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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
Just wondered your thoughts.
If this is a dream, and Illusion - there is no death ever - why would God
care if someone killed another?
Wouldn't He know that they come back again and again?
I'm coming to Gen Beliefs more and more.
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Miss Hepburn,
Back to your original post. There is one problem with this posting....namely it is in these words of yours...."there is no death ever". The Bible indicates that there was death at one time. Genesis 2:17...."but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." Now we cannot accept that God lies. And conversely the serpent said...."you will not surely die"(Genesis 3:4). Both God and the serpent were telling the truth. The two were speaking of two different kinds of life....i.e......God was speaking of immortal or eternal life and the serpent was speaking of mortal life. Man as originally created by God was the image and likeness of God. God is a spirit so man in his original creation had to also be a spirit to be present in the image and likeness of God.
The part of man that died with his eating of the forbidden fruit was his spirit. With that act man became dead to God. The banishment from the Garden resulted in this decree from God....Genesis 3:22...."......He must not reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live FOREVER." It was at this time that eternal life was denied to man and if life is not eternal then it means that the 'death' that God had warned of was introduced to mankind.
Biblically the Spirit was restored to mankind on the day of Pentecost. It was the mission of Jesus to once again bring life to man....John 10:10....."I have come that they may have life....". The Bible also tells us elsewhere that the Spirit was not completely taken away from mankind with references to a chosen remnant,,,,,but this was a very few. Acts 2:33-34....."Exalted to the right hand of God, he(Jesus) has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. For David did not ascent to heaven....". Even a biblical figure such as David had been denied ascension to heaven.
In short one could advance a theory that God did not care if men murdered each other but not because He knew they would live forever. They were already dead to God from the time of the fall from the Garden until the day of Pentecost. We can also believe that now that our Spirit has been restored and we once again bear the image and likeness of God that He would care very much if we murdered others(those that bear his likeness).