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We have a different way of looking at the same thing. I would say that I am obstinate about it because of something that I was taught when I was young, that God did not make provision for what happens to man when he dies.
They were not made immortal, however the possibility of not having to experience death was available to them. (Gen 3:22)
That is correct. It goes along with what I just said about becoming an atheist. Here is a continuation of the same theme, which is if God is all knowing, why did God go ahead and make the universe, knowing failure was inevitable? Isn't that cruel and does that make God evil?
I think I have seen you comenting on threads about predestination before right? And you are repulsed by the idea that God knew what was going to happen before he even created us?
Originally posted by jmdewey60
Jesus is not immortal because because he is eternal. That is if you were to call everything that he ever was and ever will be "Jesus", and not just talking about the human person Jesus. Obviously that person did not exist before he was born. What became Jesus is just as eternal as God since it was God. "It" is of course the wrong term because I am not talking about a thing, but an aspect of God that is so essential to how everything in the universe works that it has a self awareness and shares some attributes with those that would be considered part of being an individual person. That just described became an individual person when he became who we know as Jesus.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
Oh, that is a big thing in my church, conditional immortality. I am not an expert on it but I get the general principle.