Jesus didn't teach resurrection of the dead?

Question

I just previously asked about immortality and resurrection. Poor responses without knowledge, so let's try this. John 5:28,29 Jesus says Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in their memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection od judgment. So I'll ask again, what is the purpose of Jesus teaching a resurrection back to life if we have an immortal soul that survives death.

Answer 1

We don't have an immortal soul that survives death. The Bible teaches that we are souls, not that we have souls. The spirits that some people choose to contact are not who or what they think. I believe that's why The Bible forbids such practices.

Answer 2

Most people exposed to religious teachings are under the impression that they are already eternal. If Christian they reason it is just a question of living eternally in heaven or hell. If not Christan they reason that man is spirit and spirit is God and therefore eternal.

God created man in His own image to live forever. Yet even before the fall man had not partaken of the Tree of Life. Further God said the soul that sins shall die. Adam sinned our souls now die and are not immortal.

Given this situation, Christ died that we might have eternal life. Unless we obtain the Holy Spirit, which is the eternal life of God in Christ Jesus, we cannot live forever in heaven or hell.

One Resurrection is to eternal life the other to judgment and eternal death. Eternal life is a gift of God. With Christ it is, at worst, sleep once and rise forever. Without the spirit of Christ it is die twice, once before judgment and once after.

Hell was prepared for the devil and His angels and not for man.

Christ died that we might have eternal life as a gift from God. It is ours by faith from a God who is not willing that any should perish but have everlasting life. (Perish means perish, not living in hell instead of heaven). False teachers make a play with the words "second death"

Good question. More and more are blind to what the Word of God says. May we find mercy in the dark age upon us.

Answer 3

You were talking about two different things in your last question. Jesus resurecring Lazarus, and the second comming, when all the dead will rise for judgement day.

He teaches us about the ressurection and our soul because if we do not accept him as our savior we do not have an immortal soul. We have to become Christian and accept Christ into our heart and out lives, confess our sins to Him, and ask forgiveness before we have immortal souls.

Answer 4

Because some people may not want a ressurection unto death, they may prefer a ressurection unto life. The purpose of Jesus' teaching He said, John 5:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life."

Answer 5

the Bible teaches us that there are 2 ressurecctions also 2 deaths of sorts ,there is the physical death of the body yes that is obvious but I have been taught that on the final judgement day God will make a decision for each immortal soul and those He finds worthy will be kept with Him, those not worthy will be cast into the lake of fire not to die but to burn for eternity, kind of mind boggling isnt it?

Answer 6

You ( we all) do have an immortal soul that lives beyond death, without this body.
The question is ... where will each eternity be spent?
We are born into a rebellious race, blinded by our selfish ways and unable to overcome the death we deserve because we cannnot accomplish it on our own.
God himself had to give his life in our place and take our punishment, our death.
We have free will and we choose... our fate is eternal separation from God - torment - of we choose not to come to him believing in faith. If we choose to follow Jesus and receive his grace and love we will spend eternity with him in a place so wonderful we cannot imagine it.
That is our human condition. He taught resuurection because life after this one is true, and he wants us to spend it with him in his glory - without pain, or sorrow, or brokenness.
A person cannot deny the Lord and still live successfully. Mankind was created to acknowledge God and share a relationship with Him. When someone chooses to ignore the truth of His existence or His sovereignty, he or she begins a downward slide. It’s a choice which ends with a hardened heart and eternal separation from a loving Father.

God gives everyone the capacity to understand Him and the free will to choose whether to pursue that knowledge. The truth of His existence is revealed in nature and written into every person’s conscience. However, many people ignore reality because it interferes with their preferred lifestyle. Instead, they chase false philosophies, which are usually mixed with just enough truth to make them believable to the inexperienced.

Any “truth” crafted by man is foolishness. A mind that has rejected the fact of a sovereign Lord cannot see its error. It has slipped from intelligence—an inherent knowledge of God — to willful ignorance. In this state, even when all evidence points to the truth, a person can still convince him- or herself that the opposite is right.

All the denial and atheistic arguments in the world will not change what is real. Jehovah is God. Jesus Christ is His Son. God created you to love, obey, and honor Him. If you resist the truth, you choose a life of darkness and willful ignorance. The choice is yours to make.

God invites you to see if He is better than all that the world has to offer. Psalm 34:8 challenges us to “taste and see that the Lord is good.” Will you taste and see?

Answer 7

We must first lose our lifes to God before we can even consider having an "immortal soul".

Ephesians 4

20You, however, did not come to know Christ that way. 21Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

3In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.[a]"

4"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!"

John 3

5Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[b] gives birth to spirit. 7You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You[c] must be born again.' 8The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."


Matthew 6

24"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

Romans 6

10The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

11In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Jesus realted that all man,saved and unsaved, will be literally and physically resurrected from the dead. However, only the saved experieance a spiritual, as well as a physical resurrection unto eternal life. The unsaved will be resurrected unto judgment and eternal punishment through seperation from God.


we can either choose to be with God and in the light, or we choose to follow the enemy and be cast away from God's glory in to the darkness.

Answer 8

No one was writing down what jesus said as he said it, lets not forget that the new testament was written long after that joker was dead.
i would attrubute the apperant contradiction in the passage to be the result of the early christian chuch having diffrent ideas about the afterlife....who cares they were all just guessing anyway

Answer 9

John 25:46 states "Then they (the unrighteous)will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
Mark 9:48 states "...It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where "their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched."

Answer 10

Because miracles like that were reserved for Jesus. Why do you think we can't use powers like super-strength and x-ray vision? We don't need these kinds of powers, I think free will is good enough.