aiōnios = eternal, everlasting
False,...and we've had clear video lessons on 'aion', 'aionios', 'aionion', 'olam', etc.
here
Aionios simply means 'pertaining to an age' or to the 'ages'. Aion = age. An age is period of time that has a beginning and end,...like a dispensation. You still display ignorance of the actual etymology of this word, and how to properly translate it by its original meaning (in its various implications and contexts), and not a slanted English translation or 'assumption' which 'tradition' imposes upon the text. These writers did NOT write in English. That's why you have to go back to original languages, etymology, ancient/modern use, also the Hebrew word equivalents like 'olam', etc.
Another excellent article on this subject is
[URL="http://www.mercifultruth.com/eternity.html"]here[/URL].
Consider:
Ellicott's Commentary on the Whole Bible (Matt. 25:46). Everlasting punishment--life eternal. The two adjectives represent the same Greek word, aionios it must be admitted that the Greek word which is rendered "eternal" does not, in itself, involve endlessness, but rather, duration, whether through an age or succession of ages, and that it is therefore applied in the N.T. to periods of time that have had both a beginning and ending (Rom. 16:25).
Remember,....an 'aion' is an 'age'. An 'age' is prescribed period or duration of time. Understand? Even the term 'aionios life' refers to life enduring for an age, it is unto an age or ages. The term 'aionios life' does NOT equate or mean 'immortality'. There is a wholly different greek word for 'immortality' and it is NOT 'aion' or any of its derivitives. 'Eternal life' then in the original languages infers life extending thru an 'age', a given dispensation, an epoch. Believers LATER if they qualify and commit to God's will attain 'immortality'...and it is only then that they can live indefinitely/endlessly...because they SHARE in the immortality (divine nature) of God himself.
no you commit yourself to eternal punishment
by rejecting Jesus Christ payment for your sin.
I committ myself to no such misconception of yours. While my interpretation of Christ's "atonement" may differ from your own,...I do not reject Jesus as being our Savior and Lord....but may question and challenge certain aspects of the primitive 'belief' about 'blood-atonement'.
you have an eternal spirit Christians have eternal life
don't muddy the definitions
I'll add to my former statement that 'eternal life' (aionios life) does not necessarily equate 'immortality', as it refers to life that is given to endure for an 'age', or into the 'ages',...its dispensational. However, when a soul "puts on immortality" to use Paul's terms....it is only THEN that it becomes immortal, sharing in the immortality of God, the perfection and ultimacy of the 'divine nature'. I suggest noting the difference. A deeper study in the linked article above will help to show this, that is if you're willing to research and learn more about the subject or if you'd like to debate or refute the information provided. I find that it holds, further proving that ECT is erroneous.
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no the Christians flesh has to put on immortality.
1Co 15:53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
Well, I think this is a 'carnal' imposition into what Paul is really speaking about, since the resurrection body is a "spiritual body". The physical body is sown (buried, returned back to the earthly elements)...and it arises in its heavenly form, a spiritual body. So, the resurrection is essentially 'spiritual' in nature, it is of a heavenly form, not carnal. Now we can split hairs here on 'terms' and where the 'soul' exists in all this, getting deeper into the context here, but perhaps another time.
your going to live it unless you repent,
and I am sure you will have better descriptions for it once your there
Well,....I hold to the fundamental reality that God is LOVE. That love is infinite. I'll just leave you to contemplate that for awhile :angel:
