That is why. "To encourage you to suffer death for Christ, know that is why the Good News was preached also to the Gentiles dead in sin (Ephesians 2:1), to make them know Christ; to those who had been judged and condemned to death in their physical existence as all men are judged (Romans 3:9); it was preached to them so that by the power of God, in their spiritual existence (as Christ now lives) they may live as God lives." This applies to both right now, and to eternity. [I have followed MacKnight on this.]

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