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Originally Posted by Esaias
Brother Blume said: Paul's confidence in, and desire to, be absent from the body to be present with the Lord was speaking in reference to the groaning he experienced in his body, and the better situation of not being in it and weighted down by the groanings it caused.
So Paul said he groaned to be in the "intermediate naked state"? Yet he specifically wrote:
2Co 5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
2Co 5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
2Co 5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
He specifically stated we do not groan for the unclothed or naked intermediate state, but rather for the clothed resurrected state.
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Please get the context of why I said that, which shows you did not read my whole posts. If we're not going to be thorough and responding to each other's post, then why even continue this? I distinctly made the disclaimer that compared to being in the body and groaning and being with Jesus, that was the issue. And I distinctly said the ultimate destination and desire was to be in a body. You completely glossed all over that distinction. This is what has always made this forum so frustrating.
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Last edited by mfblume; 12-03-2018 at 04:32 PM.
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