Dear Lucy,
Your posts are very intriguing, although many times they are difficult for me to understand. I never watched the Matrix movies and I am not acquainted with Bible numerology. Some of what you write goes against what I have always believed, but it is good to rethink our beliefs and test them. Ultimately we all have to work out our own salvation and not depend on someone else's or a denomination's set of doctrines. I want to know truth and act on it. I do not want to believe falsehood or be deceived. The Bible says that the Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth. That is what I long for and pray for.
I love your humble and loving attitude and your desire to overcome your flesh. I agree we are to fight the sin in our lives. It seems to be a never ending battle, at least for me. :-( Sin always makes us and others unhappy and it certainly does not please our father in heaven. I believe that no matter how hard I try, I will always be flesh and will sin - even though it is not what my heart wants to do. Remember Paul saying that he did not do what he wanted to do and that he did what he did not want to do. And he was taught by Jesus himself! "O this body of death" he called it. Our flesh is emnity against our heavenly father.
If the wages of sin is death, how is it that we can never die a physical death? If Jesus, being sinless, died, how can we, who sin, expect to live forever without dying? He died and was resurrected to life. Is that not what will happen to us also?
The ONLY way I see that we could never die, is if Jesus returns while we are still alive, before we have a chance to die our physical death. Also, how bad is the physical death? Sometimes it is a great blessing. It is like going to sleep and then we wake being arisen by our Lord to live with Him forever in a changed body.
Thank you for taking the time to explain your position to me. If you could use scripture to back up your belief in living forever and never dying that would be helpful to me. If you would be willing to carry on a dialogue using scripture as our guide that would be more helpful to me than the Matrix comparisons.
Gratefully,
Joyful (At least most of the time!)
Your posts are very intriguing, although many times they are difficult for me to understand. I never watched the Matrix movies and I am not acquainted with Bible numerology. Some of what you write goes against what I have always believed, but it is good to rethink our beliefs and test them. Ultimately we all have to work out our own salvation and not depend on someone else's or a denomination's set of doctrines. I want to know truth and act on it. I do not want to believe falsehood or be deceived. The Bible says that the Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth. That is what I long for and pray for.
I love your humble and loving attitude and your desire to overcome your flesh. I agree we are to fight the sin in our lives. It seems to be a never ending battle, at least for me. :-( Sin always makes us and others unhappy and it certainly does not please our father in heaven. I believe that no matter how hard I try, I will always be flesh and will sin - even though it is not what my heart wants to do. Remember Paul saying that he did not do what he wanted to do and that he did what he did not want to do. And he was taught by Jesus himself! "O this body of death" he called it. Our flesh is emnity against our heavenly father.
If the wages of sin is death, how is it that we can never die a physical death? If Jesus, being sinless, died, how can we, who sin, expect to live forever without dying? He died and was resurrected to life. Is that not what will happen to us also?
The ONLY way I see that we could never die, is if Jesus returns while we are still alive, before we have a chance to die our physical death. Also, how bad is the physical death? Sometimes it is a great blessing. It is like going to sleep and then we wake being arisen by our Lord to live with Him forever in a changed body.
Thank you for taking the time to explain your position to me. If you could use scripture to back up your belief in living forever and never dying that would be helpful to me. If you would be willing to carry on a dialogue using scripture as our guide that would be more helpful to me than the Matrix comparisons.
Gratefully,
Joyful (At least most of the time!)
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