To: RonHolzwarth
My memory is that one of the translations says it that way on one of the related Scriptures.
Suffice it to say, Scripture is not particularly clear what those verses mean.
Nevertheless,
IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MAN ONCE TO DIE, AND AFTER THAT THE JUDGMENT
seems clearer.
If, for some very strange and to my mind very unBiblical reason one wanted to believe in reincarnation . . . and still pretend they were submitted and obedient to God Almighty, I'd think they would have to submit to at least the abundant evidence that God is not interested in our living in this time space dimension with any other construction on it than that THIS IS OUR BOOT CAMP and we have one pass through it which will decide a lot of eternal things.
I suppose mileage can very . . . but Scripture lays some sort of limit out about it all whether we are willing to wrap our minds around it or not.
139 posted on
04/24/2004 5:44:59 PM PDT by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: Quix; CyberAnt
I dunno about that Latin story about the Gospels, it sounds suspicious to me. You can be sure I am going to research that later.
CyberAnt is correct, the RSV does say:
Hebrews Chapter 9:
[27] And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,
But that verse is not in the Gospels, and is therefore not a quote attributed to Jesus.
While it may be canonized by the Christian church, it is in the New Testament, and therefore not a firm Jewish belief.
So, someone using that as an argument to me, would be very much the same as someone quoting the Holy Koran to you, and presenting it to you as scriptural Truth.
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