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Christ tells Martha "I am the resurrection and the LIFE". IOW in Him we live and breathe and have our being and that life we receive through Him shall NEVER die. Christ is telling her and us that physical death cannot end the life we have in Him. For that life shall never die. It's a present...

This helps to explain your confusion, since you appear not to have understanding of why man must be born again to have eternal life through Christ. Nor do you appear to have understanding of eternal life through Christ's Spirit. Ephesians 2:1-3 (KJV) And you hath he quickened, who were dead...

Ezekiel says "the soul who sins shall die." Who among mankind is not destined to physically die? Every human is destined to die since sin and death through sin entered creation.

Then why does Christ tell believers that they shall NEVER die? We know the physical body dies, so what never dies if not the spirit in man that returns to God? To be dead in trespasses in sins is not to be without spirit (breath of life). It means the only voice man that is dead in...

Why would Paul write the spiritual body is resurrected since in Christ, through His Spirit within us we shall NEVER die? It seems Paul understands those who physically die in faith ascend to heaven a spiritual body of believers as living souls! That's why Paul writes they are "raised" and not...

If the body resurrected is not flesh & bone why must it be changed to immortal and incorruptible? If the age to come on the new earth is going to be spiritual and not material why create a new heaven and new earth?

I agree! John simply writes they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. And shall reign with Him a thousand years. Both those who have lived and reigned in life before they died, and those who shall reign with Him before physical death, are with Christ during their lifetimes...

No he wasn't, I agree! He was qualifying how man is dead! In trespasses and sins! Why is that distinction important to understand? These words weren't spoken to those who had been physically dead, but were before having eternal life through Christ DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS! Does that not...

Paul writes it is raised (not resurrected) a spiritual body when our natural body has died! Where does the raised spiritual body go if not to heaven to be as is the Lord in heaven, a celestial/heavenly body of believers there? What is a supernatural physical body? Why is our mortal body...

Then why is every human destined to death, and all of creation also, that is the result of the first sin committed in the Garden of Eden?

Yes, the spirit is the breath of life that is within every living breathing creature upon the earth. When we are in Christ the breath of life within (spirit) that identifies who man is, does not die when our physical body dies. It returns to God who gave it (Ecc 12:7). If before we died our...

You're correct, God doesn't give man a spirit that is spiritually dead. Being born DEAD in trespasses and sins comes from the gene pool that comes from the first Adam. It is for that reason that man must be born again through the last Adam who is a life-giving Spirit. The first Adam has given...

Yes, I tend to agree. Trying to discern a spiritual body is difficult because spirit has no form and cannot be seen. I'm not speaking of the angels of God that are seen in Scripture having human form. I believe the breath of life given man at creation is the spirit within man. The spirit...

But none shall be physically resurrected immortal & incorruptible before an hour coming when the last trumpet sounds. Yes these, according to John have lived and reigned with Christ before they were physically martyred. That time they lived and reigned with Him is symbolized a thousand years.

I agree that to be resurrected means being raised to life again physically. But what does it mean when we read of those who are dead in trespasses and sins, but not physically dead being raised to life again? (Eph 2:5-6) Why doesn't John say the souls he saw in heaven after they physically died...

Yes, Scripture does say that man became a living soul, and that living soul is a physical body of flesh & bone, and a breath of life that is man's unseen spirit that returns to God when our physical body dies. The living souls in Rev 20 have been physically killed. As spiritual body of...

Where/how does the soul live on? If there is no living body, and the spirit returns to God, can the soul exist without life in some form?

Marty, yes, both the Law & Prophets, as well as the Gospel and Holy Spirit are all witnesses pointing to Jesus. They are four, not two. I don't believe they are symbolic of Moses and Elijah. Yes, I agree the Word of God is the power over life and death and is fire coming from the mouths of...

I can see how and why you make this connection between JtB and the two witnesses. I find some of these things that I don't think fit. For instance the two witnesses are called two olive trees and two candlesticks but are not called Elijah. Being Amil I too consider the two witnesses to be...

You and I are in complete agreement here. I agree we tend to be reactionary creatures even knowing we ought to always choose to do good and sin not. Like you, I no longer allow sin to reign supreme, but also like you I sometimes (too often perhaps) tend to react before taking a moment to...