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passage in the Bible, by any means, where the living God disclaims relationship with the dead. He asks (Zechariah, I. 5):
"Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?"
Jesus also said :
"As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from Heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever."(John, VII. 57 & 58,)
One more instance would suffice for our purpose, though any number can be pointed out from the Holy Bible itself:
THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
"And I will make drunk her (Babylon's) princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of Hosts."-(Jeremiah, LI. 57.)
Babylon, probably, is the symbol, in a wider sense, of the world, but even were we to read it in its narrower sense, the above passage, from Jeremiah, unmistakably points to the impossibility of resurrection, in the popular sense. And, yet, Luke says that all live unto God, and he cannot be ignored. Wherein lies the reconciliation of these conflicting views, is a question which Orthodox theology is again unable to answer. But, if we reject the popular notions about the doctrine of resurrection, it is easy to get at the truth embedded in these seemingly conflicting utterances of the Father' and the 'Son' both. Let us put down the propositions categorically, to begin with. We get,
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(1) All live in God, who is God of the living, not of the dead,
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