[strongbow]

"Just as man is destined to die ONCE and then the judgement..... " (capitol letters mine)

How does one reconcile Hebrews 9:27 with such accounts?? Can man die more than once and avoid the judgement and the wrath of God? This leaves me sceptical of the principal and his story. The prince of darkness is powerful to decieve.

[Quix]

You are making

PRESUMPTIVE ASSUMPTIONS

about how God construes

"ONCE"

and

"THE JUDGMENT" in that Scripture.

A rather hazardous thing to do.

I doubt God has told you WHEN HE applies the ONCE to a given individuals dying incidents.

I'm very sure God has NOT told YOU when HE arranges a given individual's LAST JUDGMENT.

That one Scripture is hardly sufficient info to build a whole elaborate, emphatic, fossilized doctrine on.

It's just a clue or 3--and a sobering one--that we ought not take for granted the next moment. We all ought to treat each day, hour, minute as potentially our last.

I believe THAT is the purpose of that Scripture.

I doubt seriously it was intended as any serious treatment of The Father's DOCTRINES about dying or THE JUDGMENT. I believe it was an encouragment to treat

TODAY AS THE DAY OF SALVATION.

IF that was HIS PURPOSE IN THAT SCRIPTURE, using it to shoehorn in one's own biases about doctrine around death and jugment is at least likely to be seen as a little cheeky, from God's perspective.

[Fester Chugabrew]

How does one reconcile Hebrews 9:27 with such accounts?

How does one reconcile the raising of Lazarus with Hebrews 9:27?