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To: 1000 silverlings; HarleyD
No, not true, for David affirms that He is God of the living when he says that God will not leave his soul in the grave, or in Hell, for if He did, then the living, David after death, could not worship Him

Only the Sadduccees denied resurrection. Again, there is no Hell. The Judaic idea of Shoel is one closer to "waiting room" for all souls not just the wicked ones than to a final resting place. Judaism overwhelmingly believed in resurrection of the dead -- but not in heaven but on earth. In the OT it is expressly mentioned in Daniel, itself a controversial book of uncertain origin or date.

The Jews believed that the soul is immortal, and still do. So, there was no death for the soul. That's why they considered God the God of Life. This is a completely different concept than the Christian idea of salvation. The Jews have no concedpt of man being born 'depraved" or spiritually dead. Thus, being "saved" is taken literally (i.e. from the Pharaoh) and not spiritually.

The problem is that in Judaism the common phraseology encountered in Christianity has different, sometimes unrelated meaning. The similarity is only superficial.

6,496 posted on 05/12/2006 6:27:29 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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That may all well be true on one level. Spiritual giants like David, though, understood differently.


6,497 posted on 05/12/2006 6:29:25 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings
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