You keep stating time and again that if someone draws a conclusion other than the one you come up with, it is an absurdity. You are sounding like a broken record.
Don't just tell me that I'm sounding like a broken record - refute me. Eplain why the conclusions I draw from your premises are not valid and not absurd. You say you have the Son and you have eternal (eonian life). What happens to your eternal life when you breathe your last in this life? Nothingness? For some unspecified period of time? If in death, "you got nuthin'" you ain't got no eternal life, neither. Eternal life is not nothingness. You say you have eternal life now, but if your life stops for some unspecified period of time then you don't have eternal life now.
Please explain how you, a living person, "have passed (perfect active indicative)from death to life."
When we get together in the resurrection, and I’m sure we will, I will bring up this matter again with you, and then it is my opinion that you will indeed retract your statement about my words being “the most forlorn and pitiable words I have ever seen written on FreeRepublic.”
Well, we shall see. I don't know who will see first, but I am certain there will be a lot more clarity on the subject when that happens.
Cordially,
I wish you would pay more attention to what I actually say, instead of what you think I said. I am definitely in Christ. I do NOT have eternal (eonian) life NOW; rather, since I do have Christ I also have the ASSURANCE OF HAVING eonian life when “the eon” (the kingdom of God) should come and when I will be resurrected to have this eonian life. So, there’s nothing absurd or contradictory in my statements. So, I don’t have to “refute you.” So, you say that I say that I have eternal life now, but I say that what you say is not what I say.
I, a living person, WILL pass (future active indicative) from death to life.
I have the Son (and because I do) and I indeed have life.
Let me ask you a question. Where was Jesus for three days and three nights after He was crucified? (I think I can guess what you will reply, but I don’t want to put words in your mouth).
Is death a reward or a punishment? (okay, that’s two questions).
Is death an enemy to be abolished? (three questions).