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To: eastsider
Just as Mt 12:32 ("... whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come") implies the possibility of forgivenes in the age to come.

Of course it does...Live people in that age, not dead people from this age...

Mat 12:32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

64 posted on 02/22/2015 3:23:49 PM PST by Iscool
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To: Iscool
Of course it does...Live people in that age ...
The age to come is not simply different in time but different in quality. Cf. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, 2 ed., (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), "αἰῶν" 2b:
ὁ αἰῶν μέλλῶν ... opposed to the αἰῶν οὔτος both in time and quality, cf. Mt 12:32 [οὔτε ἐν τούτῳ τῷ αἰῶνι οὔτε ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι]; Eph 1:21 [ἐν τῷ αἰῶνι τούτῳ ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι] ...
(bold emphasis added).
69 posted on 02/22/2015 5:56:50 PM PST by eastsider
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