"She is asleep"...Christ lieing?

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When the soldier comes to ask Christ to heal his child, Christ merely tells the mourners she is sleeping. Does that mean He lied?
 
Christ uses this similar analogy in John Chapter 11:11-14:
He said this, and then told them, "Our friend Lazarus is asleep, but I am going to awaken him." So the disciples said to him, “Master, if he is asleep, he will be saved.” But Jesus was talking about his death, while they thought that he meant ordinary sleep. So then Jesus said to them clearly, "Lazarus has died.
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FuzzyBunny116 said:
When the soldier comes to ask Christ to heal his child, Christ merely tells the mourners she is sleeping. Does that mean He lied?
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Asleep doesn’t only refer to sleep itself, it can mean dead. For some reason I’m recalling something more theological about this passage but can’t remember details so I won’t bring it up.
 
Aureole said:
Asleep doesn’t only refer to sleep itself, it can mean dead. For some reason I’m recalling something more theological about this passage but can’t remember details so I won’t bring it up.
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Oops!!! Too late!🙂
 
VociMike said:
And not just to God. Even to humans, immortal souls, death is less than it seems, and more akin to sleep. But we can only know this by faith.
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Actually, God also talked of a spiritual death. If I remember Scott Hahn’s talk correctly, a more accurate translation of the Hebrews text tells us that God told Adam, “From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely die the death.”(Gen. 2:17). Another translation says you will surely die to die.

This “die to death” refers to a spiritual death in addition to a physical death.
 
VociMike said:
And not just to God. Even to humans, immortal souls, death is less than it seems, and more akin to sleep. But we can only know this by faith.
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Since there will be a bodily resurrection of all the dead at Christ’s Second Coming, perhaps Jesus also chose to liken death to sleep in this instance in order to emphasize death’s transitory nature.
 
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