jiggyfly said:
I'm game, which one do you want to discuss?
http://www.christianityboard.com/topic/18253-is-there-opportunity-to-repent-after-death/#entry195604
jiggyfly said:
When using the accurate definition of aionios I still see the possibility of repentance after the flesh has expired.
Actually
aionios doesn't mean
age; it derives from the word that means
age.
Aionios means
perpetual, unending. It is used in that sense in Hebrews 9:12, 2 Corinthians 4:18, 1 Peter 5:10, Philemon 1:15, Romans 16:26, and about 60 other places. Check those out and see if
aionios means age-enduring.
Vine's complete expository dictionary of Old and New Testament words
“The predominant meaning of
aionios, that in which it is used everywhere in the NT, save the [3] places noted above
*, may be seen in 2 Cor. 4:18, where it is set in contrast with
proskairos, lit., ‘for a season,’ and in Philem. 15, where only in the NT it is used without a noun. Moreover it is used of persons and things which are in their nature endless, as, e.g., of God, Rom. 16:26; of His power, 1 Tim. 6:16, and of His glory, 1 Pet. 5:10; of the Holy Spirit, Heb. 9:14; of the redemption effected by Christ, Heb. 9:12, and of the consequent salvation of men, 5:9, as well as of His future rule, 2 Pet. 1:11, which is elsewhere declared to be without end, Luke 1:33; of the life received by those who believe in Christ, John 3:16, concerning whom He said, ‘they shall never perish,’ 10:28, and of the resurrection body, 2 Cor. 5:1, elsewhere said to be ‘immortal,’ 1 Cor. 15:53, in which that life will be finally realized, Matt. 25:46; Titus 1:2.
* the 3 places are Rom. 16:25; 2 Tim. 1:9; Titus 1:2 in which it basically means before time.