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WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT DEATH\n\nJesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. He did so with regard to Lazarus, a man whom he knew well and who had died. Jesus told his disciples: “Lazarus our friend has gone to rest.” The disciples thought that Jesus meant that Lazarus was resting in sleep, recovering from an illness. They were wrong. Jesus explained: “Lazarus has died.” (John 11:11-14) Notice that Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. Lazarus was not being reborn as another human. He was at rest in death, as though in a deep sleep without dreams. Other scriptures also compare death to sleep. For example, when the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote about some in his day who had “fallen asleep” in death.—1 Corinthians 15:6.\n\nLEARNING FROM THE RESURRECTION ACCOUNTS\n\nThe Bible teaches that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” They are not alive and have no conscious existence anywhere. The account of Lazarus confirms this. Upon returning to life, did Lazarus thrill people with descriptions of heaven? Or did he terrify them with horrible tales about a burning hell? No. The Bible contains no such words from Lazarus. During the four days that he was dead, he had been “conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Lazarus had simply been sleeping in death.—John 11:11.\nKing James Bible\nJohn 11:11  These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.\n\nActs 7:60  And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.\n\nKing David said this:  Psalms 13:3  Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;\n\nDeuteronomy 31:16  And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers;\n2 Samuel 7:12  And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers,\n1 Kings 1:21  Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers,\nJeremiah 51:39  In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.\nActs 13:36  For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:\n1 Thessalonians 4:14  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
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There are a lot of voices vying for our attention, so why should anyone consider Jesus above, say, Muhammad or Confucius, Buddha, or Charles Taze Russell, or Joseph Smith? After all, don't all roads lead to Heaven? Aren't all religions basically the same? The truth is all religions do not lead to Heaven just as all roads do not lead to Indiana.\n\n \n\nJesus alone speaks with the authority of God because Jesus alone conquered death. Muhammad, Confucius, and the others molder in their graves to this very day, but Jesus, by His own power, walked away from the tomb three days after dying on a cruel Roman cross. Anyone with power over death deserves our attention. Anyone with power over death deserves to be heard.\n\n \n\nThe evidence supporting the resurrection of Jesus is overwhelming. First, there were over five hundred eye-witnesses of the risen Christ! That is a lot of eye-witnesses. Five hundred voices cannot be ignored. There is also the matter of the empty tomb; the enemies of Jesus could have easily stopped all talk of the resurrection by producing His dead, decaying body, but there was no dead body for them to produce! The tomb was empty! Could the disciples have stolen His body? Hardly. To prevent such a contingency, the tomb of Jesus had been heavily guarded by armed soldiers. Considering His closest followers had fled in fear at His arrest and crucifixion, it is most unlikely this ragtag band of frightened fishermen would have gone head to head against trained, professional soldiers. The simple fact is that the resurrection of Jesus cannot be explained away!
