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Originally Posted by Timotheist
Not gonna argue with you on this point of view, as I think there is enough wiggle room to allow our differences in opinion.
Nonetheless, I will try weakly to counter your point, using Timotheist logic:
1) Spirit is life. In fact spirit is God Himself dispensed into us for our animation (Gen 1:26). (See what I did there?) Spirit, being of God Himself, is eternal.
2) Jesus did not warn us to fear Him who can destroy the soul and spirit in Gehenna, because spirit cannot be killed.
3) When we die, our spirit "returns to Him who gave it". See the stoning of Stephen for one of many examples of this concept.
4) Angels are "spirits". Ergo, my reasoning suggests, they have eternal life and cannot be killed. Unless God can somehow remove His Spirit from a spirit, the angels can no sooner be killed than God can kill Himself.
When we are resurrected unto eternal life, we will be "like the angels", and like them, we will have eternal life. Not as "souls" but as "spirits", being in God's image and likeness.
(I shudder to think of what might happen if we choose to rebel after our resurrection... because "it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”)
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We're not arguing. We're having a discussion, hopefully sharpening one another as the Spirit leads in our midst.
Point#1: Yes, God is eternal.
God can undo what he does or did otherwise God can make a rock bigger than he can pick up. NOT!
Point #2: says He can destroy soul and spirit then says spirit cannot be killed?
Point#3
Stephen was a saint.
Demons were cast down, cast into pigs and ultimately will be cast into the LOF.
Scripture doesn't teach that God needs to recycle spirit.
He saves them or destroys them. Imho...
Point #4: Refer to point 3 rebuttal.
Peace like a river my dear brother Timotheist!
