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IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL Gen 15:15 & 25:8 with Gen 11:32 & 25:9-10 (Since Abraham was not buried with his fathers or his people it must have been his soul that went to his “fathers in peace” and that “was gathered to his people”), 1 Sam 28:11-20, Isaiah 14:9-10 (dead are agitated and speaking), Wisdom 9:15-16, Mt 10:28, Mt 22:29-32 (n.b. while there is a physical resurrection at the end of time, there is also a spiritual resurrection which is the departing of the soul to purgatory or heaven at the point of physical death - see, e.g. Scott Hahn’s 11 tape series “the End - The Book Of Revelation” ; that Jesus is talkin about the spiritual resurrection is indicated by Jesus’ use of the present tense (in contrast to the Sadducees’ use of the future tense) here as well as in Mk 12:25-27 & Luke 20:34-38, implying that these things - marrying not, being like the angels and therefore not dying - were going on at that moment; the spiritual resurrection is the first resurrection of Rev 20:4-6 - the thousand years (in ancient Jewish numeral symbolism a thousand years mean a long, indefinite period of time) having begun with Christ’s passion), Luke 16:19-31, Luke 23:43 with 23:46, Acts 2:31, Acts 7:59-60, 2 Cor 5:6-10 (even when “home with the Lord” which is to “be away from the body” Paul and others “aim to please him - therefore their souls will still be active when their bodies are dead; if “at home in the body” is only symbolical and means only “to live in a materialistic world” then a clear and irreconcilable contradiction exists between verses 6 & 9), Philippians 1:23-24, 1 Peter 3:18-20, 4:5-6, 2 Peter 1:13-14 Hebrews 12:1 follows Hebrews 11 so the the cloud of witnesses refers to those dead heroes mentioned in Hebrews 11 Rev 5:8 (dead men - the 24 elders - offer up our prayers), Rev 6:9-11 (souls of the slain speak - verse 11 indicates that some of their fellow servants and brethren have not yet died), Rev 7:9-17 (dead cry out in a loud voice and serve God day and night - the surrounding text (e.g chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) make it clear that there are still humans, good and wicked upon the earth; if this were a passage describing the adulation of God by the faithful after the final judgement it would have been placed in chapters 21-22 and not chapter 7) cf also Mt 12:40 (“the heart of the earth” cannot be Jesus’tomb) & John 5:25 (note the phrase “and now is” - therefore Jesus is about to preach to the dead; the “hour” in John’s Gospel refers to Jesus’ suffering and death through to his resurrection) Creatures now sharing God’s immortality :- Gen 5:24 with Heb 11:5, 2 Kings 2:1-13,Mt 17:3, Mt 27:52-53, Luke 20:35-36 (angels) (n.b. Luke 20:35 seems to allude to a period after death and before the resurrection) (These verses demonstrate that 1 Tim 6:16 cannot mean that God does not now share his immortality - which he alone possesses, with his creatures) |