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Hi Cheryl; Unless I miss my guess, Jesus spoke to the SPIRITUALLY dead every day. The common people, who drank in Christ’s parables, like water, but had a harder time when He got down to meat and potatoes doctrine. (Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no life in you). Dialogues with the religious leaders must’ve made Jesus wonder if it would make more sense for Him to try to preach to the Wailing Wall! 😉 Whereas, Lazarus, 4 days (physically) dead, was easier to reach than those with their education and pride in their education. So the next time a Calvinist insists that the spiritually dead are compatible with being physically dead, remind them that Jesus was able to reach a guy who hadn’t been breathing for three days. OUR PRIDE is the stumbling block. Not that God doesn’t want to reach us, but we have crammed our ears with our own views, accomplishments and desires. Physically dead people lack that problem. 🙂