Interesting preterist argument

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Davy

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I actually don't believe so. Not really. Yes, our bodies die, but we are immediately "resurrected" in spiritual form, so we continue to live, but in a different form. Jesus told us "If you believe in me, you will never die. Do you believe this?". I believe it.

Prior to Jesus, people died. That's why the old testament is full of the phrase "He slept with his fathers in the dust of the earth". That phrase was never used in the new testament, because men no longer sleep in the dust of the earth. At that time King Solomon said "the dead know nothing". There was actual death back then, but that no longer applies, because we will never be dead. We who live today, will never experience the state of death.

It doesn't matter what you believe about flesh death to try and support your faulty view, simply because the concept of death is not destroyed until after Christ's future "thousand years" reign, as written in Revelation 20...

Rev 20:14
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is
the second death.
KJV


Therefore, even though you want to refer to the idea of resurrection to mean 'death' is now no more, the above still makes your theory wrong, for the "second death" of one's spirit with soul cast into the future "lake of fire" is when the concept of "death" will also go into the "lake of fire" and be no more. Until that future "lake of fire" event, the "second death" is still in effect for the wicked.

And per Jesus in John 5:28-29, the wicked dead will also have a resurrection on the day of Jesus' future coming, which their's is called the "resurrection of damnation". Those will stand in condemnation all throughout Christ's future "thousand years" reign with His elect.