Lets watch how this error works again.
Jesus in
John 6:40
40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise
him up at the last day.
Reading this verse should be very plain to understand when the saint receives everlasting life. At the last day.
To make it into something else one has to mentally insert into the text something like this.
40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise his
DEAD BODY UP at the last day.
Now if anyone actually wrote the verse that way you would immediately catch the perversion of the verse. Or if someone quoted it as chapter and verse you would correct them.
Then why pray tell do we not catch the error when someone trys to explain the verse that very same way?
Jesus obviously is not just referring to raising up merely ones body in the verse but raising
HIM....THE PERSON.
Again:
John 6:44
No
man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise
him up at the last day.
Clear isn't it?
Jesus will raise up the
MAN.....PERSON who comes to him at the
LAST DAY.
Note Jesus did
NOT say "I will raise up the mans
DEAD BODY at the last day. Rather he would raise up the man,
HIM at the last day.
Is there not a difference between raising up
HIM and raising up his
dead body?
If Christ is raising
HIM up that means thats when he gains eternal life. At the resurrection. When men teach Jesus just meant he would raise the mans
DEAD BODY at the last day they are insinuating that the
PERSON was never dead at all! It changes Christ's meaning and confuses the hearer.
It leads saints to falsely believe the man who Christ says he will
RAISE UP and give eternal life was never dead and already
HAD ETERNAL LIFE! They say
ONLY his body was dead!
If a Preacher would be preaching a sermon and misquote verse 44 there would be an awkward silence as disciples would realize he had quoted the verse wrong.
And
YET....when explaining the
MEANING of the verse thats exactly what they teach! And no one says a thing!
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