To: strongbow
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.
192 posted on
02/04/2004 7:30:05 PM PST by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: Quix
There YOU go again....
Trying to keep it in an overall context.
HOW DARE YOU?
I have these carved in stone doctrines to uphold.
207 posted on
02/04/2004 7:57:53 PM PST by
eccl1212
( "anybody else wanna negotiate?")
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