Hello, John and Doves,Brother Gino, you must be forgetting that Satan still hopes to outwit God and win the Kingship of the Universe. Aint gonna happen. Why? Cause God is infinitely smarter than anyone else.As such, God introduces seeming paradoxes so that all His children must ask Him what He means.This way, the Father guarantees fellowship between Himself and His children. Actually, it's just one of countless ways the Father has to draw His children to Himself.Having said that, we remember that Rabbi Shaul said,"So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus."Thus, it is also written,"If we live, it's to honor the Lord. And if we die, it's to honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord."And that, as they say, is that. So, there you go. And wherever you go, there you are.Baruch HaShem Yeshua HaMashiach,Mike C._________________________________________________________________Gino (21 Apr 2012)
"RE: Martin: FiveDoves: 04.17.12: Pondering"
Martin,
Jesus was the first person risen from the dead that death had no more power over, with an eternal resurrection body, never to die again. That was not the case with the others raised back to life, for example Lazarus, who died twice. Hebrews 9:27 shows that death is universal to all men, and that after death, they will be accountable for that life that they were given, and the things that they have done. If Hebrews 9:27 is an absolute guarantee that everyone has to die once, then how could Paul say to the Corinthians that we shall not all sleep, or to the Thessalonians about we which are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord? All those people don’t even die once.
Gino