This is not about being dead physically; but those five virgins were dead spiritually.
Revisiting some of the earlier post others have made in this thread…I’ve read all replies but some I didn’t comment back on, because I don’t know what to say. One of those post is the one you seemed irritated With me asking “why is this so hard for you to get?” To that I had no response.
Regarding “This is not about being dead physically; but those five virgins were dead spiritually”
For what it is worth … the OP never intended to suggest they were “all dead” physically. Because to me where Paul spoke 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 neither do I think this is suggesting all were dead physically but instead (Imo) all were
dead unto God. “For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: [15] And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.”
Since one died for all
Then all were dead unto God
Arise from the dead?
wake up you that sleep …point was “all slumbered and slept” which makes me think of the passage on: this is why many in the church sleep and are weak …which (Imo) is a cry of: even though we be as reprobates to you, this we hope, happy are we when are weak and you are made strong. This also we hope even your perfection. he urges “do no evil” not that we should seem approved but that you do what is right in the sight of God. (Awake unto God?) “Do no evil”
Deliver us from evil? Here, Paul is saying even though we be as weak…your persuasion that I’m a reprobate… “I trust you will know we are not reprobate” (could it be “not reprobates” having been reconciled unto God, made alive unto God)(awake you that sleep, raise from the dead, and Christ will give you light) …Daniel in the den of lions helps here …weakness and submission in the arena of spectators of what will the lions do? From Daniel and from Paul …however “God delivered me out from the lions den and He shut the mouths of lions” Daniel 6:22 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me(until Christ be formed in you); and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
Sounds like what Paul was telling them “I’m glad when I am weak. For when I am weak, I am strong.” “I trust you will see we are not reprobates”
but see …for me you suggested they were not all dead physically but were all dead spiritually …I’m not disagreeing. why then do we apply “wake up you that sleep, raise from the dead” to being physically dead and not spiritually dead? which I agree that is the point of
In that one died for all…
then all were dead (spiritually) that seems to be the urging of “
but now made Alive unto God by the body of Christ.” Ephesians 1:22-23 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, [23]
Which is his body, the fulness of him that fills all in all.
Ephesians 5:13-14 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. [14] Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Why do we take a parable about all being dead…say they were all dead “slumbered and slept” and then apply it to a futuristic waking up of some to damnation, and some awake to life …but all hear His voice saying “let the graves open and them come forth”… unto to death more abundantly or unto to life more abundantly?
