The Divine Conspiracy: Chapter 3 What Jesus Knew: Our God-bathed World (pp. 84-88)
on life and death
"Jesus made a special point of saying that those who rely on him and have received the kind of life that flows in him and in God will never experience death. Such persons, he said, will never see death, never taste death. On another occasion he says simply that 'everyone living and believing in me shall never die.' (John 11:26)"
"So as we think of our life and make plans for it, we should not be anticipating going through some terrible event called 'death,'to be avoided at all costs even though it can't be avoided. That is the usual attitude for human beings, no doubt. But, immersed in Christ in action, we may be sure that our life- yes, that familiar one we are each so well acquainted with- will never stop. We should be anticipating what we will be doing three hundred or a thousand or ten thousand years from now in this marvelous universe."
"Could this be the actual truth about our case? Jesus' word to us would certainly be, 'Believe it!'. We are never-ceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in the full world of God."
"Jesus made a special point of saying that those who rely on him and have received the kind of life that flows in him and in God will never experience death. Such persons, he said, will never see death, never taste death. On another occasion he says simply that 'everyone living and believing in me shall never die.' (John 11:26)"
"So as we think of our life and make plans for it, we should not be anticipating going through some terrible event called 'death,'to be avoided at all costs even though it can't be avoided. That is the usual attitude for human beings, no doubt. But, immersed in Christ in action, we may be sure that our life- yes, that familiar one we are each so well acquainted with- will never stop. We should be anticipating what we will be doing three hundred or a thousand or ten thousand years from now in this marvelous universe."
"Could this be the actual truth about our case? Jesus' word to us would certainly be, 'Believe it!'. We are never-ceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in the full world of God."
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