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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
How can you tell people that "once you are dead, it is over" without teaching about what happens when you die? You just destroyed your entire argument.
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"It's over", to me, referenced a composite picture composed of numerous biblical images. You have the idea of the door shut for the wedding feast, with some unable to enter. As I said before, a miss is as good as a mile. It's over.
You had the image of the ark. Inside is safe. Outside, it's over. Also the image of Sodom and Gomorrah. Every thing is hunky-dory until one day it starts raining fire. Game over.
Esau, though he wept with many tears, was not able to reclaim the birthright. It was gone -- it had passed through his hands and wasn't coming back. The rebellious angels, kept in chains, waiting for the judgment of the last day. The rich man, unable to get a drop of water from Lazarus, who was separated by an unbridgeable chasm.
There are arguably no "details" here, just a general, but consistent and clear theme. God is patient, but once God says it's over, it's over.