19-01-2020, 12:54 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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Originally Posted by ThatMan
There's any bible verse to back up your words? Same place, different parts? I have shown how the dead are in a state of sleep, they do not think, they do not work, they do nothing there, and then we have this story, the rich man and poor Lazaurs, that at first glance, contradicts the so many verses that talk about those who are dead that they are sleeping...
Ecclesiastes 9:10 "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going"
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The statements that speak of the dead not doing anything refer to their inability to affect anything in this world. God reveals truth a little at a time. It is only in the words of Jesus that we have a full revelation of truth.
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The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.
Leonard Ravenhill
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