{"id":1465,"date":"2021-09-17T08:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evangelicalfishersofmen.com\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2021-12-15T06:33:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T11:33:52","slug":"the-book-of-life-why-did-god-allow-us-to-know-about-it-and-what-are-we-supposed-to-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evangelicalfishersofmen.com\/home\/the-book-of-life-why-did-god-allow-us-to-know-about-it-and-what-are-we-supposed-to-do-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BOOK OF LIFE &#8211; WHY DID GOD ALLOW US TO KNOW ABOUT IT AND WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO ABOUT IT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Book of Life is\u00a0<b>a record written by God before<\/b> the creation of the world, listing people who will live forever in the kingdom of heaven. The term appears in both the Old Testament and New Testament. The Book of Life aims to be <b>the curation of the best and most helpful ideas in the area of emotional life<\/b>. Ultimately, life is only 700,000 hours long so we have to make sure the ideas we need don&#8217;t get lost \u2013 or take too long to find. The Book of Life redraws the sense of what a book is.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"aiovg-player-container\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"><div class=\"aiovg-player aiovg-player-iframe\" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/evangelicalfishersofmen.com\/home\/player-embed\/id\/1465\/?mp4=aHR0cHM6Ly9ldmFuZ2VsaWNhbGZpc2hlcnNvZm1lbi5jb20vd3AtY29udGVudC91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEvMDkvV2hlbi1hcmUtTmFtZXMtQmxvdHRlZC1PdXQtb2YtdGhlLUJvb2stb2YtTGlmZV8ubXA0&#038;poster=aHR0cHM6Ly9ldmFuZ2VsaWNhbGZpc2hlcnNvZm1lbi5jb20vd3AtY29udGVudC91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEvMDkvMzE1MDU4OTUzY2EzNzQzNTg5YjZlNGZjY2NlZWQ1OWQta2VhbnUtcmVldmVzLW1hdHJpeC1zcGlyaXQtc2NpZW5jZS5qcGc.&#038;autoplay=1\" title=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<h3>The Book of Life is referred to seven times in the\u00a0Book of Revelation\u00a0(3:5, 13:8, 17:8, 20:12, 20:15, 21:27, 22:19) one of the books of the\u00a0New Testament, attributed to\u00a0John of Patmos.<\/h3>\n<h3>As described, only those whose names are written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, and have not been blotted out by the\u00a0Lamb, are saved at the\u00a0Last Judgment; all others are doomed. &#8220;And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the\u00a0lake of fire&#8221; (<i>Rev.<\/i>\u00a020:15,\u00a0<a title=\"King James Version\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King_James_Version\">King James Version<\/a>). &#8220;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&#8221;. 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