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Death Is Not Stronger Than Life

If God is not the giver of life, why are so many people raised from death?

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19 “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and [h]fared sumptuously every day. 20 But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, 21 desiring to be fed with [i]the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

24 “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’

27 “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ 29 Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’ ”

Listen to what Jesus said about the rich man's brothers. Do you really want to be like them?
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If God is the giver of life, why do so many die before being resurrected, and why are so many not brought back?
GodSpeed63 · 70-79, M
@NerdyPotato
If God is the giver of life, why do so many die before being resurrected, and why are so many not brought back?

That's a good question. What do you think, if Adam and Eve obeyed God in the beginning, would death have existed?
@GodSpeed63 Reads just like mythology.
@GodSpeed63 maybe not, but that doesn't matter to my question. Regardless what His decision was based on, it was His decision to let everyone die and only resurrect very few before letting them die again later. He could have forgiven Adam and Eve for their mistake, but He didn't.
God sets down the rule about not to eat from the tree and who immediately disobeyed? The first two humans.

There is never forgiveness without blood in the Bible. Be it beasts or human.
@BlueSkyKing and that's a choice. An all powerful good God could easily forgive without sacrifice, and definitely refrain from taking revenge on people who didn't even exist when others disobeyed him. But the biblical God does not do that.
GodSpeed63 · 70-79, M
@NerdyPotato @NerdyPotato
He could have forgiven Adam and Eve for their mistake, but He didn't.

Even though God forgives, sin has to be dealt with. Good parents discipline their children for the wrong they do but they still forgive them.
@GodSpeed63 but we didn't eat the fruit. Making thousands of generations pay for the mistake of two people doesn't sound like discipline but vengeance. Far from forgiving, and not good parenting.
GodSpeed63 · 70-79, M
@NerdyPotato
but we didn't eat the fruit.

In this fallen world of ours, we've all eaten the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. therefore, God leaves us a choice: we either choose His precious gift of salvation or go our own way and perish. Know this, it is God's desire that none of us go our won way and perish but receive the gift salvation through Jesus Christ by His Holy Spirit. Listen, God is into restoring relationships, the relationship between Him and us and us with each other. You decide what you want to do. I'll be praying for you.
@GodSpeed63 how kind of him to save us from the curse He gave us, but only under very strict conditions. That screams love indeed...
GodSpeed63 · 70-79, M
@NerdyPotato
how kind of him to save us from the curse He gave us, but only under very strict conditions.

We brought this curse on ourselves, not God. Put the blame where it belongs.
@GodSpeed63 I was not even a separate egg and sperm cell when the curse was brought on us. I had absolutely nothing to do with that. So I do put the blame where it belongs.
DocSavage · M
@GodSpeed63
Nonsense. How much effort would it take to create one little fence and avoid the problem to begin with ? Adam and Eve lacked the judgement to understand the consequences of their actions and god had to know what was coming. You telling me, he set time and space into motion, writes history before it happens. And didn’t set it all up ?
@DocSavage or why not create different humans who would use their free will in a way he approved?

And why did they cover up the second they learned about good and evil? That implies nudity is evil according to the bible, yet that's how God intended them to live. And God lied about the effects of eating the fruit while the snake spoke the truth. If you don't start with the notion that God is good and judge what the bible describes with an open mind, he's obviously the bad guy. But somehow an all knowing and all powerful being is held to much lower standards than mere humans.
GodSpeed63 · 70-79, M
@NerdyPotato @DocSavage
I was not even a separate egg and sperm cell when the curse was brought on us

Doesn't matter, in this world we live in, we consume the knowledge of good and evil and it's up to us to decide which one we will follow. Evil leads to the devil and death, good leads to Christ and life.
DocSavage · M
@GodSpeed63
If Adam and Eve hadn’t eaten the fruit, there wouldn’t be any good or evil. No one could comprehend the consequences of their actions. We would all be dimwits with no purpose in life.
You might be okay with that, but most of us like having some meat on our bones.