Who is written in the Book of Life? (believe, dogma, scripture)
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Exod. 32:33: "And the LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book." .
Ps. 139:16: "Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." God knows who are his, even before they are born, everyone who lives is written in the book of life.
The book of life is a old and new testament doctrine. Phil 4:3 Paul recognized those who labored with him in the gospel, 'with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life. "
Rev.3:5: "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels." We overcome by our faith which is exhibited by faithfulness.
The Bible teaches there are three different kinds of death
1) dead in trespasses and sins- we are spiritually dead and severed from a relationship of the true God while we are living because of our sinful condition. "And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses." (Col 2:13-14;Eph.2:1) 1 Tim 5:7 "But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives." (speaking of being separated from God).
2) physical death- that is the consequence of sins. Rom.3:23 "the wages of sin is death.” (Rom.5) James 2:26 "For as the body without the spirit is dead..."
God's solution is the resurrection to eternal life 1 Thess. 4:16-17: " For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
Rev. 2:11: "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death."
Rev. 20:6: "Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years."
3) the 2nd death- eternal separation from God in both body and spirit.
The second death is the final consequence of refusing the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is in reference to having no change, being eternally permanent after they are resurrected. Unbelievers are resurrected brought before the throne and judged, to be sentenced in both body and spirit. All unbelievers from the beginning of time began are resurrected put back in their bodies and then put in the lake of fire in which they will now suffer in both the soul and body forever continuing in even a worse state.
The Book of life- is a record of everyone born
If a person dies as a believer his name is retained in the book of life, if he dies unsaved he is blotted out. Ps. 69:28: "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous."
Rev.13:8: "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."
Daniel also prophesied the judgment with books open. Dan 7:10 A river of fire was flowing, coming out from before him. Thousands upon thousands attended him; ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The court was seated, and the books were opened. Also in Dan.12 he mentions a time when Israel will be delivered and there will be those found written in the book. ( a reference to judgment probably of the just and unjust, as he states their position in the resurrection.)
Rev.20:12-15: "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."
Ps. 139:16: "Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." God knows who are his, even before they are born, everyone who lives is written in the book of life.
The Book of life- is a record of everyone born
Rev.13:8: "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."
Rev.20:12-15: "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."
How can you read all that and get this:
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If a person dies as a believer his name is retained in the book of life, if he dies unsaved he is blotted out. Ps. 69:28: "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous."
Everyone that lives is in the book, Those not written in the book are all going to worship Him. Those not written in the book are going in the lake of fire.
You can be blotted out if you are not righteous...
All human beings who were ever to be born as the seed of Adam were written in the Book of Life, in heaven, before the foundation of the world.
That book is the design book of the Manufacturer, and in it all the members of the human being body, all the DNA information for each body, and all the days of the life of each soul who would come forth in Adam were written before the foundation of the world. Even the numbers of hairs [follicles] on your head are written in that book, said Jesus, and not one will be lost in the regeneration of His sons.
Every soul written in that book was ordained from the foundation of the world to be a son of God born in Adam, and to be the ransomed sons of God in the adoption into the New Man name.
Jesus Christ owns that Book, and each person in that book has been atoned for by His Ransom/Atonement, once, for all.
No one can be born in Adam if they are not written in that book.
One can only get one's name blotted out of that book, but no one can get their name written in that book.
The Book of Life is first mentioned by Enoch. Enoch is the foundational revelation for all biblical doctrines, and for that reason that Enoch revealed them already, the foundations are not relaid in the OT or NT. Having once revealed the foundations, there is no repeat.
1 Enoch was banned by Rome hundreds of years after the NT Church was founded, but not banned by Ethiopian NT believers, who have always kept it in their 'canon'. The early NT Church members accepted Enoch as Scripture, and called it such, just as the righteous Jews did, as Jesus and His apostles and womb brothers also did. There was no reason to rewrite the foundational doctrines which Enoch revealed as truth from God.
Moses referred to that Book of Life in Genesis: Exd 32:32,33 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
Judas got his name blotted out of that book of Life, as well as the Pharisees who had Jesus killed, knowing that He was the Messiah:
Psa 69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents.Psa 69:26 For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.Psa 69:27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. Psa 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living/Book of Life, and not be written with the righteous.
Acts 1:15-And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,) Men [and] brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus. For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry....
Act 1:20For it is written in the book of Psalms,Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
Peter quotes from Psalm 69, applying it to Judas, who became a child of perdition/destruction when Satan entered him, and Peter quotes from Psalm 109, applying the same to Judas.
Luk 22:3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
Before Judas became a child of satan, his name was written in the book of Life, in heaven. Luk 10:20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. Quote:
1 Enoch
[Chapter 104] 1 I swear unto you, that in heaven the angels remember you for good before the glory of the Great 2 One: and your names are written before the glory of the Great One. Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were put to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall shine as the lights of heaven, 3 ye shall shine and ye shall be seen, and the portals of heaven shall be opened to you. And in your cry, cry for judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited on the 4 rulers, and on all who helped those who plundered you. Be hopeful, and cast not away your hopes for ye shall have great joy as the angels of heaven. What shall ye be obliged to do ? Ye shall not have to hide on the day of the great judgement and ye shall not be found as sinners, and the eternal 6 judgement shall be far from you for all the generations of the world.
1 Enoch [Chapter 103]
1 Now, therefore, I swear to you, the righteous, by the glory of the Great and Honoured and 2 Mighty One in dominion, and by His greatness I swear to you. I know a mystery
And have read the heavenly tablets,
And have seen the holy books,
And have found written therein and inscribed regarding them:
3 That all goodness and joy and glory are prepared for them,
And written down for the spirits of those who have died in righteousness,
...
