daniel 12:2.Why the confusion.Maybe you can explain.Deejee.
How I read it it says jesus's followers souls are coming back from heaven to earth In 1 Thessalonians 4:14.And in 2 Corinthians 5:6-8.I thought paul was just talking about how good it would be to be in heaven in general.But verse 9 to me sounds like some people who have died.Are already with God.I am so confused.Because if paul knows that the dead are gone until everyone comes back to life like in daniel 12:2.Why the confusion.Maybe you can explain.Deejee.
Why no reply?