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Originally Posted by NotforSale
Question; New Testament aside, is what the Jews taught and believed about the Afterlife in the past, wrong?
Also, Prophets and those in the Old Testament such as Moses and Abraham had an apparent direct line to the Almighty God. Do you feel that the words of Jesus were greater than the words spoke directly by God?
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I don't believe God directly addressed the afterlife with the prophets. We see some implications that are debated among rabbis, but that's all. Jesus is eternity stepping into time. Jesus would know about Hell... Jesus would know about the final judgment. The Jews weren't "wrong"... it's just all they had to go by are vague implications and shadows of an unknown reality.
Moses wasn't God in flesh...Abraham wasn't God in flesh. None of the prophets were God in flesh. The prophets were just men of their day. No doubt they as men didn't have a fully developed doctrine of the afterlife beyond what was considered to be the popular opinion of their day. Also, no one but Jesus has risen from the grave. Jesus is the fountain head of Christian understanding. Not the OT.
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