[Vision2020] Life after death?

[Ralph Nielsen]

Sorry, Doug. Don't forget that "those who go down to Sheol do not  
come up" (Job 7:9). And you don't have a "living spirit" that is  
separate from your body. So you want to reside in heaven with your  
creator? Have you forgotten what he said soon after the creation?

Then the LORD God said, "See, the man has become like one of us,  
knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take  
also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" (Genesis 3:22).

So the LORD God drove the man out of the garden of Eden and placed  
the cherubim with a flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of  
life (vv. 23-24).

So just get this into your little head, Doug. God doesn't want you or  
anybody else to live forever with him in heaven. When you die you  
will return to the dust from which you were made, your body together  
with the operating system you like to call a "living spirit." And the  
rest of God's creation will continue on its merry way without you.  
Your dust, of course, will be recycled, but eventually you will be  
forgotten, just as the Bible says. Read Ecclesiastes 9:1-12. When did  
you stop believing it.

Ralph


On Feb 26, 2007, at 4:27 PM, heirdoug at netscape.net wrote:

> Yes Ralph if you say so.
>
> But my hope is still in the resurrection of that dead body to be  
> rejoined with my living spirit that would be residing in the  
> presence of the Creator of the Universe, the Savior you mentioned  
> from Isaiah 43:11.
>
> So I will ask my question once again... When did you stop believing?
>
> Doug !
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nielsen at uidaho.edu
>
> You should be ashamed, Doug. You rip the Hebrew psalm completely  
> out of its context and write the silly drivel below. You are  
> certainly dodging the issue, aren't you?
>
> As for saviors, this was written hundreds of years before Xianity  
> was invented.
>
> "I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior" (Isaiah 43:11).
>
> But however much you twist the Hebrew scriptures to make them say  
> what they do not say, you are still headed for Sheol when you die.
>
> Ralph
>