Mar 12.30 'And you shall love the LORD your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.'
This is the first commandment.
I told Izzy that I thought there was a spiritual element
included in Jesus' statement: "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own
dead." But I also told her that I thought it was not just directed at the
spirit aspect of personhood: "those who reject Christ are doing so with
their entire being -- mind, body, soul, and spirit." To
which Judy responded with ridicule, implying instead that Jesus'
statement was only in reference to the spiritual aspect, i.e., it was a
reference to spiritual death and nothing else.*
jt: Bill, I don't see it as
ridicule to say what the Bible says. There is no way a physically dead
person can get out there and dig a hole in order to bury another physically
dead person now is there? In scripture this concept of death is
that of being separated from God because
of sin which as I have been saying is what happened to A&E in the
garden. Anything else is confusion.
Judy, if first century
Jews prior to the cross were called to love God with all their
hearts, souls, minds, and strength, what do you suppose they were not
doing when they refused to follow his Son?
jt: Only
disciples were being called to follow the son at this point (Matt 8:22, Luke
9:60) - Also I would like to
point out that the same _expression_ is used in the parable of the Prodigal
Son who was dead in the pigpen and returned to life after a change of heart
(now is alive). It is also used in Ephesians 2:1 and in 1 Timothy
5:6.
judyt
Bill
* When He says "death" he means "death"
and since the death Adam experienced that day was not physical, nor was it
alzheimers (brain or soul death). What do you suppose it was? ...
The dead burying their dead is not speaking of physical or soulish death
since they were able to dig a hole and had presence of mind enough not to
let a dead body just lay around.
