[b-hebrew] hell
Peter Kirk
peter at qaya.org
Sat Mar 18 05:11:58 EST 2006
On 18/03/2006 02:27, Rolf Furuli wrote:
> ... The words of
> Daniel 12:13 express in a clear way the view by the writer of that book: NIV
> says: "You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to
> receive your alloted inheritance." The hope is not connected with an
> intrinsic immortality, but with God`s ability and desire to give life to a
> dead person, i.e., to resurrect or recreate that person. In fact, the view
> that every man has an immortal soul (intrinsic immortality) and the view of
> a resurrection of the dead are mutually exclusive concepts. A person needs
> not be given life (immortality) if that person already possesses life
> (immortality).
>
I see your point, Rolf. But there is in fact no inconsistency between
the view that the *soul* is intrinsically immortal and the teaching that
God will resurrect the *body*. While I would not claim that this is the
teaching of the Tanakh (although it is not inconsistent with Daniel
12:13, Hosea 13:14 etc), this seems to have been the New Testament view
and the majority view of Christians since that time; I think it was also
a common view in Jewish writings of the Second Temple period and later.
I am not trying to argue here that this is correct, only that it is a
logically consistent position. The implication is that what
intrinsically survives death is a disembodied soul, in some kind of
intermediate state (perhaps this is the bleak world of "Sheol";
according to some it is an unconscious state of "soul sleep"), and that
at the end of time God will provide this disembodied soul with a new body.
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Peter Kirk
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