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Friday, 3 January 2025
The lawless dead vs. Eternal torture.
Roman ch.7:1NIV"Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives?"
At death law ends and hence sin ends and sanction for sin ends.
Romans ch.6:7NIV"because anyone who has died has been set free from sin."
These facts are key to understanding how Christ substitutionary atonement works.
If it is not literally the case that no further penalty can be exacted from the dead as the transition from living to dead is itself a plenary payment of the Divine sanction Christ death and resurrection does not constitute a legal substitution for anyone.
So the claim of some kind of additional post mortem penalty is irrational.