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Post by hftwo on Sept 16, 2019 11:27:40 GMT
Gospel of Thomas saying 60 (He saw) a Samaritan carrying a lamb and going to Judea. He said to his disciples, "(...) that person (...) around the lamb." They said to him, "So that he may kill it and eat it." He said to them, "He will not eat it while it is alive, but only after he has killed it and it has become a carcass." They said, "Otherwise he can't do it." He said to them, "So also with you, seek for yourselves a place for rest, or you might become a carcass and be eaten." What in the world Jesus wants to say with this based on this text alone Immanuel? Thanks whatever You choose to answer or not
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Post by Immanuel on Sept 19, 2019 20:39:04 GMT
Hi,
Eat and consume is called the same in the old Semitic languages, it does not necessarily refer to eating food but anything which is getting consumed.
So he might talk about becoming a carcass or corpse, but he does not say they are eaten but consumed as that the Earth breaks their dead bodies down.
He means that they must find order or soundness (possibly selam or selah are used Semitic words in the original passage) or they die and wither away.
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Post by hftwo on Sept 19, 2019 21:17:30 GMT
So if one finds order and balance of Mind one never dies and never withers away? So the body keeps regenerating for-eternity?
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Post by rekkd on Sept 20, 2019 12:00:22 GMT
I don’t think immortality exists.
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Post by Immanuel on Sept 20, 2019 21:14:45 GMT
So if one finds order and balance of Mind one never dies and never withers away? So the body keeps regenerating for-eternity? You do not have a body if you get released, but yes you will not die or either away in an endless cycle. Both states of existence are in a way immortality, but the one in a body is more like nightmares you are trapped into with no escape and they succeed each other. Physical death in itself is just a charade, you do not really die no matter if you move on or experience a relapse.
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