The entire time this passage has been rolling around in my mind. 'And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.' ~ Most go all creepy on me hear, but what I understand is, that this is actually pretty cool, cause Jesus is saying that all of us get to live forever, the evil get to live in that state forever and ever, pretty gloomy dark and lonely, as is the case of how evil people end, but it will never end, infinity of evil.....woh, not cool. The other is something that is not emphasized enough, 'they that have done good' ~ eternal, infinite life ~ in Greek the term for life is Zoe...which is the fullness of the life of Christ...whew, that is .....incomprehensible. The choice certainly has always been there, for me certainly, either I can live in an evil way or a good way.....it is important I believe that one makes that choice as early as possible in life, so as to gaurantee a good reception in the afterlife. Either Zoe [2222] or evil.....I must look that up in the Greek : [5337] I use a thing called a lexical aid to the New Testament, in the back of my bible, most useful for the original meaning of a word - evil - Phaulos., vile, refuse, wicked, evil : foul. Someone or something good-for-nothing, from which nothing good can come; worthless, mediocre, unimportant. Distinguished from kakos [2556], bad, and poneros [4190], malevolent [John 3:20;5:29;Titus 2:8; James 3:16]. I hope I have not bored you. Selah.
