80sU2isBest
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Harry Vest said:Just one question though...
What about the repentant thief next to Jesus on the cross?
When Jesus was speaking to him didn't he say something like "today I shall be with you in paradise" . How does that jive with the "sleep" theory...or are there two different deaths???
That's what I was thinking about, also.
Also, Christ said that if any man come to him, that man will never die. In that case, Christ is obviously talking about the spirit, because we know that the flesh will die. So, Christ is identifying a person as the spirit. That spirit never dies, so the person doesn't either.
Also, the New Testament teaches that eternal life isn't soomething that we will get someday in the future. It is something that we receive the moment we are born again. So, do we receive eternal life when we are born again, then lose it when our body dies physically, then receive it again at the rapture?