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[Gorgias]

N 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

So these people who are still living on earth now have everlasting life.

Sure. Not quite certain what you’re getting at, though. Yes, we believe that we who have accepted Christ’s gift of grace and who cooperate with it in our lives, will have everlasting life in heaven.

So these people who are still living on earth now have everlasting life.
JN 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

So this could be referring to the 3 days Jesus was in the tomb and preaching to the people in the borderland, or it could mean when these people live their next life they will have access to the Holy Ghost and therefore eternal life.

The “next life” is eternal life.

I’d assert that, in this verse, Jesus is affirming that there is a resurrection. In John 11:25, Jesus says, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live.” This isn’t reincarnation – it’s resurrection!

huck:

The souls of the people will come back in a brand new body which would be resurection.

Not “brand new”, as in “a body that’s foreign to them”. Aquinas speaks to this when he talks about how we are a body/soul composite, and therefore, in the eschaton, we will regain our bodies – glorified, incorruptible, re-created. However, we do not just “get a new body”, as if it were the newest model of a car we once owned.

huck:

an individual can have eternal life regardless of whether he is presently having a lifetime experience on earth.

Right: the dead will rise at the second coming of Jesus. In fact, even though their bodies are dead, their souls continue to live.

huck:

The above makes it appear that salvation hangs on having a lucky lifetime, in actuality we use these lifetimes build on each other.

I would disagree with your former assertion; your latter doesn’t follow logically.

It’s not about being “lucky” in our lives that gains for us salvation – it’s belief in Jesus and acceptance of His grace and cooperation with that grace in the way we live our lives. You can be “lucky” or “unlucky” or somewhere in between, and it doesn’t affect your salvation.

Moreover, “multiple lifetimes that build on each other” doesn’t make sense, either. Ask yourself “what’s the goal of ‘multiple lifetimes’?” If it’s the attainment of a goal, then you’re saying that Christ is unnecessary – all that’s needed is one’s own chutzpah in order to be saved! (The Christian Church rejected that theory in its first few centuries.)

huck:

When we die the higher self takes what it learned and hopefully the next life will be more informed about right and wrong.

For the sake of argument, I’ll go along with this thought. Still, I have to ask: what’s the ultimate purpose of “next lives”?

 

[huck]

When we die the higher self takes what it learned and hopefully the next life will be more informed about right and wrong.

The goal is to be in communion with God. We view God as a spirit, so the goal is to unite our spirits into one with God.
Since Jesus made several comments on forgiveness ( The Lords prayer, parables, and teachings) I’ll use forgiveness as an example. What Jesus accomplished for humanity was he obeyed God which enabled the Holy Ghost to come to earth. It’s the fulfillment of a prophecy in Ezekiel.
EZEK 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
EZEK 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
When we first started incarnating our conscience was very limited with regards to right and wrong and when we were wronged by someone we found it difficult to forgive. As we went through more and more lifetimes our higher self began gaining an understanding of right and wrong and that would always be reflected in our conscience. We also learn that life is easier if one forgives all harm done. The goal then would be able to have the ability through the HG to forgive everyone we become involved with.
PS. On the right side of my screen I have a complaint because I’ve replied to Gorgias 3 times. I need someone from the peanut gallery to post something so I can respond to them.