Posted by Lou Pilder on December 8, 2007, at 20:19:57
In reply to Gospel, Revelation, Lake of Fire » Lou Pilder, posted by Sigismund on December 8, 2007, at 13:47:36
> Lou, I'm assuming that the John of Revelations is the same John who wrote the Gospel, and my irritation with him is something I will gladly control (though I draw the line at 'the wrathful Lamb'), should you be able to tell me anything about him, or the Lake of Fire, forgiveness and whatever else, .
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> While you're at it, I wonder if you could tell me about Jewish belief relating to.....
> the afterlife (if any)
> the continuation or not of the soul after death
> and heaven and hell?Sigismund,
You asked above about many aspects of what has been revealed to me as a Jew. The Jews sacred scriptures have Psalms that were written mainly by King David, about half of them, and going back to Moses in 1400 BCE up to around 500 BCE. One Psalm of David writes;
[...God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave...] (49)
Psalm 23 writes,[...And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever...].
David in the Psalms speaks to life after death and a resurrection from the grave. Later Danial wrote about two resurrections. Not with a time frame, but just that there will be them.[...and many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake...]. (ch.12)
John wrote also about Danial's statement and myself being a Jew, I can understand what his writings were about as them being written by a Jew keeping in mind that the Jews were most of the apostles and early adherants to John's writings and that Jesus of Nazareth was a Rabbi. Going further, when His desciples urged Him to heal a women's daughter that was said to be demon posessed, He said,"I was not sent except the lost sheep of the house of Isreal." One of the aspects of the issue here of suicde is about [...the lost sheep...].
Lou
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