Where was Jesus for the three days between his death and resurrection?

Well.....I guess it DID NOT help clear the fog then. Oh well.

See post #80. I think that just about wraps up this bogus annihilationism business one and for all.

https://christianchat.com/threads/w...is-death-and-resurrection.210204/post-5045781

Let me know when you believe what Scripture plainly says: God alone is immortal.

Until then you unwittingly repeat the lie of Satan at the heart of the fall of man and corruption
of all creation, while rejecting plain word meanings, and impugning the character of God.


John 3:16

What we are looking for is a Biblically relevant response that proves your assertions. Still waiting.
As of now, my case has won the day. I think everyone can agree upon that.

Why is the world would Mother Theresa suffer punishment?

As I said the KJV could use some improvements. Most people are not aware that in the 19th century the Church of England had a plan to make only necessary improvements or revisions to the Authorized Version. But that plan was hijacked by Westcott & Hort and their co-conspirators who changed the Greek Text as well as the Bible. The Revised Version from 1881 was a disgrace and Dean Burgon wrote about it extensively. That version now gathers dust.

There are some Christians who hold to the KJV but do not acknowledge that it could use some improvements. But the King James 2000 Bible (available on Bible Hub) has done a good job in bringing this tried and true translation up to date. Here is Luke 16:23 from that version: And in hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and seeing Abraham far off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Do some research on things she has said. Not sounding good if you ask me.

Spending her life taking care of the poor. Nothing wrong with that at all.

Works of men don't redeem bro.

lol... Not quite, O overconfident one.

Catholicism is a works-based religion, not to mention the idolatry and horrors they have inflicted on true believers throughout history.

That's right. People will suffer in the lake of fire according to their ungodly works, but they will all eventually be destroyed. Even the devil himself will eventually burn up and be no more (Eze 28:18-19).

That is ABSOLUTELY false. Even our criminal justice system tells you that.

They will not escape judgment.

The punishment will be everlasting, the punishING will not.

Yep. Don't leave out verse 14.

Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death

They will die the second death and be gone.

The first death was not annihilation, neither will the second death be annihilation.

It's wrong if one is trying to earn their way to heaven.

congratulations on having exactly the same worldview as the atheist.

the Bible describes us as bipartite beings having a physical body and a non-physical soul/spirit. it describes the earthly body as dying "the first death" and the soul/spirit surviving this physical expiration. it describes that physical death as the separation of the soul/spirit non-physical component of our being from the physical component of our being.

The entirety of our faith rests on our personhood surviving physical death. the view you expressed, annihilation upon physical expiration, is antithetical to our faith. it is exactly the view of the atheist who believes that physical life is the only life that exists.

Just as surely as physical death is not the only death, physical life is not the only life, and equally as sure, existence is not the same as life or death.
We exist because God upholds us. because He remembers us. in Him is our being, derived of Him and given by Him. when omniscient God forgets you, perhaps you will cease to exist - but that is not the gospel: "to be absent from the body is to be present with Christ"

So, what we sometimes see in Scripture is that God will speak of His Spirit and also of His “spirit”, and “the spirit of the Lord” and “the Spirit of the Lord” or “the spirit of God” and also “the Spirit of God” and “My spirit” as well.

See examples of the small “s” in the word “spirit” in the King James Bible in Genesis 6:3; Exodus 31:3; 35:31; Numbers 24:2, Isaiah 11:2; 40:7; 42:1; 44:3 and 59:21.

These are not errors at all, but are verses that describe the working, activity, influence, animating principle, essential quality, disposition, energy or the driving force of God behind various actions He carries out rather than to the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Holy Ghost.

Again, no improvements needed, just more faith in the words of God.

1 Cor 15:
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

If there is no future rapture or resurrection, all those who have died, including believers, are gone.

Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die...

Destroyed ≠ Non Exist

Perish ≠ Non Exist

Death ≠ Non Exist

Second Death ≠ Annihilate

There is no chance at all this annihilation doctrine is correct.

In the New Testament, the word “dead” (Gk., nekros) means “lifeless, useless, or separated.”
Never, ever does it mean “nonexistent”

It does no such thing.

Therein lies the rub. Most Christians do not know what death is.

My faith rests in the promised return of Jesus Christ, when dead Christians will be raised from the dead, and living Christians changed (1 Cor 15:51ff; 1 Thes 4:13-18).

The atheist does not believe in God or the power of Christ's resurrection. The atheist has no hope.

Completely out of context to the larger point of Paul's thesis.