I'm not the one calling God and His servants liars, you're doing a good job of that by denying Jesus as THE CHRIST, IMMANUEL (GOD with us).
And just how is it that you're doing that? By trying to show how GOD could be KILLED!!! The devil's gotta' love that one.
It was Christ's FLESH that died on the cross which Peter was referring to, not Christ as Immanuel God with us, for He is GOD THE SAVIOUR as written in the Book of Isaiah! Further proof of that by Peter was how he said Christ's Spirit was quickened by Which He also went to the spirits in prison (the pit of hell), and preached to them.
John 4:23-24
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
(KJV)
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A little lesson for those not versed in Jewish mysticism like the Pharisees that loved glorifying the flesh body, wrongly thinking that's all there is to the way God created us...
John 5:24
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.
(KJV)
Even when our flesh body dies, our spirit continues!!! It DOES NOT DIE.
But the blinded unbelieving Jews didn't understand that, nor this either...
Luke 20:37-38
37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
38 For He is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto Him.
(KJV)
Nor this...
Eccl 12:6-7
6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God Who gave it.
(KJV)
That "silver cord" is what keeps our spirit joined with our flesh body while we're living in our flesh body. When it is severed, those two parts go to their assigned place, the flesh back to the earthly elements of matter, and our spirit back to God. We are done with a flesh body at that point, for ever. The ONLY death remaining after that is death of our spirit and soul in the "lake of fire" at the end of Christ's thousand years reign. And that can only happen if we refuse to accept Jesus as The Christ, God The Saviour, Immanuel God with us, Who died in His flesh on the cross for us, but with His Spirit continuing. THAT is how only Jesus The Christ could offer us Everlasting Life, because He is The Everlasting Father as written in Isaiah 9:6.
And definitely not this...
2 Cor 5:1-4
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
(KJV)
When our flesh body dies, it goes back to the earthly elements where it came from. Our flesh is not the REAL part of our being from God. This flesh world is not our true Home. When we die, we are not waiting it out in a dug hole in the ground. Our spirit goes BACK TO GOD WHO GAVE IT. That means life AFTER flesh death folks!!
This is why our Lord Jesus gave the story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16. Both Lazarus and the rich man's flesh died and was buried (sent back to the elements), but Lazarus's spirit was carried to the bosom of Abraham, while the rich man found himself in hell, across a great fixed gulf border from where Lazarus was.
The "spirits in prison" which Jesus preached to were in that same place as the "rich man" of Luke 16. It was prophecy in Isaiah that Christ would lead those who believed on Him out of the darkness of that pit prison.
In saying that only "Christ's flesh" died, you have yielded to the false belief that something exists apart from the body, such as the soul being immortal, which was taught by Greek philosopher Plato and later absorbed into so-called "Christianity". You have discarded what Isaiah prophetically wrote concerning Jesus that "hath poured out his soul
unto death."(Isa 53:12,
King James Bible) Or that the spirit is something that lives on after death.
The Bible does not teach that anything exists apart from the body upon death. Jesus was born completely human, for he called himself "the Son of man."(Matt 8:20; 9:6) In addition, the apostle Paul wrote: "It is even so written: “The first man Adam became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit."(1 Cor 15:45) Thus, Jesus was equal to Adam as a perfect human, that breathed and died.
And of the name Immanuel (With Us is God) that was prophectically given to Jesus, who was the person named Immanuel in the 8th century before Christ at Isaiah 7:14 ? Also, please explain who Ithiel was at Nehemiah 11:7, which means "With Me is God" ? Was God with Ithiel ? You are trying to promote the trinitarian doctrine that Jesus is God, of which he is not, for he himself said that to Mary: "I am
ascending to my God and your God."(John 20:17)
You are among a whole host of people that have not developed the ability to reason effectively based on the evidence, allowing a prejudicial viewpoint to dominate. You accept what the churches have taught for almost 1700 years, despite the scriptural evidence to the contrary. When the Bible says that "Jesus died", you say, hmmm, that does not mean really that he died, only his "flesh". This is no different than Nestorius, an early 5th-century patriarch of Constantinople, who apparently taught that Christ was actually two persons in one, the human Jesus and the divine Son of God. In giving birth to Christ, Mary gave birth to the
man but not to the
divine Son. So, you reason that the
man Jesus died, but not the
divine Son.
Jesus said that "just as the Son of man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister and to give his soul a ransom in exchange for many.”(Matt 20:28) Thus, Jesus gave his "soul" or life as a person, in order to provide "a ransom in exchange for many." This exchange of Jesus life, whereby he died and was non-existent for parts of 3 days (Matt 12:40), is for those who would become obedient. The death of Jesus was required by God. Otherwise, as the apostle Paul said of genuine Christians: "If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied."(1 Cor 15:19)
Of our spirit, you say that it continues upon death. First, what is the spirit, another person within us that lives on ? Let's see. The
Encarta Dictionary says: "1. life force of individual: a vital force that characterizes a living being as being alive."(
Microsoft® Encarta® Reference Library 2005) What does the Bible teach ? The word spirit comes from the Greek word
pneu´ma and Hebrew
ru´ach, that basically means "breath." Is our breath something that lives on after death ? These Greek and Hebrew words are also be rendered as wind at Genesis 8:1 and John 3:8. Is the wind something that has life ?
At Proverbs 15:13, it says: "A joyful heart has a good effect on the countenance, but because of the pain of the heart there is a
stricken spirit." Is the spirit here something separate from the body ? Another definition for spirit is "2. will: somebody’s will, sense of self, or enthusiasm for living."(
Microsoft® Encarta® Reference Library 2005) Is somebody's will to live something separate from the body, that lives on after death ? Hence, the different meanings of spirit can be
wind (John 3:8, Gen 8:1); the
vital force in living creatures (Gen 6:17);
one’s spirit as at Genesis 41:8 concerning Pharaoh and 45:27 concerning Jacob;
spirit persons, including God and his angelic creatures as at 2 Chronicles 18:20; and
God’s active force, or
holy spirit, as at Genesis 1:2. All these meanings have something in common: They all refer to that which is invisible to human sight and which gives evidence of force in motion. Such invisible force is capable of producing visible effects.
Thus, when Matthew recorded that after "Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and yielded up [his] spirit" at Matthew 27:50, Jesus lost his impersonal life force that animates all of us, like electricity that operates a fan or refrigerator or any electrical item. For example, unplug the power cord of any fan from it's power source and the fan dies. Psalms 104:29 says: "If you take away their spirit,
they expire, and back to their
dust they go." Ecclesiastes 12:7 says that upon death: "Then the dust returns to the earth just as it happened to be and the spirit itself returns to the [true] God who gave it."
Hence, a
person dies, and all hope of living again is in the hands of God.
Jesus thus died, "pour(ing) out his soul to the
very death."(Isa 53:12) He was now non-existent, being only in God's memory, so that after three days in the grave (Matt 12:40), he was resurrected ("resurrection", Greek
a·na´sta·sis, literally meaning “raising up; standing up") to life again, receiving his spirit or life force back from God.