Posted on 07/09/2021 9:45:59 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Lazarus was dead 4 days before he was called out of the tomb, and there is no record of him seeing anything at all.
23 minutes. You are not dead until your blood is dead. An oxygen shortage would cause hallucinations.
“So Judgment Day already took place?”
No, there is no “judgement day” for determining whether a person goes to Heaven or Hell. You physically die apart from the Blood of Christ and Hell is waiting for you.
Interesting-—However, was he saved at the time? I assume not——if not, to he decide to follow Christ?
His description of Hell doesn’t line up with the Bible’s. Demons are not the masters of Hell. They will be cast into the lake of fire after the judgement, to suffer untold torment just like those that die unredeemed.
“where did the bodies come from?”
“I questioned that. In hell, people there won’t be “bodies”, they’ll be fully aware of their eternal torment. They’ll wish they were bodies”
I think you are wrong.
As Paul wrote: To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord; if you’re not saved by Jesus’ grace then where do you think you’ll be while waiting for the Final Judgement?
This reminds me of a joke I heard a while back:
“A crook dies and goes to hell. When he gets there he sees it’s a big stadium with Satan standing in the middle preaching hate and evil from a stage. A demon tells him the seating arrangements are based on evil, for example the least evil people, people who just shoplifted sit way in the back but rapists, murders sit in the front. The crook then sees Hitler, Stalin and Mao sitting in the second row. The crooks asks the demon “I thought you said the seating was arranged according to evil, so why aren’t Hitler, Stalin and Mao sitting in the first row?” The demon say “Oh that first row is reserved for Democrats”
My body will be in the earth, decomposing back to the dust. Where my soul resides until the Judgement is another matter.
You have to wonder where your soul came from in the first place. Who are you (editorially speaking) and where did you come from?
Great point...but he did name Lazarus and Abraham. Which to my understanding tells me that Lazarus was real and that Hades is real.
Yeah what took him so long?
As a believer I am not convinced about the Catholic vision of hell. I am inclined to think for instance that Satan and his minions will also suffer in hell, not be rulers of it. And if hell is simply an absence from God, the dark pit seems to be more accurate.
Peeeshaw, it was a great dream in which he filled in the gaps and colored the entire story.
This guy must have pissed off somebody in very low places.
An old Mafia punishment, at least according to Hollywood, if not deserving death outright, was to be wrapped up like a mummy, ears plugged with wax and suspended from cables from the ceiling of a soundproof room. Total sensory deprivation: no light, no sound and no feeling of weight, nothing.
It was said to make men go totally insane...............................
You dog…um…I mean Badger.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but; God is and always has been outside of time. He lives in the “Forever Now”. He knew how it would end long before the beginning; before He made anything. Example: God’s Word calls Jesus Christ “The Lamb slain before the foundation of the world”. 1st Peter 1:19-20, etc. God knew Adam would fail, but He wanted a Forever Family, so He designated His sinless Son to die for all our sins. It’s free, but it wasn’t cheap. It cost the Sacrifice of God’s Only Son. Anyone can have Eternal Life; but they must ASK for it.
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