Messianic Journeys (11) What is the Inner Man Who Needs Saving?

[Rebbe]

Shalom Aleikhem to our Guests!

Christians who persecute others with their selective list of Bible “proof texts” arguing for “soul-sleep” are usually mortified when we capably quote combative texts with which they are totally void of any knowledge whatever. But we of all people ought to have memorised these ignored biblical texts in order to combat “soul-sleep” when it is utilised against our enthusiasm for the Gospel of universal salvation in Christ and by the same token our understanding of humankind’s derived immortality from the One who ALONE possesses an innate immortality (1 Timothy 6.16).

As Aramaic scholar Rocco Errico has well stated, the Messiah “destroyed the fear of death, not the [actual] process of death itself. It is the law of life that brings us into this world, and it is the same law of life that carries us out” (Let There Be Light, 2017, 199). He added that the resurrection of Christ “from the dark and dreaded grave was not an attempt to prove a religious doctrine of eternal life. It was to uncover a long-held secret of nature – that no life ever comes to an end. The resurrection clearly reveals that life is spiritual in its essence and, therefore, eternal and not ephemeral” (op.cit., 199).

Too many pagan Greek concepts are to be found scattered throughout the “New Testament” Scriptures, and this is understandable when we accept the notion that these texts were originally penned in Greek and from thence into other modern languages. But if they were rather originally written in Aramaic, a language spoken by the Jewish people in the time of Christ, and from which Aramaic-speaking world came the Messiah Yeshua, then the idea of a derived immortality should be found in various areas of that same biblical revelation. And of course, that is precisely what we discover!

Indeed, the same Aramaic scholar we have already quoted above admits that “the word “death” in Aramaic means “to be present elsewhere.” It does not mean annihilation, nor does it mean to cease to exist” (Errico, ibid., 197).

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