Jesus to Martha: (whose brother had just died): "Your brother shall rise again".
Martha: "I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day."
Jesus: "I am the Resurrection and the ZOE! (the life).
He who believes in Me, though he die, yet he shall be ZAO (he shall be alive again)."
(The resurrection of the dead renders the one who died alive again):
"And whoever is ZAO (alive) (again) and believes in Me shall never die." (John 11:23-26):
"I am the first and the last: I am he that ZAO (I am He that is alive)
and was dead; and, behold,
I am ZAO (alive) to the Ages of the ages [Greek the aeons of the aeons],
Amen; and I have the keys of hades and of death." (Revelation 1:18).
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Romans 14:9
--- "For this reason Christ died [apothnesko] and rose again from the dead [anistemi], and lived again [anazao: lived again in a body that is not dead], so that he may be the Lord of both the dead [nekros] and living [zao: those who are alive in a body that is not dead]." ---
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Did you know that the New Testament makes a very clear distinction between life [zoe], and living | being alive [zao]?
The churches' conflation of zoe with zao:
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25 ".. He who believes in Me, though he die, yet he shall be spiritually alive. 26 And whoever is spiritually alive and believes in Me shall be spiritually alive forever and ever. Do you believe this?"
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The above eisegesis (putting into the text a meaning that is not there) completely takes the following away from the context:
Jesus to Martha: (whose brother had just died): "Your brother shall rise again".
Martha: "I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection [anastasis] at the last day."
Jesus: "I am the Resurrection [anastasis] and the ZOE! (the life). He who believes in Me, though he die, yet he shall live (ZAO: he shall be alive)."
Compare the above with:
"If Christ's Spirit is in you,
(1) your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit (of Christ) is your (eternal) life [zoe] because of (Christ's) righteousness. (Romans 8:10)
(2) Moreover, if the Spirit of the one who raised [egeiro] Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised [egeiro] Christ from the dead will also quicken [zōopoiéō] your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you." (Romans 8:11).
The result of Christ's Spirit in a human being quickening the dead body (making it alive again) is the resurrection of the body from the dead when Christ returns.
-- "When Christ, who is our life [zōḗ], shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3:4) --
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