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A "soul" is your person.
If Jesus is at the highest level with God and it is impossible for a soul to be at that level, this indicates that Jesus somehow had two consciousnesses, one divine and one human in the same body on earth and that they would separate upon reaching heaven. That or Jesus had no soul.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
A "soul" is your person.
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son.
Goodbye, immortal soul...
Originally posted by SpiritofEnoch
reply to post by Greatest I am
I do not wish to profit from anything.
I only want what I am given.
Eternal life? If it's there.
Eternal peace? Thats the goal. Not just mine, everyone's.
But all of these things are accomplished, or the seeds sown at least, not by my will, but the will of my Fathers. (Does it help to use an s there? God is certainly at the pinnacle of the responsibility tree, but He can't want to take all the credit, can He? Certainly if men are responsible for their own sins, they are also responsible for their good, right?)
Remember, Jesus is not dead. The true message was not "Follow Jesus and get crucified, or you don't love him and must die," it was "We crucified Jesus and God raised Him from the dead."
Another point, does a physical bodily resurrection have to have happened for there to be truth to this story?
The answer, interestingly enough, is no.
When we die and our soul leaves our body, it does not wait for some Final Judgement Day.
Usually, it goes directly to God for either Heaven (storage, basically. think of it as a cosmic hard drive where all of the people who have chosen to love their fellow humans go to be "saved" for eternity.) or they go directly to Hell, which is usually just a mind wipe and done.
Jesus, being the Son of God and the first one "saved," was allowed to return to Earth to spread the news of his resurrection to those who would accept him, to give them peace and hope that ALL the world might some day love Jesus, and by extension God, and we can all be "saved and go to heaven."
I hope this doesn't sound too crazy. The truth often does.
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
reply to post by Greatest I am
Adam doesn't mean society. In Hebrew Adam means "man".
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by Greatest I am
If Jesus is at the highest level with God and it is impossible for a soul to be at that level, this indicates that Jesus somehow had two consciousnesses, one divine and one human in the same body on earth and that they would separate upon reaching heaven. That or Jesus had no soul.
A "soul" is your person.
Jesus is always the same person, whether it is his preincarnate self with God at the beginning, or as a human born to a woman, or is in his glorified state in Heaven as the Christ.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by Lazarus Short
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son.
Goodbye, immortal soul...
Ezekiel 18:20
So it is not in a cosmological sense, but in a terrestrial, human justice system sense.
edit on 16-3-2013 by jmdewey60 because: (no reason given)
Then I am sure that you would like to quote one of those verses.
. . . as scriptures are clear that a soul can die.
No, it doesn't.
. . . Jesus sinned like we all do says scripture.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by Greatest I am
Then I am sure that you would like to quote one of those verses.
. . . as scriptures are clear that a soul can die.
I already blew apart the argument based on the verse I knew about that says anything like that.edit on 16-3-2013 by jmdewey60 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by Greatest I am
No, it doesn't.
. . . Jesus sinned like we all do says scripture.
It says he learned and was perfected through suffering.
Jesus suffered for telling the truth.
He may have looked like he had sinned to the ones who killed him, because they were enforcing man-made laws.edit on 16-3-2013 by jmdewey60 because: (no reason given)