It just strikes me as very odd that we have to establish that death actually exists because it does seem you are arguing against the fact that we do die once. I am at work but I am on my brunch break now after having been up since just before 7 and only had coffee so far... But that is normal for me... anyway... God commanded Adam not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or he would die and death was the consequence of his disobedience for all and it is the second death Christians need not fear and do in fact escape from by grace through faith and the shed righteous blood of Jesus Christ. Psalm 116 verse 15 says precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants.
“It just strikes me as very odd that we have to establish that death actually exists because it does seem you are arguing against the fact that we do die once.”
no sister I understand death exists and haven’t claimed otherwise . I’ve just noted that Enoch didn’t die and walked with God by faith and he lived way back in the beginning generations of mankind.
“
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was
not found, because God had translated him: for
before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.”
Hebrews 11:5 KJV
and then I noted that Jesus in the gospel offers the same thing to believers
This argument is not that death doesn’t exist , nor against the truth that
all “men are appointed once to die “ and after this the judgement “ that’s not my argument I’m saying
faith tells a story of Jesus our lord and savior and what he’s done for us.
This is why men die
“Wherefore, as
by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so
death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
Romans 5:12 KJV
If we’ve read the Bible we know it tells us that Enoch didn’t see death note in those generations everyone else it says “ Adam lives 965 urs and
then he died “
When it comes to Enoch it just says “ he was not because God took him “ and he lived a short life on earth comparative to Adam and his son even methuselah even older than Adam . But Enoch is the one who it never said “ all the days of Enoch were and then he died “ the New Testament shows us that Enoch didn’t die he was translated by faith and never saw death .
Jesus said this sister correct ?
“Verily, verily, I say unto you,
If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.”
John 8:51
And this is why he can say and deliver that because
“But
we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels
for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour;
that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.”
Hebrews 2:9 KJV
“Know ye not, that
so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
…knowing this, that
our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now
if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:”
Romans 6:3-4, 6-8 KJV
“For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that
if one died for all, then were all dead: and that
he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Wherefore henceforth
know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Therefore
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
2 Corinthians 5:14-17
“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? And when he thus had spoken
, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.”
John 11:25-26, 43-44 KJV
If he can raise the dead why can’t he promise believers will never see death or enter into condemnation ?
“For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so
the Son quickeneth whom he will. For as the Father hath life in himself;
so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;”
John 5:21, 26 KJV
theres doctrine about one death by faith in Christ
