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Immediately after Adam and Eve experienced spiritual death, they also began to experience physical death, even though it took many years for this process to have its full effect. This can be better understood with the example of a flower separated from its life source.
There is no way you eat, without killing. Kill the bacteria attached to any food before eating. Kill the indigestibles by boiling before eating. Who has eaten raw yam? You must first kill, to eat! Understanding what God means when He says "Kill and eat" - taking possession of His blessings and spoils.
Scriptures offer descriptions and poetic images conveying heaven's splendour and majesty. The Old Testament often describes heaven as God's residing kingdom, while the New Testament predominantly emphasizes heaven as the ultimate reward for righteousness and faith in Jesus Christ. Both emphases are correct.
The concept of hell, though varies across different denominations because of theological perspectives and interpretations of scriptures, has some important tenets: divine justice, eternal punishment, moral responsibility, and the existence of moral evil.
God is all-knowing, so knows all paths – knowing all paths means His design of our life journey is permuted. Permutation refers the number of ways a particular life journey can be chosen and taken. Within God's predestined permutation for each individual, the individual has free-will.
It is choice, not chance, that determines our destiny. No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. Choice! There are five critical choices that shape our lives.
Mature adulthood represents the pinnacle of spiritual growth, where the believer moves from a focus on personal survival and success to a focus on legacy and stewardship. Maturity is not an end-state where you stop growing; rather, it is the state where your growth becomes the foundation for someone else's life.
The Christian life begins with conception. Physical growth is inevitable as long as you are healthy, but spiritual growth is not automatic. To "grow in the Lord" is a continuous process of becoming more like Christ in our thoughts, words, and actions.
A newborn baby is a bundle of potential, but they are also fragile and needy. Spiritual infancy is a beautiful, albeit messy, stage where we learn the "ABCs" of the faith and develop a taste for God's Truth.