To: metmom
Because the Bible is not a catechism. Words are not used throughout the Bible with a single, univocal, fixed sense.
The “dead in Christ” are DEAD—in the normal, everyday sense of the word. But they partake in eternal life, so they are alive.
576 posted on
07/15/2013 12:52:18 PM PDT by
Arthur McGowan
(If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
To: Arthur McGowan
But they partake in eternal life, so they are alive.Then just WHO is going to RISE FROM THEIR tombs and the end?
ZOMBIES?
582 posted on
07/15/2013 12:57:22 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Arthur McGowan
The “dead in Christ” are DEAD—in the normal, everyday sense of the word.And since they are dead in the normal, everyday sense of the word, we are prohibited from contacting them.
831 posted on
07/16/2013 5:57:10 PM PDT by
metmom
(For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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