[topcat54]

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.”

[Seven_0]

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).

I am just trying to get a good definition of resurrection from scripture. It appears to me that the resurrection of damnation, from John 5:29, allows for the dead to remain dead.