:icon_jokercolor: There is this Article on the Internet
type it in on Yahoo Search Engine, called Hybrid-Universalism Refuted
Bible.ca the Interactive Bible, and other articles on that Site that go against UR :dunno2:
Any Views on this :banana:
Ha! the good old Matt 25:46 argument :winkgrin:
Few views.
http://home.online.nl/spamfree/matthew%2025_46.htm
http://home.online.nl/spamfree/matthew%2025_46_2.htm
http://home.online.nl/spamfree/matthew%2025_31-46_3.htm
http://home.online.nl/spamfree/sheep_and_goats.htm
http://home.online.nl/spamfree/sheep_and_goats.htm
My personal view is even simpler but doesn't conflict with the above.
The people in Matthew 25:46 do not recieve eternal life.
------correction for the sinners---|
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This life=========Death-| |=====groups merge ===>Unending life for all. |
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------life for the saints----------|
Everlasting life starts when Father becomes all-in-all.
My understanding is, there is no such things as everlasting life for us humans. Only God is, and has been everlasting.
Our immortal life will not end but it will have a beginning. Everlasting has no beginning or end.
CHB
Quote from: CHB on October 20, 2012, 01:29:32 AM
Everlasting has no beginning or end.
imo that's eternal.
There is a difference:
Everlasting= no beginning, no end
Eternal= beginning but no end.
"God who ALONE is immortal..." would indicate only God
but "this mortal shall put on immortality..." would indicate God AND us
"God being the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last..." would indicate God will be last alive but since we are alive in him then we will also be the last. We were never the first.
Quote from: ded2daworld on October 20, 2012, 04:53:00 PM
There is a difference:
Everlasting= no beginning, no end
Eternal= beginning but no end.
Not according to the Oxford dictionary.
Eternal
1. a.A.1.a Infinite in
past and future duration; without beginning or end; that always has existed and always will exist: esp. of the Divine Being.
Everlasting
1. a.A.1.a Lasting for ever; infinite in
future duration; endless;
That said they have equal duration. Infinite.
That's the problem WW... I was using 1st Ded2daworld Dictionary :laughing7:
I think dictionary writers aren't up on theological doctrine. It may just be semantics
Besides, I haven't been wrong about something for almost 12 minutes. :doh:
In that Article
What about other Articles on the Website :Peace2:
Quote from: WhiteWings on October 20, 2012, 05:51:49 PM
Quote from: ded2daworld on October 20, 2012, 04:53:00 PM
There is a difference:
Everlasting= no beginning, no end
Eternal= beginning but no end.
Not according to the Oxford dictionary.
Eternal
1. a.A.1.a Infinite in past and future duration; without beginning or end; that always has existed and always will exist: esp. of the Divine Being.
Everlasting
1. a.A.1.a Lasting for ever; infinite in future duration; endless;
That said they have equal duration. Infinite.
Not exactly true:
eternal has infinite past + infinite future = infinity + infinity = 2x infinity
everlasting has infinite future = infinity = 1x infinity
Of course you can make the argument that 2x infinity = infinity, but the math is not that easy... :laughing7:
Quote from: legoman on December 03, 2012, 08:08:23 PM
Quote from: WhiteWings on October 20, 2012, 05:51:49 PM
Quote from: ded2daworld on October 20, 2012, 04:53:00 PM
There is a difference:
Everlasting= no beginning, no end
Eternal= beginning but no end.
Not according to the Oxford dictionary.
Eternal
1. a.A.1.a Infinite in past and future duration; without beginning or end; that always has existed and always will exist: esp. of the Divine Being.
Everlasting
1. a.A.1.a Lasting for ever; infinite in future duration; endless;
That said they have equal duration. Infinite.
Not exactly true:
eternal has infinite past + infinite future = infinity + infinity = 2x infinity
everlasting has infinite future = infinity = 1x infinity
Of course you can make the argument that 2x infinity = infinity, but the math is not that easy... :laughing7:
of course if you search the usages in the scriptures there is no consistency in the translation of the two. You will find eternal and everlasting interchangeably used along with forever to translate the same Greek word in different verses- and sometimes even within the same verse.
And these shall go away into everlasting
G166 punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
G166 (Mat 25:46)
The point is moot therefore, because the word olam (Hebrew)was translated aion(Greek). Olam was a word used for a variety of indefinite conditions of time and world, meaning "unkown" or "unknowable" or "other-wordly". That is why aion gets translated age in someplaces;world in others;forever,eternal,everlasting in others- the actual meaning cannot be defined without context.
When connected through context to God it means transcending time forward and backwards. When used with the future lives of the redeemed it means forward everlasting. When used of those who go into the lake of fire it means until they have "paid the last penny" i.e., bowed the knee and confessed with their mouths Jesus Christ as Lord to the glory of the Father.
"For this reason God has given Hom a name above every name that at the name of Jesus Christ every knee shall bow and every tongue confess......:o)