The problem is your understanding of death. Death to you seems to still mean life. I question that.
I believe death is dead and life is alive.
as to for ever and ever there are many instances where the same term is used to describe a burning till its all burned up etc. Your google search is inaccurate and some what wanting. read posts that have shown the term forever being used in a setting where there is an end.
I believe death is dead and life is alive.
as to for ever and ever there are many instances where the same term is used to describe a burning till its all burned up etc. Your google search is inaccurate and some what wanting. read posts that have shown the term forever being used in a setting where there is an end.
The definition of death is not extinction. Bible definition of death is separation from the Lord.
Biblical Definition of Death as separation
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[TD="width: 21%"]Neo-Sadduceeism
Refuted!!!
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[TD="width: 79%"]Death is never defined by lexicographers as extinction, annihilation, non-existence or unconsciousness
Death in the Bible is always pictured as a separation between two things.
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[TD="width: 79%"]Death as "non-existence" is a member of "Domino Theology"
(Refute one element & refute the whole system!)
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[TD="width: 21%"]The question of death being anextinction was considered andrejected by virtually all early church fathers, as this quote from 177 AD proves:
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[TD="width: 79%"]"Hereafter, that the Judgment Passed Upon Him May Be Just. For either death is the entire extinction of life, the soul being dissolved and corrupted along with the body, or the soul remains by itself, incapable of dissolution, of dispersion, of corruption, whilst the body is corrupted and dissolved, retaining no longer any remembrance of past actions, nor sense of what it experienced in connection with the soul. (Athenagoras, Chapter 20: Man Must Be Possessed Both of a Body and Soul)
READ: More early Christians define death as a separation!
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Death means separation between two things:
Introductory Summary:
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[TD="width: 27%"]Physical death
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[TD="width: 27%"]Eccl 12:7
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[TD="width: 18%"]body
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[TD="width: 16%"]soul
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[TD="width: 27%"]spiritual death
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[TD="width: 27%"]Isa 59:1-2
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[TD="width: 18%"]man
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[TD="width: 27%"]second death
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[TD="width: 27%"]Rev 21:8; 22:14-15
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[TD="width: 18%"]man
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[TD="width: 27%"]dead to sin
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[TD="width: 27%"]Rom 6:2,11; Heb 7:26
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[TD="width: 18%"]Christians
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[TD="width: 27%"]dead to law
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[TD="width: 27%"]Rom 7:4
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[TD="width: 18%"]Christians
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[TD="width: 16%"]law
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[TD="width: 27%"]marriage dissolved by death
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[TD="width: 27%"]1 Cor 7:39
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[TD="width: 18%"]man
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