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NonServiam
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By your own definition, there is not – nor has there ever been – “something that does not exist,” which means that we can’t draw any sound conclusions about its properties.
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CarolVP
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We can never take one quote from Scripture, in isolation, to decide on what these eternal truths mean.I am confused. I thought that when we die, our souls would go straight to judgement. So, if that’s the case, wouldn’t we know that Jesus is lord then? But in this passage, if we wait for graves to open up, then where are our souls all the time before the graves open up? Are we not aware of consciousness until that point? Can someone explain please? This passage confused me now I am not sure what to think. thank you!
When we die, our souls do go straight to judgement, but it is an individual judgement, also called the particular or personal judgement. We are judge by God, based on how much we loved and served Him.
The opening up of graves is referring to the General Judgement, when our souls will be re-united with our bodies, and all who ever existed will know who God is, and will be judged ‘in public’, so to speak, of all un-repented sins. This was why Jesus told the story of the sheep and the goats.
Until this time of General Judgement, which will be at the end of the world, our individually-judged souls will be in one of three states/places - Heaven (for the completely pure of heart), Purgatory (those undergoing purification) or Hell (those who finally, and obdurately, chose against God). These states/places will be for our souls alone.
After the General Judgement, our souls will be united with our renewed bodies, to be in either Heaven or Hell.
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Pfaffenhoffen
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Fine. I agree.We can never take one quote from Scripture, in isolation, to decide on what these eternal truths mean.
When we die, our souls do go straight to judgement, but it is an individual judgement, also called the particular or personal judgement. We are judge by God, based on how much we loved and served Him.
The opening up of graves is referring to the General Judgement, when our souls will be re-united with our bodies, and all who ever existed will know who God is, and will be judged ‘in public’, so to speak, of all un-repented sins. This was why Jesus told the story of the sheep and the goats.
Until this time of General Judgement, which will be at the end of the world, our individually-judged souls will be in one of three states/places - Heaven (for the completely pure of heart), Purgatory (those undergoing purification) or Hell (those who finally, and obdurately, chose against God). These states/places will be for our souls alone.
After the General Judgement, our souls will be united with our renewed bodies, to be in either Heaven or Hell.
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RCCB
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Rather unexpectedly there may be a definitive answer to that question, but controversially not coming from any established Christian tradition, it could cause some ‘gnashing’ of teeth! Quoting from a review of the Final Freedoms, a wholly new interpretation of the moral teaching of Christ that is predicated, founded upon such absolute proof.
Responding to an act of ‘perfect faith’ comes "a direct individual intervention into the natural world by omnipotent power that confirms divine will, law, command and covenant, which at the same time, realigns our moral compass with the Divine, “correcting human nature by a change in natural law, altering biology, consciousness and human ethical perception beyond all natural evolutionary boundaries.”
“Called ‘the first Resurrection’ in the sense that the Resurrection of Jesus was intended to demonstrate Gods’ willingness to real Himself and intervene directly into the natural world for those obedient to His will, paving the way for access, by faith, to the power of divine transcendence and ultimate truth!”
I’ve been reading through a copy of the manuscript [free off the web] and I don’t think this has anything to do with theology?
Responding to an act of ‘perfect faith’ comes "a direct individual intervention into the natural world by omnipotent power that confirms divine will, law, command and covenant, which at the same time, realigns our moral compass with the Divine, “correcting human nature by a change in natural law, altering biology, consciousness and human ethical perception beyond all natural evolutionary boundaries.”
“Called ‘the first Resurrection’ in the sense that the Resurrection of Jesus was intended to demonstrate Gods’ willingness to real Himself and intervene directly into the natural world for those obedient to His will, paving the way for access, by faith, to the power of divine transcendence and ultimate truth!”
I’ve been reading through a copy of the manuscript [free off the web] and I don’t think this has anything to do with theology?
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