@Earburner
@GerhardEbersoehn
Hello there,
Is this still concerning the 1000 year reign of the Overcomer with Christ, which is called the millennium? Surely there is sufficient Scriptural evidence for that period of time, if not for the word used to describe it? (Revelation 20)
Regarding the gift of eternal life, though it is ours by promise (1 John 2:25, 1 John 5:11-12), it does not become ours in fact until the resurrection, does it?
In Christ Jesus
Chris
Hi, I don't want drag this out, but we all need to go back and re-center the core of our understandings, and why there is conflict with others and their understandings.
I think most Christians read NT prophecy through the
filter of numerous preconceived theories, of which many false doctrines have been concocted, promoted and then accepted by the majority of the churches as truth.
By having it wrong from the get-go, at the foundation, well the story is, everything else in the building must be manipulated and manuevered, and still the roof doesn't fit!
In an analogy, we can draw a circle on a flat surface, establish its perfect center, and in the direction of North, all of us with eyes closed and pen in hand, can draw a line to the top of the outer perimeter of that circle very accurately, being off only a couple of degrees. The problem with that is, North is not at the top of any circle, until a Compass is applied for the true orientation.
So then, by one word, I led all astray by causing all to assume that North is always at the "top" of a circle.
Jesus said in John 11[
26] And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall
never die. Believest thou this?
Jesus, in the Eternity of Himself made to be flesh, is talking to people who are completely mortal, knowing nothing other than, that death is death!
But then said: "whosoever liveth and believeth in me
shall
never die".
Honestly, from our mortal perspective, there are only two ways to think on that.
In the moment of death, through faith in Jesus, we will either continue to live on into eternity with our flesh and blood body, or we will live on, leaving this body behind?
So then, that begs the real question, for correct orientation, right out of the gate:
**Was Adam given an eternal soul, or is it that Adam became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7 KJV.
According to the KJV, there was nothing eternal, or eternally given to Adam by the Eternal God. However, the majority have assumed otherwise, and as a result
think that they are heading "North".
**Note: Moses, the author of Genesis, had no idea or knowledge about the gaseous elements, that make up our air/atmosphere.
As a result, he called it "the breath of life".
Today, we all know that it is Oxygen that is required in our blood, that keeps our mortal flesh alive! Leviticus 17:11a
No Oxygen? Then there will be NO life, no matter what one breathes!