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May 15Liked by Tudor Alexander

I have listened to nearly everything you recommended. Some episodes more than once. Is there a place where I can find the links you use for your sources?

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Hi Lisa, with series like this one I compile them and post the references list at the end. So that will be in about two months or so.

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May 4Liked by Tudor Alexander

Watched this 3 times, I found it fascinating and I really wanted to understand it. The truth of The Gospel, and Jesus gives so much Peace. I'm a chef, kitchens are not for the faint of heart( think Gordon Ramsey) I am, in God's perfect timings, sharing the gospel in the most loving and kind way. They are all such receptive vessels. Imparting God's truths as your presenting them has been intrical as the recapitulation has helped this A.D.D human.

Truly amazing. Thankful for this study. Appreciate you friend.

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Working in a kitchen is serious stuff! I'm happy to hear it was a blessing to you friend. You are very welcome.

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I will listen, however, i am a bit skeptical to be honest. I believe to be saved means to be saved from His wrath. If we cease to exist, what is the punishment then?

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Your blindspot is that you believe "wrath" means God will:

1) Sustain people who rejected Christ for eternity

2) Torture them for eternity

#1 is inconsistent with the gospel

#2 is inconsistent with God's pattern of justice and wrath

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I must admit, I am a little confused as to how “eternal conscious torture” is being understood and communicated. Didn’t Jesus himself teach that souls would endure where there would be “weeping and gnashing of teeth”? I don’t think what is being taught here is that souls that are destined to perdition cease to exist, but I would like clarification. Thanks!

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We will get to the meaning of these idioms in a future episode, but check out the first 4 to get an idea of what people who wrote the bible, including Jesus, believed about the soul. The soul to the Hebrew mind was a complex union of physical and spiritual. We do not have souls but we are souls, meaning we do not persist after death. We are resurrected, some to be destroyed (if you rejected Christ) and some to eternal life. Those who are destroyed are destroyed forever.

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I appreciate your work and will be supporting you for a bit. I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on a fair amount of what you present (you get a bit too conspiratorial for me), but much of what you believe makes sense. You know the Bible well and are a very logical thinker. I read the Bible more to consider your interpretation, which is a blessing.

I know you plan to create many more episodes on the afterlife, and I have a question I hope you will address. What about Enoch and Elijah, who were taken up to heaven and did not experience a physical death?

Even more confusing to me is the. Mount of Transfiguration, where Christ visited with Moses and Elijah. Did God resurrect them and then put them back to sleep?

I also hope you are planning to address 2 Corinthians 5:8.

I like your view on the afterlife. I have always struggled with the idea of eternal conscious torture.

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Hi Lisa,

Everything I put forward is a result of rigorous study, both using the bible and history, and countless hours of research. I document everything I do so that you do not take my word for it but simply evaluate the evidence. With that being said I have a 36 part End Times Series, and another recent series titled "The Great Delusion" as well playlists on "The Beast" and "Christian Nationalism" and "Zionism/Dispensationalism" that all point to the same truth, which is what the bible says, that the world will marvel after the Beast, which is the Catholic institution. Do not take my word for it in this post, go and watch everything I have documented and see if you think I am "conspiratorial."

As to the topics you brought up regarding the afterlife, context matters. The first 4 episodes of the Afterlife series document for you both history and the bible on what people believed about death and how that changed thanks to pagan influences. That means that what we think about said verses must be wrong, and there is a better explanation.

Enoch was not taken up to heaven. Nowhere does it say that. Enoch was taken by God, in the sense that he was granted a quick and painless death because he was being persecuted. The next waking moment for someone is the resurrection, so God "took him" so that he would avoid having to be tortured by Nephilim and rebellious humans.

Elijah was taken into heaven, but not the way most people think. Elijah was taken into the sky, and placed somewhere else. He wrote a letter several years after that event because he was still on the Earth. Elijah never went to heaven, as is testified by Jesus when He says that no man has ascended into heaven.

The Mount of Transfiguration situation was a vision. If you read carefully, Jesus tells the apostles to "tell the vision to no one."

2 Corinthians 5:8 is a matter of fact statement on the resurrection, which is what Paul consistently preached. To die means that the next waking moment is the resurrection. There is no sense of passage of time.

And yes, eternal conscious torment is a deception designed to discredit God and discredit the gospel.

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