loverOfTruth
Well-Known Member
But we are talking about Living after all the sin of a person is forgiven, they shall live forever - yet they die.this verse in Ezekiel is explaining the sense in which God forgives and forgets. When Jehovah forgives a repentant sinner, he wipes the slate clean and forgets about the sin in the sense that he will not take action against that one for those sins at some future time.
So really, 'they will live' because God will not bring punishment on them by ending their life for their sins.
The everlasting life, as promised by God, can only come about during the jugement day...that is during the time when the Messiah leads mankind back to perfection by removing death. And without the Messiah, everlasting life is not possible because we will continue to sin and sin brings forth death. Only the messiah can remove death from us and that is why Jesus sacrifice is the only means for salvation.... because his death has been accepted in exchange for ours.
Your explanation sounds like :
2 + 2 = 5 (for extremely large values of 2)