when lazurus was resurrected why diddnt he thank Jesus for saving him from hellfire, or ask Jesus, why did you do this i was in heaven. If Jesus is God then how did God die. God is immortal. And if Jesus is God and diddnt die, then how was there a sacraficial death?And shed blood? If my soul is imortal and i go straight to heaven, why do i need to be resurrected. why would i ever want to come back to earth from heaven? If Jesus is God and did die, then who held the universe together and ruled it while he was dead?
2007-01-30 18:45:23 · 13 answers · asked by Thomas L 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
MAN YOU CANT BE SERIOUS ABOUT THOSE QUESTIONS ARE YOU???
2007-01-30 18:52:00 · answer #1 · answered by THE WAR WRENCH 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Q:) If Jesus is God then how did God die. God is immortal.
A:) Jesus possesses a divine nature (his uncreated godly "essence") a human soul, and a human body.
Christ's divine humanity was sacrificed for our sins. When his humanity died, his propitiatory mission of personal sacrifice was fully completed.
There was never any requirement, or any necessity that his immortal, godly essence would ever cease to exist, although his divinity certainly experienced the physical effects of his passion and human death.
When he died on the cross, his human body died, and his human soul and his divine essence were separated from that body in death, only to be eternally reunited in the resurrection, three days later.
Q:) If my soul is immortal and i go straight to heaven, why do i need to be resurrected. why would i ever want to come back to earth from heaven?
A:) God created man as a composite being, made of both body and immortal soul. This sets him apart from every other creature, and is accompanied by a high and distinctive God-given dignity that can only be realized by attaining the complete destiny God had in mind when he created us.
Part of that destiny is to someday "subdue" the earth.
This won't be able to be fully accomplished until Christ makes it possible, when he comes again, and inaugurates the next age.
Q:) If Jesus is God and did die, then who held the universe together and ruled it while he was dead?
A:) In his eternal and immortal divinity, while his dead human body remained in the tomb. he did, along with God the Father, and the Holy Spirit.
2007-01-31 05:49:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lazarus didn't go to heaven. The only time Jesus described the afterlife, it was identical to the Greek Hades, complete with the chasm separating the 'good' from the 'bad.' I can't find anything in Scripture to support the idea that the dead go to 'heaven' (a word meaning 'sky').
Jesus was God. He was man. He was physically mortal. He was spiritually immortal. His death was not sacrificial (other than the fact that he gave it up).
2007-01-31 02:55:54 · answer #3 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The soul is not eternal. Ez.18:4, 20 says: "The soul that is sinning, it itself will die. Ps. 146:4 says: "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish."
If the soul were immortal, as the churches say, the resurrection would be meaningless.
At Ps. 90:2, it says that God is immortal. If Jesus were God, he could not have come to earth to die for our sins? Jesus is not God. While he lay dead in the grave for 3 days, his Father, the only true God, remained in control of the universe. (John 17:3) After those 3 days, God raised his Son from the grave. (Gal. 1:1)
2007-01-31 02:52:47 · answer #4 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well to start with the Soul ( a spark of the Creator thrown off of its body before the creation of the Physical universe) is not eternal completely as the Creator can call back these sparks into its own body again. Then they would be eternal as part of the body of the Creator again.
When your physical body dies your soul goes to what ever idea of a heaven or hell that it has come to believe in. Until it is ready for the truth of what lies beyond.
God as the creator seems to be eternal .But may have its own cycle of living and dying and resurrecting itself over a long period of time as we count it.
2007-01-31 03:10:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you sleep, what keeps your heart beating? Your brain and the autonomic functions that it processes.
When you are saddened by loss, why do you cry? Your brain is reacting to what? Depression?Caused by what? It wasn't YOU; yet part of you has responded. Your spirit.
This is the part of you that lives forever, and when you die is in the 'bosom' of God, until Judgement day.
The Bible says that the mortal will put on immortality, and that I will receive a glorious new body to go with my immortal spirit.
The old flesh can't join with the new, because it is sinful and corrupt- This is what Jesus died for! So that my immortal body and spirit could be with Him forever!
Sounds to me like you gave up going to church after Sunday School - you could do with some serious study!
2007-01-31 03:06:53 · answer #6 · answered by watcherd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality
So when this corruptible shall have put on corruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory.-1 Corinthians 15:51-55
We must all die, and enter the grave. The hope in our Lord is the resurrection into incorruptibility and immortality.
Jesus tasted of death and hell so we would not have to.
2007-01-31 03:07:54 · answer #7 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad news neither happen in reality don't live a fools paradise when your time on earth is limited .the crock of baloney won't give you your life back in the end so live while you can .
the dead are just that dead and gone and not even voodoo magic can bring em back as zombies either. So enjoy your life and don't worry about the neurosis of the religious .you have the moral start and the rational mind to see beyond superstition.
2007-01-31 03:08:09 · answer #8 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay well Christians believe that ALL will be resurected inorder for Jesus to judge. Whether or not we go straight to heaven when we die is a dibatable subject!. Jesus and God are two seperate persons but still fully God. Crazy I know but true. Thats how God could die but still be 'alive'
2007-01-31 02:56:21 · answer #9 · answered by bcooper_au 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
heaven is not compulsory so dont worry if u dont wanna go theres always an optin thats what i like ablout God free will and Jesus is Gods son when he died God the father was in control and seein u just want to discredit why bother if u dont beleive relax if theres no God to u why do u ask about him ehh he should b a non entity
2007-01-31 03:05:15 · answer #10 · answered by ladyluck 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Peace!
It was the humanity of Jesus that died on the cross not his divinity. God is spirit; spirits don't die. They are immortal.
2007-01-31 03:02:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