Episode #29
When Does Eternal Life Begin? Elizabeth Reacts to Mark Driscoll’s View
In a recent conversation with Jeremy Boreing, Mark Driscoll said that “Eternal life begins the day you meet the Lord, not the day you die and stand before Him.” Is that what the Bible teaches? It depends on what Driscoll means. The Bible makes an important distinction between two kinds of life — and two kinds of death. We need to make the same distinction. I dig into several passages to understand when eternal life begins — and to see how the Bible distinguishes between spiritual life and literal life (and between spiritual death and literal death): John 5:24 Genesis 2:16-17 Genesis 3:6b-7, 21 John 3:7 1 John 3:14 1 Corinthians 15:51-54 Daniel 12:2 Acts 2:29, 34a Ecclesiastes 12:7 Job 4:17 Isaiah 56:1-2 To learn more about what scripture teaches about death, check out my series “ Death & Hell: What Does the Bible Say? ” The clip in this video is from “ Mark Driscoll: Scandal, Forgiveness, and the War for Young Men's Souls | Ep. 55 ” on Jeremy Boreing’s channel.
