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Originally Posted by Margies3
I'm not understanding that he is declaring that the love of God fails at physical death. If the prodigal son had decided that he liked it out there in the muck and mire and chose to stay there until his death, his father's love would not have ended just because the son had made that decision. In fact, I believe that if the son had died in the muck and mire, the father would have grieved terribly because the son was now lost to him forever. But it was the son's choice. Not the father's.
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The son would have only been lost for the age, not forever, as David understand when his son died, and he was questioned on why he stop grieving. His response, "...he cannot come to me, yet I will go to him..." The end of physical life in this world is not the end, only the end of the beginning.
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