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To: DManA

Not according to Luke and the account of Lazarus and the rich man. While stated to be a parable, I believe it to be an account of the state of the dead both the saved and the damned. Once Christ died and preached in hell, “proving he was the Christ” this was also proof that the dead were very much awake and aware. God is, after all God of the living and not of the dead! Christ would not have preached to “sleeping dead”!


8 posted on 12/16/2013 8:31:52 AM PST by mdmathis6 (Secret Societies are like Sasquatch, you never catch one but they do leave footprints!)
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To: mdmathis6; cuban leaf; GonzoII

Our minds are stuck on this conveyor belt of time and we cannot escape it. All the confusion about what happens after you die stems from this (probably God imposed) limit on our imaginations.

When you die you leave this space/time continuum. We literally can’t imagine what happens then, thought the Bible gives us some hints. They are necessarily hints and parables because the Holy Spirit is trying to describe a 20 dimensional object to our minds that cannot handle anything more than three dimensions.


19 posted on 12/16/2013 8:55:02 AM PST by DManA
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