The Value of a Soul
- The resurrection is extremely valuable
- The value of a soul is too costly, and no payment is ever enough [Psa 49:8].
- Jesus says a soul is more costly than the entire world [Mat 16:26].
- This means the resurrection for each soul is more valuable than the entire earth.
- Each resurrected saint is worth more than the entire earth.
- The redemption is giving new glorious bodies.
- Power-wise, the resurrected body of each saint is more powerful than this entire world [Eph 1:17-20].
- Since God gives each saint power greater than the earth at the resurrection, then:
- The least among us has power over the earth
- Why would one have the power to create things if he is not to create?
- Is the power to create just for bringing us back to life? Is there not more?
- God did not just make Esther queen because He wanted the king to have a new wife, but because He wanted to save Israel. In the same way, God gives us the resurrection – with the power that accompanies it, the power greater than the world – for a purpose beyond the resurrection; a purpose beyond this world.
- God gives us creation power (seeing as our bodies are more powerful than the earth), perhaps because He needs us to use creation power.
- God said Abraham’s seed would be as countable as the stars of heaven. Meaning, not just that they would be innumerable, but also that they will shine like the stars – as Daniel’s prophecy confirms [Gen 15:5; Dan 12:2-3].