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What Bible verse is Grace referring to?


When Grace and Mrs Mills are talking about the house being haunted Grace says something along the lines of "the living and the dead shall not meet until the end of days" Where in the Bible is this?

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Somewhere towards the back

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Somewhere between I fucked up creating humans and punish them because one of my angelic creations rebelled and instead of destroying him and starting from scratch I'll just punish the humans

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My son comes back and kills everyone because of the fuck up I made in the previous statement above.

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I think that the KJV is the place to look and I know that no literal phrase in it actually says this.
The whole resurrection, first of the people who had died for Christ or had kept faith and later of everyone else, is a part of the convoluted fever dream that is Revelation. (And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. etc...)

I would guess that what is said in the film is an interpretive phrase by a preacher or theologian based on Revelation.

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Grace is Catholic and wouldn't use the KJV. The Douay–Rheims Bible is what Catholics used in the 1940s

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Ah, well. I bet there's a searchable copy of that on line. I used to have to go through a (paper) concordance to find stuff. Best of luck.

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Hmmm, where does the Bible say "the living and the dead shall not meet until the end of days"?
There was a similar discussion on another site.

Much information in Psalms. Both Christ and Paul, as well as Peter, and even in James we see stated simple and easily understood things about what a human is, what death is, and what and when the final rewards and punishments are and take place. Just read the story of Lazarus and his resurrection. How is it he had nothing to say about his four days in heaven when he woke up? Look at what is stated verse by verse and the truth just jumps off the page. Jesus said, Lazarus is sleeping/ Lazarus is dead. Could not be more plain. Same with all of Paul’s writings, not just the few popular places people use to make him say something he never believed or taught. There is absolutely no conflict between Old and New Testaments on this subject, not if Scripture is compared with Scripture. Perfect harmony exists. We live and breathe, we die and expel our last breath, we're buried, generally, and "sleep" as the Bible calls it, waiting for the resurrections of life or the second death. It's not "soul sleep". That's back to a combination of Greek philosophy and misunderstanding of what the Bible teaches.
There's no such thing as ghosts sleeping....

A human is body- physical, soul - emotional, and spirit- intellectual. Study it out. All three elements of what a human being is must be made spiritual by being born again and living in harmony with God’s will. There are no ghosts inside humans that get out at death. Humans live, humans die, humans shall be resurrected. Moses and Elijah represented to us those who shall see eternal life because of what Christ did for the human race - those resurrected and those that shall be alive and translated when Christ returns.
https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-in-the-Bible-when-it-says-there-is-no-connection-between-the-living-and-the-dead

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