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🗓️ 19 September 2024
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0:00.0 | Hello Dr Craig. Craig. In chapter 2 of your book on guard you say biblical |
0:19.5 | Christianity therefore provides the two conditions necessary for a meaningful, valuable, and purposeful life, |
0:26.8 | God and immortality. |
0:29.5 | I am in full agreement, however, the Universalists have spoken at length on words used within the Bible |
0:36.0 | that are translated forever and ever, everlasting, eternal life, etc. |
0:42.2 | Those words are I own, Ioneos, and Idios in Greek. The difficulty I have is when I search |
0:51.6 | for particular phrases pertaining to these words in the Bible, the search |
0:55.4 | results are littered mostly with universalist perspectives. |
1:00.3 | Example phrases would be, A.ona into the age or Ace Tone Iona on |
1:07.0 | unto the age of ages. Of course the fear is that if it is only into the age, ages end. |
1:18.0 | Therefore, there must be a vanishing point for us after the completion of the age and no matter how many trillions of years we live |
1:25.8 | It'll all eventually mean nothing because we would remember nothing in non-being |
1:32.4 | I know that based on your book your position is that we are |
1:36.0 | infinite and eternal with God as you wrote quote because of this we will live |
1:41.6 | consistently and happily within the framework of our |
1:44.2 | worldview. Thus biblical Christianity succeeds precisely where atheism |
1:49.3 | breaks down." And quite frankly I've comforted myself saying, |
1:54.0 | Dr Craig is smarter than me, so I just trust him in the matter. |
1:58.0 | Still, I want to bury this fear completely. |
2:01.0 | Aside from Paul talking about how we are imperishable, incorruptible, and immortal, |
2:07.1 | do we know that the Bible refers to eternity in important places like John 316 using the word I own and words based on I own. |
2:16.9 | In addition, why do the biblical writers refer to eternally with the words Ionia |
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