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Because Charlie is arguing the first resurrection is physical. My response is 'how can that be' since our mortal body will not be resurrected immortal and incorruptible until the last trumpet sounds! According to Scripture, when our mortal body dies, the eternal spirit of faithful saints...

Charlie, without the Spirit of Christ making us spiritually alive together with Christ, no one would possess faith to believe Christ. That is the purpose for which Christ has sent His Spirit to be IN US! John 3:6 (KJV) That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the...

The first resurrection for those who die in faith is SPIRITUAL! It happens when those who were "dead in trespasses and sins", walking according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience. To have...

Okay, this is a good starting point. We agree the Kingdom of God that came with Christ to earth is not a physical Kingdom but is a spiritual Kingdom. When Christ says that man MUST be born again to both know and enter the Kingdom of God, is our entrance into His Kingdom through His Spirit in...

We no longer belong to the dead when we have been born again. At the moment of new birth we have been made eternally alive in Christ and even though our body will one day breathe its last, we as spiritual body shall be living souls in heaven that we may always been where Christ is.

With more context Paul says he is at home while clothed in his body of flesh, but while being clothed in flesh and blood he cannot be physically with the Lord. For that reason Paul longs to put off his body (die) because he would much rather be spiritually present with the Lord in heaven rather...

Those who die in faith, need not come to life again to live and reign with Christ! Why? Because the life we receive when we are born of God is eternal, and not even death of our body can take away the everlasting life we have through Christ's Spirit in us. It is written that when our body is...

Charlie, you seem unable or unwilling to distinguish between the Kingdom of God that now is and the Kingdom of God that shall be when Christ comes again. Unless we come to the same understanding of the Kingdom of God that came with Christ when He came to earth a man, we will never be able to...

Your POV (1) Charlie, this view does not address the inconsistencies and even contradictions a literal one thousand years of time creates. How can the same thousand years be both past and future and still be literally one thousand years? Reply to POV (2) Some translations do cause apparent...

Marty, I believe the thousand years is symbolically time given the church on earth to proclaim the gospel to mankind. It coincides with Satan's binding because the Kingdom of God is being built then, as the gospel is proclaimed, and many hear the gospel and believe, and are assured that they...

Hello Charlie, the text of Rev 20 tells us (vs 4) the martyred saints lived and reigned with Christ for 'a' thousand years, and it also tells us the blessed and holy, those of the first resurrection (vs 6) shall reign with Christ 'a' thousand years. John also writes (vs 5) the rest of the dead...

Spirits of unbelievers in heaven have no conscience awareness they are in darkness and silence in unbelief! Heaven above the heavens is the habitation of God who is Spirit with His angels and whosoever has been born from above/again. Believers dwell in heaven through the Spirit of Christ in...

As Scripture tells us the spirit of every human being, whether dying in faith or unbelief, returns to God who gave it while every mortal body of flesh returns to the earth. Matthew 11:23 (KJV) And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty...

As I've already said, it is the physical body of Saul and his sons that shall be in graves, just as the mortal body of Samuel is. That is the part of all of them that shall return to the earth after death. The spirit that physically gives all earthly creatures the breath of life (makes them...

It is the spirit of every man that returns to God when our body dies. The spirit then will either have life/living soul, or in darkness and silence through unbelief. It is the spirit in man that gives them life. Without life from the spirit the body of man is in darkness and silence in the...

No Saul was not saved. Because he died without faith, he shall only live again when he is physically resurrected to be cast into the eternal lake of fire.

According to the Scripture the disciples saw a "vision" not physically living men. Matthew 17:9 (KJV) And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

Samuel was telling Saul that both he and his sons would physically die the next day. Their physical body, like the body of Samuel would be in the grave. It is only the spirit not our flesh that returns to God after we physically die. The spirit of the unsaved dead shall be in silence and...

Acts 2:37 (KJV) Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Acts 2:38-41 (KJV) Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the...

The purpose for being baptized in water cannot be a display of salvation, because many are baptized in water who have never turned to Christ for eternal life. I believe water baptism signifies obedience for outward membership within the covenant body of Christ in the same way circumcision of...