Ash on Nostr: Brother, you're asking hows when we have the what and why. We don't know how gravity ...
Brother, you're asking hows when we have the what and why.
We don't know how gravity works, let alone the minute detail of how the soul develops.
But I know if I go see my wife right now in nine months a soul (the what) will be there because I got her pregnant (the why) and want to be fruitful and multiply.
Same for the step-by-step of how we'll be judged. We don't have that. We are told *by what standard* (the what) we'll be judged.
By how the sheep were treated.
The sheep will be judged by how they treated the sheep (Matthew 25:31-46).
It's the same thought as "Love thy neighbor as thyself ["neighbor" is not the Greek word for geological neighbor; it is the word for one "near you"]. (Point of the Good Samaritan parable--literally answering a lawyer asking "Who is my neighbor?" in Luke.)
(Also note that "Love you enemies" is not "Love God's enemies," who should be our enemies.)
We don't know how gravity works, let alone the minute detail of how the soul develops.
But I know if I go see my wife right now in nine months a soul (the what) will be there because I got her pregnant (the why) and want to be fruitful and multiply.
Same for the step-by-step of how we'll be judged. We don't have that. We are told *by what standard* (the what) we'll be judged.
By how the sheep were treated.
The sheep will be judged by how they treated the sheep (Matthew 25:31-46).
It's the same thought as "Love thy neighbor as thyself ["neighbor" is not the Greek word for geological neighbor; it is the word for one "near you"]. (Point of the Good Samaritan parable--literally answering a lawyer asking "Who is my neighbor?" in Luke.)
(Also note that "Love you enemies" is not "Love God's enemies," who should be our enemies.)