Yep, the details matter. Should be the next popular catch slogan. Here is another example of the "cross" in scripture from another typology - Samson:
Samson; Judges 16.
Samson carrying bars of the Gate at Gaza, old mosaic.
Just as Samson, representing Jesus as deliverer, was born...
The inescapable "pattern":
[2] Samson; Judges 16. Read the whole chapter here (saves space) - Judges 16:16 (KJV)
[A.] Just as Samson, representing Jesus as deliverer, was born specially, by promise from God, to a woman which could not bare, and he was to be filled with the Holy Ghost, and to...
Yes Samson, the descendant of Dan's adopted daughter, killed more Philistines on the day of his death, than he had killed during his entire life. See Judges 16: 30.
OK, so the people that wrote the OT thought the soul could die. They identified the soul with the living body.
Again, so what?
We know we can die. If that's all they are saying, it is a triviality.
You're not getting it. The soul could die. That is to say life ends. It could be old age, it could be a mauling by a grizzly bear, it could be any death. It doesn't have to be God.
Leviticus 17:11 “For the soul of the flesh is in the blood, and I myself have put it upon the altar for you to...
OK, Genesis 19 seems to link Lot living to Lot's soul living, so seems to make the equivalence between the two.
Numbers 23 seems to just talk about the person dying and nothing about the soul.
Joshua 2 doesn't mention souls, only death.
Judges 5 doesn't mention souls, only death.
Judges 16...
Let's see what kind of difficulties you may encounter with these verses.
Genesis 19:19-20; Numbers 23:10; Joshua 2:13-14; Judges 5:18; Judges 16:16, Judges16:30; 1 Kings 20:31-32; Psalms 22:29; Ezekiel 18:20; Matthew 2:20; Matthew 26:38; Mark 3:4; Hebrews 10:39; James 5:20
I noticed that most of your quotes came from the Old Testament. One thing that many people don't realize is the whole concept of the afterlife is absent from pre exile Judaism. You will not find anything regarding the afterlife in the Torah. It was only those Jews returning from the exile that...
Lev. 17:11, "Because the NeFeSH of the flesh, it is in the blood..." The soul is not the living flesh, it is in the flesh.
Gen 9:4 "Only flesh with its NeFeSH, its blood you shall not eat." This is living flesh, yet the verse still differentiates between its flesh and its soul.
Ex. 1:5...
and this is where jewish thought and the hebrew scriptures part way.
The soul IS the living flesh according to the hebrew scriptures. Man was non existent before God created him from the dust and breathed life into him. When he came to life, he was a soul. Animals are also called 'souls'...
Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten
Psalm 115:17 The dead themselves do not praise Jah, Nor do any going down into...
not quite.
Ezekiel 18:4 Look! All the soulsto me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the sonto me they belong. The soul that is sinningit itself will die
Judges16:30 And Samson proceeded to say: Let my soul die with the Phi·lis′tines.
Job 33:22 And his...
Hi, May.
I would agree with most of your ten "requirements" of the true Church -- at least with some qualifications. Specifically, I would go along fully with numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 9.
I would agree with number 1, except that you and I have different understandings as to who Jehovah is. I...
so who is the true followers of Jesus christ ,it must be the one doing the will of God
1. The true religion worships the only true God, Jehovah.Deuteronomy 6:4, 5; Psalm 146:5-10; Matthew 22:37, 38.
2. The true religion offers access to God by means of Christ Jesus.John 17:3, 6-8; 1...