Originally posted by Rajk999
What does 'genuine question' have to do with it. You are going after the argument that man has an eternal soul. That is not in the Bible.
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By "genuine question" I mean that while I am asking it, I too am contemplating how I would answer it myself. We're dealing with a profound subject. As I ask him I am contemplating the right answer myself.
Rather than ask questions designed to trap posters, you should come out and state your case in clear simple concise language.
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That is your opinion. That we are discussing in order to see if truth can be arrived at is not necessarily setting up a "trap".
Divegeester, if he wants to, can reply for himself.
Here is how.
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I will take this as your reply and not Divegeester's by proxy.
You think the Bible says that mans soul is eternal. I say it does not.
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What I think is that God
"ALONE has immortality" as Scripture teaches in
First Timothy 6:16.
So a ancient Greek style philosophy of the innate immortality of the soul I do not ascribe as a teaching of the Bible. Obviously angels live everlastingly and saved humans do also.
So it is derived from the One who
ALONE possesses the attribute of immortality - God.
Annhilationists and Universalists often first establish a strawman argument that the Bible does not teach ancient Greek philosophy of the innate immortality of the human soul, which of course is true.
The soul that sinneth it shall die.
Jesus said that God can destroy souls in hell.
The Bible teaches that evildoers will be destroyed [not tormented].
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Now in
Revelation 20 it speaks of TWO resurrections. These two resurrections are separated by 1,000 years. It says that the REST of the dead were not raised until the thousand years were up.
" The rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection." (Rev. 20:5)
Now one thousands years after this first resurrection another resurrection causes all those dead to appear before the Great White Throne for eternal judgment:
"And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened; and another scroll was opened which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by the things which were written in the scrolls, according to their works. (v.12)
And if anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire." (v.15)
Is this what you are teaching me:
1.) The dead during the thousand years who were not resurrected in the first resurrection - are then non-existent altogether.
2.) After the thousand years they are made to exist again for just long enough to be judged.
3.) Those not having their names in the book of life are made to again be non-existent altogether.
So you are teaching concerning the unsaved -
Physical life ---> non-existence ----> physical life by resurrection ----> non-existence again.
Is that your interpretation of
Revelation 20 ?
Can you show where the Bible says souls are eternal?
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No. And I do not need to.
For I do not intend to claim that ancient Greek philosophy was precisely taught in the Bible.