Eternal life is not found in the OT.
The resurrection from the dead was spoken of in the Old Testament.
Read this and tell me what you think:
Job 19:26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
Don’t you think that scripture nullifies Preterism?
Notice Paul says "up to the present time".
70AD changed everything.
Believers no longer go to Abraham's bosom when they die, they go to the kingdom of God.
That is right. However, Job says after his skin has been destroyed, in his flesh he will see God.
Read what Daniel says:
Daniel 12:2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
When a person dies, their spirit did not go to the dust. Even you say the spirits went to Abraham’s bosom. The spirits either went to Abraham’s bosom, or to prison/Hell.
Daniel says those who sleep in the dust will awake to everlasting life. That sounds like a resurrection of the body.
I disagree, there is no such thing as a literal "new earth". The "new earth and new heavens" are the New Covenant, which we currently live in.
I know that is what Preterists teach, but it just does not fit for everything when speaking of a new earth and new heaven.
Our spirits go to be with Jesus after the death of our physical body---BUT we do not get a SPIRITUAL PHYSICAL BODY until Jesus comes again at the resurrection.
That doesn't make any sense.
If the resurrection is a yet future event, then our spirits would be body-less.
Of course, our spirits are body-less until the resurrection. Do you believe when we die we are given a body?
The resurrection happened in 70AD.
Prior to 70AD, believers had to go to Abraham's bosom, and wait for the resurrection.
There is a spiritual resurrection that happens before a physical resurrection, but those are two separate events. One is the first resurrection and the other is the second resurrection.
There is no reason to groan in the New Covenant. We are assured eternal life. There is no reason to fear the first death, Jesus said the following:
I said nothing about fear.
The whole creation still groans. Tell the animals and the whole creation it does not have to groan. Tell that to the aged and sick that they do not have to groan.
Romans 8:22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time. 23Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.…
Did you read that?
The scripture says we eagerly wait for the REDEMPTION of our bodies.
How do you get that we already have our bodies redeemed to us?
It is because of sin that God did not let us live forever.
Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."
With your beliefs, God does not give us what was taken away.
