.
Eternal life is not immortality.
The two are often confused
. Immortality refers to the nature of an
indestructible body
; while eternal life refers to the nature of an indestructible
soul.
Our souls are already immortal.
Far from being immortal
, the natural-born human soul is quite susceptible to
termination
.
†. Mtt 10
:28
. . Fear not them which kill the body
, but are not able to kill the
soul
: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell
.
Eternal Life is about intimate union with God. “Now this is eternal life, that
they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent,
Jesus Christ.” (John 17:3)
That's similar to what Jehovah
's Witnesses believe and teach door to door
;
and it
's close but no cigar.
The real meaning of John 17
:3 is that Christ gives his own eternal life in
order to make it possible for them to relate to God and/or His son on their
own level
. In other words
; it
's difficult for God and/or His son to relate to
human life because human life
's intuition is simply too limited
. Without both
parties having eternal life
, both parties would be frustrated trying to
communicate with each on a meaningful level even though they may be the
best of friends
.
For example
: my Guinea pig and I were really good buddies before she died
;
but Fuzzy had a pig
's mind and I have a man
's mind
. So we couldn
't relate
all that well
. We related as pets and their owners relate
; but never as
humans relate to humans because our minds were neither on the same
level nor on the same wave length
: she being animal life and me being
human life
. Well
; God and His son are eternal life
; which relates to human life
even less than a man and an animal
. So in my natural state
; they can
relate to me only on the level by which pets and their owners relate
; which
is pretty limited
.
all dietary restrictions have been dispensed with.
According to Heb 9
:16-17
, a testament is in force only upon the death of the
testator
. So
; since the Lord
's hand-picked men were all Jews whose religion
was the first testament
's regulations
; then they were still under its jurisdiction
the night of the Lord's last supper when he made the pronouncements located
at Mtt 26
:26-28.
According to the first testament
's regulations
, it
's illegal for Jews to consume blood
.
†. Lev 7
:26-27
. . You shall eat no manner of blood
, whether it be of fowl or
of beast
, in any of your dwellings
. Whatsoever soul it be that eats any manner
of blood
, even that soul shall be cut off from his people
.
The words "no manner of blood" and the words "any manner of blood" of
course include human blood otherwise language and grammar would serve
no practical purpose in the Bible
.
So then
, had the Lord actually fed his men transubstantiation prior to his
death
, he would have been guilty of leading them to violate their own God
given religion
's law
; and thus relegated himself to the status of least in the
kingdom of God
. (Mtt 5
:19)
Buen Camino
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