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To: Blogger
The second type of resurrection is the resurrection of the damned.

Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Is this the resurrection of the damned? Perhaps resurrection doesn’t require that you are made alive. I don’t have a good definition for resurrection, but I think that there are just two types, the first is physical, and the second is spiritual. Same as birth and death.
285 posted on 04/04/2007 10:58:23 PM PDT by Seven_0 (You cannot fool all of the people, ever!)
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To: Seven_0; Blogger; Lee N. Field; TomSmedley

RE: Rev 20:12

If this is just a resurrection of the unrighteous, why is the book of life mentioned? After all, the unrighteous are judged by their deeds and found wanting (Rom. 3:23; James 2:10).

“And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.” (v. 15)

This is the “reward” of the unrighteous. The very next verse begins to describe the reward of all the righteous.

“Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.”


291 posted on 04/05/2007 6:29:30 AM PDT by topcat54
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