[Chapter 108]
1 Another book which Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah and for those who will come after him, 2 and keep the law in the last days. Ye who have done good shall wait for those days till an end is made of those who work evil; and an end of the might of the transgressors. And wait ye indeed till sin has passed away, for their names shall be blotted out of the book of life and out of the holy books, and their seed shall be destroyed for ever, and their spirits[not the souls] shall be slain, and they shall cry and make lamentation in a place that is a chaotic wilderness, and in the fire shall they burn; for there is no earth there.
The sons of the Watchers [disembodied ,are the demons roaming earth till Jesus returns and has them gathered and thrown into the Lake of Fire] in their bodies got by fornication with daughters of Adam were never written in the book of Life and will never rise in their stolen Adam flesh bodies. They are the "rapha" of Scriptures, the dead who will never rise.
But all the sons of Adam will rise, either to the resurrection of life, or the resurrection of the second death [or else stand for judgment at His coming without ever dying in their bodies of flesh, but get cast whole in body and soul into the lake of Fire, as the goat Gentiles do, at His coming, and as those born in the Millennial reign who rebel against His authority do, at the end of the Millennium]] when they shall be cast into the lake of Fire, soul in body, minus the Adam spirit, where they will be the "never dying worms" who lose forever the opportunity to be made sons of God in the regeneration of the heavens and the earth, but are cast into the lake of Fire as rejected plants of earth, in their risen bodies; which bodies will never pass away, because Jesus died for all the seed of Adam, to atone for the first death, in Adam.
As I said in reply to the OP, every single seed to be born in Adam as an individual soul was designed and written in the Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
No one is written in that book who is not a seed of Adam. No one can be born of Adam if they are not written in that book.
Sinners can only get their names blotted out, as Scripture teaches, but not one single name is added to that book since the Book was written before the foundation of the world.
Jesus died for all who are written in that Book, but not all written in that Book will come to Him and be made clean, and adopted into His Name by His Living Spirit regenerating them in Spirit.
Every single soul who lives long enough to come to the age of accountability has the freewill choice of seeking the Light which lights them in the hopes they may seek and find Christ.
All souls who die before the age of accountability are atoned for, but dying before they can freely choose good or evil they have no condemnation, for there is no sin written against them, but they also have no rewards, and so no glory.
Al souls belong to YHWH, and Jesus Christ is YHWH come in flesh, and Jesus Christ has atoned for all souls written in that book of Life.
Only the demons, the sons of the Watchers and their sons and so on, were never written in that Book and shall never rise in their bodies.
Goliath was a seed of the Watchers, as a son of Anak, for instance, and he will never rise in his body of flesh, because the flesh was stolen from the Adam creation by means of the wives of the Watchers, who were daughters of Adam.
As I said in reply to the OP, every single seed to be born in Adam as an individual soul was designed and written in the Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
No one is written in that book who is not a seed of Adam. No one can be born of Adam if they are not written in that book.
Sinners can only get their names blotted out, as Scripture teaches, but not one single name is added to that book since the Book was written before the foundation of the world.
Jesus died for all who are written in that Book, but not all written in that Book will come to Him and be made clean, and adopted into His Name by His Living Spirit regenerating them in Spirit.
Every single soul who lives long enough to come to the age of accountability has the freewill choice of seeking the Light which lights them in the hopes they may seek and find Christ.
All souls who die before the age of accountability are atoned for, but dying before they can freely choose good or evil they have no condemnation, for there is no sin written against them, but they also have no rewards, and so no glory.
Al souls belong to YHWH, and Jesus Christ is YHWH come in flesh, and Jesus Christ has atoned for all souls written in that book of Life.
Only the demons, the sons of the Watchers and their sons and so on, were never written in that Book and shall never rise in their bodies.
Goliath was a seed of the Watchers, as a son of Anak, for instance, and he will never rise in his body of flesh, because the flesh was stolen from the Adam creation by means of the wives of the Watchers, who were daughters of Adam.
I didn't respond to you because I have very limited knowledge of the non-canonical scripture. But since you are so persistent...
I don't understand why you say these things. What is the age of accountability? Varies by individual... Weak. By age two a child can tell right from wrong. Would you send a two year old to hell or a 17 year old?
So what do you think of this, verse by verse:
Ps. 139:16: "Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." God knows who are his, even before they are born, everyone who lives is written in the book of life.
The Book of life- is a record of everyone born
Rev.13:8: "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."
Rev.20:12-15: "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."
You tell me what you think and we can go from there.
Those who have accepted Christ as their personal Savior and have not worshiped the AC or accepted the Mark, will be in the first resurrection. They are immediately given the GIFT of eternal lifeand will rule with Christ for 1000 years.
After the 1000 years are over, comes the second resurrection of the rest of mankind to stand before God in the Great White Throne Judgment. Books are opened and they will be judged according to their WORKS. Those whose names are not found in the Book of Life are cast into the Lake of Fire to die a second death, while the rest will be given eternal life.
Those who have accepted Christ as their personal Savior and have not worshiped the AC or accepted the Mark, will be in the first resurrection. They are immediately given the GIFT of eternal lifeand will rule with Christ for 1000 years.
After the 1000 years are over, comes the second resurrection of the rest of mankind to stand before God in the Great White Throne Judgment. Books are opened and they will be judged according to their WORKS. Those whose names are not found in the Book of Life are cast into the Lake of Fire to die a second death, while the rest will be given eternal life.
Yes that brings up a good point. If your salvation is not by works but by grace... then can you be judged as "unsaved" or "not saved" by works?
That doesn't make sense when compared to the rest of the teaching.
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