2006/3/15, Karl Randolph <kwrandolph AT email.com>:No, Herman, Karl is not at all right. I know it is off topic for this list to discuss the New Testament, but I cannot let him pass with this gross distortion of the message of books which I consider to be holy. True, they don't say much about the details of the afterlife. But the principle is not "unimportant" but one of the very most important things in every part of the New Testament. The NT just doesn't make sense if its teaching is only on how to make the best of this life. Rather its whole thrust is on how to live to please God for eternity, most of which is the afterlife. I could provide lots of proof of this, but I would rightly get in trouble for doing it here.
The New Testament carried on the tradition that the
afterlife was seldom mentioned; not because it was
irrelevant, but because it was unimportant. It was
theologians who really play up the issue. Even the
New Testament book of Revelation finds the afterlife
so important that it is described in only two of its
22 chapters.
I guess you're right, after all it is this life, first, that we are to
make the best of.
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