Pastor John,
Brad and I read and are discussing Vince’s email and your response. While we found both to be very clarifying, they brought up a couple questions:
(1) If Jesus comes back to exhume our bodies and take them to heaven to glorify, then what happens if our bodies are ashes via cremation?
(2) If after death our spirits are taken by the Lord to be with him, that indicates that our spirits are our true life. What is our soul? Is our spirit synonymous with our soul?
Brad & Allison
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Hi,
Thank you for the questions. You two have really been thinking about these things.
(1) If Jesus comes back to exhume our bodies and take them to heaven to glorify, then what happens if our bodies are ashes via cremation?
My brilliant answer: I have no idea. I just know that is what the Bible says Jesus will do.
(2) If after death our spirits are taken by the Lord to be with him, that indicates that our spirits are our true life. What is our soul? Is our spirit synonymous with our soul?
My answer: That’s an easy one. A soul is the combination of a spirit and a body, as we see in creation: “And Jehovah God formed the man from dirt of the ground, and He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life [spirit], and the man became a living soul” (Gen. 2:7).
Thank you for the questions. That’s the best I can do with them.
Pastor John
Comments welcome:
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