Since both Jesus and the OT both teach ' sleep ' in death - Psalm 115:17; Isaiah 38:18; Ecclesiastes 9:5; John 11:11-14
Then ' second death ' would also equate to unconscious 'sleep'
Please notice what kind of sleep as Jeremiah 51:39,57 brings to our attention:
A permanent sleep with No chance...
Isaiah 45:7, Isaiah 45:7 - God Calls Cyrus evil or calamity is the most common translation. Evil and Calamity in this context means evil/calamity as relatively experienced by living souls.
God's Divine will comes from Heaven and manifests on Earth, so yes, if God's Heavenly will is to destroy a...
Why are you so concerned?
Are you trying to teach us that Divine justice "has no teeth"?
..so we might as well do as we please?
It's a very unbalanced view .. millions of people can suffer through oppression by "Pharaohs" for
>60 years, and nothing bad will happen to them .. they just cease to...
Ecclesiastes 12:7 B is clear that one's spirit is a neuter "IT" Not a person.
ALL of a wicked person is ' destroyed forever ' -> Psalms 92:7; 104:35; 145:20; Proverbs2:21-22; Rev. 21:8
We find the word ' rot ' at Proverbs 10:7 in connection to the wicked one's name.
No fire needed for something...
Yes, interesting Adam as red clay and that is why sometimes Adam is portrayed as having red hair.
Yes, when God breathed the 'breath of life' into life-less Adam then Adam came to life - Gen. 2:7
( Adam went from non-life, to life, and at death returned back to non-life - Gen. 3:19 )
Yes, God...
Please note that one's spirit which returns to God from whence it came (Ecclesiastes 12:7), and which you refer to it as a neuter 'IT', is the returning soul through which God interfaced with the body during the time the human was alive. A living soul refers to the living human being, who is...
Yes, a new heavens and new earth.
Earth as in 'planet' and also Earth as in 'people' - compare Genesis 1:1 with Genesis 11:1
Since Peter did Not know about the Periodic Table then the 'elements' would be the elementary base things to be dissolved.
Those bringing ruin to Earth will be brought to...
True, those resurrected to heaven have a spirit body as resurrected Jesus has - Revelation 20:6
'flesh' ( physical ) can Not inherit the kingdom - 1st Corinthians 15:50
True, God is in Heaven (1st Kings 8:39) so one's spirit (IT) returns to God.
Please notice one's spirit (IT) Ecclesiastes 12:7...
Since the wicked are ' destroyed forever ' - Psalm 92:7; Psalm 104:35; Psalm 145:20 ; Proverbs2:21-22 - there is No need for them to be part of a second resurrection but rather: second death - Revelation 21:8
The living figurative ' sheep ' at the time of Matthew 25:31-34,37 are not alone on...
I agree there is levels of waywardness that esculate beyond unrighteous behaviour, that would manifest to the level of wickedness.
It may be that wickedness ends in the 2nd death, that of the Spirit.
Regards Tony
To me there is a difference between the three: righteous/ unrighteous/ wicked.
In the Bible both the righteous and unrighteous (KJV just and unjust) will have a resurrection. - Acts 24:15
Whereas, the wicked will be gone ' destroyed forever ' - Psalms 92:7; 104:35; 145:20; Proverbs2:21-22
The...
Sure it was 'easy enough' in the paradisical Garden of Eden - Genesis 2:17
I find it is the 'god' of this world of badness - 2nd Corinthians 4:4, aka sinner Satan the Devil - John 8:44 - who threw a monkey wrench into God's purpose of Genesis 1:28 _________
If you were out working in your...
That same Bible ALSO prescribes different penalties for different sins. Some sins get the death penalty. Some get only a fine. Some have no penalty at all. So the Bible certainly does not TREAT all sins the same.
In Scripture sin is either: deliberate or not, on purpose or not, intentional or not, premeditated or not......
The wages ( total complete asking price that sin pays in full is: death - Romans 6:7 )
ALL have the opportunity to 'repent ' if one does Not want to 'perish' - 2nd Peter 3:9
Under the...
Two comments:
1. The word used in the original Greek for Acts 2:27 says HADES. Hades was simply the abode of the dead, not hell, more comparable to Sheol in Judaism. NOT HELL.
2. I'm not sure why you think I would care about anything in the New Testament. Would you also like to quote the...
At Jesus' death Jesus went to biblical hell aka temporary grave - Acts 2:27 - which is Not Gehenna
Gehenna was a garbage pit outside of Jerusalem where things were: destroyed.
Thus, Gehenna is a fitting word for: destruction.
Please notice it is the 'wicked' who are ' destroyed forever ' -...
Religion in general does Not have to be about one's purpose even though an inquiring mind wants to know.
People do look to religion for answers but often religion is corrupted even going as far back to ancient Babylon.
As those ancient people migrated away from ancient Babylon they took with...