everyone is going to die that "lives after the flesh" -
Romans 8:13.
Evidently, you don't plan on keeping the sayings of Jesus -
"He that keeps my sayings shall never see death" -
John 8:51.
I dare you to tell me - 'That just means Spiritual Death'.
Or, that means, 'Eternal Death'.
None of the original twelve apostles are still alive in the flesh walking around on the Earth.
In fact there are NO saints hundreds or thousands or years old still alive on the Earth.
I don't think anyone would say that this means "spiritual death", in fact it's just the opposite, our spirits live forever.
Eternal death - thats a subject debated here often. But most of us do not believe in annihilation. (a few do)
The righteous live eternally with God. The un-righteous live in eternal torment and damnation as you say.
(Who is righteous and un-righteous is another subject for another thread)
All of us, everyone of us will die in a sense, even those who are alive at the time of the rapture.
We will be changed, in the twinkling of an eye. Our old fleshly bodies will return to the dust
and we will be given new glorified/spiritual bodies.
1Cor 15:35 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?"
1Cor 15:36 You fool! That which you sow does not come to life
unless it dies;
1Cor 15:37 and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else.
1Cor 15:38 But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
1Cor 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish.
1Cor 15:40 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another.
1Cor 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
1Cor 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead.
It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body;
1Cor 15:43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
1Cor 15:44 it is
sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
1Cor 15:45 So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1Cor 15:46 However,
the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
1Cor 15:47 The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.
1Cor 15:48 As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly.
1Cor 15:49 Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.
1Cor 15:51; Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
1Cor 15:52; in a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and
the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
1Cor 15:53; For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
John 11:25; Jesus said to her, "
I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,
John 12:24;
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Job 34:15; All
flesh would perish together, And man would
return to dust.
Psa 90:3; You turn man
back into dust And say, "Return, O children of men."
Psa 104:29; You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their spirit,
they expire And return to their dust.
Ecc 3:20; All go to the same place. All came from the dust and
all return to the dust.
Ecc 12:7; then
the dust will return to the earth as it was, and
the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Isa 26:19;
Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.
Mark 12:25; "For when
they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Mark 12:26; "But regarding the fact that
the dead rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, and the God of Jacob'?
1Thes 4:16; For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and
the dead in Christ will rise first.
Usually when people dare other people, it's because they have a chip on their shoulder.
