Matthew 22:29-32 (KJV) Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
This is not a difficult passage to understand when one has faith to believe all that Christ has said.
True. You're not resurrected yet, nor in the resurrection of the dead, except in your own mind.
Those of faith, like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, long ago physically dead, according to Christ are not dead even though their bodies are. They cannot be dead because God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Their bodies still are.
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and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
You're spiritual millennium is a pathetic joke of nothingness, born of a self-inflated sense of scholarly pretence.
Why would Christ say in the resurrection, physically dead saints are "of the living" and "are as the angels of God in heaven"?
Because they will be that way when resurrected from the graves?
Christ is the resurrection and the life, and whosoever lives and believes in Him shall NEVER die.
You do every time you sin. OSAS by faith alone is dead, and resurrection by doctrine alone is delusional.
When man has lived and partaken of Christ, the resurrection and the life, that is to have eternal spiritual life through His Spirit in us, and though our bodies will suffer death, our spirit ascends to heaven to be as the angels of God, spiritual body, not physical body.
True, if we endure and overcome temptation unto the end. Otherwise, we wake up in hell like all them that die in their sins.
Christ says that for man to know and enter the Kingdom of God they must be born again! (Jo 3) When man is born again, they are indwelt with the Holy Spirit sent from Christ, and with the Spirit in our spirit forever
Indwelt is a cute word.
Forever is now and in the end, if we keep ourselves from sinning, so that the devil touches us not.
Doctrinal salvation is worthless without doing it. Only those doing righteousness of God are righteous as He. Doctrinal righteousness only is dead faith alone trusting in one's own imagined justification.
Since Christ is the resurrection and the life, when we have faith in Him our spirit never dies
Believing we are saves is not the same as being saved. Just because we believe something, doesn't make it so.
but is as the angels in heaven who are spirit beings.
All angels and men are created spiritual beings with thought and intent and imagination of th eheart and mind.
And so, angels and men can have vain imaginations of their minds. Lucifer thinks in his heart to be God, and you think in your heart to be an angel in heaven. You're both delusional.
John sees faithful saints in heaven alive after they had physically died in time, which a thousand years are.
True. They're not yet resurrected and as angels with immortal bodies as angels. And especially not any person still in natural bodies on earth.
, and the physical body of faithful saints will not be resurrected immortal & incorruptible until the last trump sounds and they are physically resurrected and changed.
True. That's why you're not as an angel in heaven yet, and you certainly aren't one on earth, except as a fallen one with legends of grandeur in your own mind.
The first mention of living souls of martyred saints John writes had already lived and reigned with Christ in time, he likens to a thousand years.
You liken your spiritualized imaginary millennium for however long you want. It doesn't matter, because it's no more real than your angel status in heaven.
But when John mentions those holy and blessed of the first resurrection who have overcome the second death, he says they too shall reign with Christ in this same time he likens to a thousand years.
No, that time God says is a thousand years. I liken your imagination to a balloon full of hot air.
Since Christ is the first resurrection, and whosoever lives and believes in Him shall never die,
Lively faith in Christ is loving and obeying Him. All other faith without obedience is hypocritical imagination alone.
No one knows and lives and walks with Christ by doctrine alone. Men can write all the doctrinal theology we wish. It doesn't get us any closer to God.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded
John's vision shows whosoever has faith to believe
Once again. There's nothing alive about 'faith to believe'. That's just believing what we want. I have faith to believe I can fly. It doesn't mean I can nor will fly.
Faith to believe is the talk of folly. "If you can believe it, then you can do it." Is a lie for foolish children. It's a feel good philosophy of people with too much time on their hands, because they aren't doing anything in life.
that ALL who live and reign with Christ in time shall not die,
Spiritual reigning only is as empty as believing only.
You have plenty of doctrine, but no works proving it. You reign over nothing but your own imagination on this earth. And you certainly aren't reigning over any angels in heaven. Send one down to tell me your name, then I'll believe you. Until then, words of doctrine only are as empty as words of faith only.
and as Christ has promised shall always be with Him wherever He is.
If your in the throne room, then send your voice down from the excellent glory, so I can hear it. And mention your name, so I'll know it's you.
It matters not whether the faithful live with Him as spirit souls in heaven or live with Him as complete human
'Complete human' is redundant.
once more on the new earth. Not even death can keep us from Him, if in TIME, likened to a thousand years, we partake of Christ's resurrection, for He is THE resurrection and the life, and whosoever lives (time) and believes in Him shall NEVER die.
Doctrinal gobbledygook.