"Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life." (John 5:39-40 KJV)
"Because God's children are human beings - made of flesh and blood - the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying." (Hebrews 2:14-15 NLT)
Prior to my salvation, it would have been easy to see that I was a man who was fixated by death; not that I was fearful of death, but that I had, should I say, a respect for death, in that I understood that everyone is going to die; therefore I accepted the fact, death was certain, and it was just a matter of when and how. If you ask me now, death is pretty much just a transformation; but the when and how is still relevant.
No matter who you are or what position you have in this life, when it is your time to die, it is your time to die. The difference between those who are in Christ and those that are not, is that those in Christ get to graduate into the eternal life that has been promised; those that do not know Christ as their Savior, are going to wait for judgment.
If you understand what God has said, from the very beginning, His judgment is Just and Holy. Looking at the Day of Judgment, there are books opened, the Books of Judgment; all of which are to judge the ones which are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life; or so the story goes. Interesting enough, it might be that those written in the Lamb's Book of Life are there also, but not to be judged and sentenced to the second death, but to be an example of the grace and mercy all those who are not in the Book of Life have missed out on, because they refused to accept God's Son!
Anywho, that is just my opinion, based upon how it is written, (Revelation 20:11-15). One thing is absolutely certain, there will be nobody that is judged who will have an excuse for not knowing or having not been given the chance to know Christ and the free offer that was given. My synopsis remains the same: Be born twice, and you only die once; be born once, and you will die twice...
"Adam had sexual relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to another son. She named him Seth, for she said, "God has granted me another son in place of Abel, whom Cain killed." When Seth grew up, he had a son and named him Enosh. At that time people first began to worship the LORD by name." (Genesis 4:25-26 NLT)
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