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To: Elsie
From what I read, we ALL process 'eternal life'.

Not exactly. All souls conceived have erternal existence. Not all have eternal life.

There are three kinds of life: physical, spiritual, and eternal

o Physical life means union of soul, spirit, and body in one functioning, self-perpetuated unit.

o Spiritual life is communication of a human's mind and spirit with The God's mind and spirit, with a felicity of fellowship conferred on the union.

o Eternal life is the existence in perpetuity of the human tripartite person in God's realm of Heaven of absolute life without death being present, and creativity and renewal having dominion.

There are three kinds of death:

o Physical death is separation o the soul and spirit from the earthly body.

o Spiritual death is the separation and lack of communication of man's spirit and mind with God's spirit and mind, as well as separation from the dead spirits of other humans, resulting in spiritual isolation and absence of any kind of fellowship, with only one's shortcomings to contemplate, never to be revised.

o Eternal death is the prolonged suffering of a human's mind and spirit in a body too painful to ever have rest, and upon which is inflicted the agony of the Lake of Fire, augmented by the addition of death and hell into it, with not a moment to rest or create any alternative. There is no unity of thought or principle or design there, only destruction.

Not everyone receives eternal life, Els, although annihilation is not an alternative option either, as far as I can deter,ine from the Bible.

652 posted on 07/02/2018 4:40:33 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1; Elsie

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Everythjing you hape posted is of human imagination.


653 posted on 07/02/2018 4:45:08 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: imardmd1
Eternal death is the prolonged suffering of a human's mind and spirit in a body too painful to ever have rest, and upon which is inflicted the agony of the Lake of Fire, augmented by the addition of death and hell into it, with not a moment to rest or create any alternative. There is no unity of thought or principle or design there, only destruction.

I've yet to see this in the Bible.

I can only go with what Daniel has written:

Daniel 12:2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.


I guess I could have been more explicit with my claim of eternal 'life' for all.

I was thinking more of the ETERNAL part, than the exact definition of what 'life' would be like in that place where the worms never die.

677 posted on 07/02/2018 8:01:01 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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