{"id":46228,"date":"2022-10-01T02:15:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/death-is-not-a-period-but-a-comma-in-the-story-of-life-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:15:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:15:49","slug":"death-is-not-a-period-but-a-comma-in-the-story-of-life-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/death-is-not-a-period-but-a-comma-in-the-story-of-life-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Death Is Not A Period, But A Comma In The Story Of Life&#8221; &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Job 14:14, an intriguing question is asked, <strong><em>If a man die, shall he live again?<\/em><\/strong> Many answers to this question have been offered throughout the centuries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The following are just a few:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Men of science tell us that a person may live again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Men of philosophy tell us that every person hopes to live again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Men of ethics tell us that a person ought to live again (see second paragraph under Book 9, Chapter 4 heading).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Men of atheistic persuasion tell us that a person will never live again (scroll down to middle of page for a quote by Carl Sagan).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Men who believe in reincarnation say that a person will live again but in another form &#8211; not in his original form,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jesus told Martha,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die<\/strong><\/em> (John 11:25-26 NIV).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We only have to visit our local cemetery to realize that death is a fact of life  an event that every human will undergo (Hebrews 9:27). But we also need to realize that through the shed blood of Christ, we have the <strong>solid hope<\/strong> of eternal life (1 Peter 1:3-4).<\/p>\n<p>The following quote by Amos Traver echoes what our Lord told Martha regarding life and death:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<strong><em>Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed it is (Psalm 16:8-11; Psalm 17:13-15; Psalm 49:15; Psalm 73:23-26).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Job 14:14, an intriguing question is asked, If a man die, shall he live again? Many answers to this question have been offered throughout the centuries. The following are just a few: Men of science tell us that a person may live again. Men of philosophy tell us that every person hopes to live &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/death-is-not-a-period-but-a-comma-in-the-story-of-life-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Death Is Not A Period, But A Comma In The Story Of Life&#8221; &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}