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All people will have the opportunity to choose.\n\nInterestingly enough the NT talks of baptism for the dead.\n\nsee 1 Cor chapter 15\n29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead crise not at all? why are they then baptized for the ddead?\n\ndo any religons believe in doing this? I know only of one
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First I am very sorry to hear of your loss I know how much it hurts. I don't know how your nephew died or the circumstances, I would like to tell you where he is, but that is up to an all loving Father who is full of mercy and grace. \nOur bodies sleep, the reason why we say "sleep" is because death is not permanent. On the last day it will be raised. The reason why the bible says "the dead know nothing" is because our bodies have no conscience once our spirit leaves no passage of time it is no longer alive it is an empty shell. Our soul awaits for the last day with Christ or away from him. Our spirits return to God who made it. Ecc 12:7\nAgain I pray for the peace of Christ through His Holy Spirit\nfor you and your whole family. Messenger
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First of all, you do not have and immortal soul, if you did, then why had no one gone to Heaven before Jesus came to the Earth, 4000 years had came & gone since Adam & Eve, millions of people had died, what did Jesus say to a man of the Pharisees, Nic·o·de'mus was his name, a ruler of the Jews.\n\nJohn 3:13\nMoreover, no man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man.\n\nJesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. He did so with regard to Lazarus, a man whom he knew well and who had died. Jesus told his disciples: “Lazarus our friend has gone to rest.” The disciples thought that Jesus meant that Lazarus was resting in sleep, recovering from an illness. They were wrong. Jesus explained: “Lazarus has died.” (John 11:11-14) Notice that Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. Lazarus was not being reborn as another human. He was at rest in death, as though in a deep sleep without dreams. Other scriptures also compare death to sleep. For example, when the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote about some in his day who had “fallen asleep” in death.  1 Corinthians 15:6.\n\n\nThe Bible teaches that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” They are not alive and have no conscious existence anywhere. The account of Lazarus confirms this. Upon returning to life, did Lazarus thrill people with descriptions of heaven? Or did he terrify them with horrible tales about a burning hell? No. The Bible contains no such words from Lazarus. During the four days that he was dead, he had been “conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Lazarus had simply been sleeping in death.  John 11:11.\nThe account of Lazarus also teaches us that the resurrection is a reality, not a mere myth. Jesus raised Lazarus in front of a crowd of eyewitnesses. Even the religious leaders, who hated Jesus, did not deny this miracle. \n\nThink about this too: If Lazarus had been in heaven for those four days, would he not have said something about it?—  And if he had been in heaven, would Jesus have made him come back to earth from that wonderful place?   Of course not!\n\nYet, many people say that we have a soul, and they say that the soul lives on after the body dies. They say that Lazarus’ soul was alive somewhere. But the Bible does not say that. It says that God made the first man Adam “a living soul.” Gen. 2:7,  Adam was a soul. The Bible also says that when Adam sinned, he died. He became a “dead soul,” and he returned to the dust from which he had been made. The Bible also says that all Adam’s offspring inherited sin and death too.\n\nThe Scriptural teaching of the resurrection, however, is not compatible with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. If an immortal soul survived death, no one would need to be resurrected, or brought back to life. Indeed, Martha expressed no thought about an immortal soul that was living on elsewhere after death. She did not believe that Lazarus had already gone to some spirit realm to continue his existence. On the contrary, she showed her faith in God’s purpose to reverse the effects of death. She said: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:23, 24) Likewise, Lazarus himself related no experiences of some afterlife. There was nothing to report.\n\nClearly, according to the Bible, the soul dies and the remedy for death is the resurrection. You enjoy the best sleep ever, until Jesus resurrects you, sometime in the future.
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The fact is that there is no Bible command for or against either burial or cremation. Well in the Bible the pronounced dealing with the dead one was Burial! Increasing numbers of people have been turning to cremation to reduce the cost of burial! So in case you too are concerned!\n\nWhat Is the Scriptural View?\nIn a pronouncement against “the king of Babylon,” the prophet Isaiah said: “You have been thrown away without a burial place for you.” (Isaiah 14:4, 19) Should the scattering of ashes be compared to such a case of humiliation? No, for there is no reference to cremation and the preservation or the scattering of the resulting ashes.\n\nJesus Christ spoke of the earthly resurrection of the dead that will take place during his Millennial Reign when he said: “All those in the memorial tombs will hear [my] voice and come out.” (John 5:28, 29) However, that a specific grave is not necessarily required to resurrect a person is borne out in another prophetic description of the resurrection. Revelation 20:13 states: “The sea gave up those dead in it, and death and Hades gave up those dead in them.” So, what matters is not where or how a person ‘returns to dust.’ Rather, it is whether he is remembered by God and is resurrected. (Job 14:13-15; compare Luke 23:42, 43.) God certainly does not need impressive tombs to help him remember people. Cremation does not prevent a person’s resurrection. And if the scattering of ashes is done with a proper motive and without false religious ceremonies, it would not be incompatible with the Scriptures.\n\nActually, modern cremation is somewhat comparable to the actions of the men of Jabesh-gilead after they rescued the bodies of King Saul and his sons from the Philistines. They took the bodies to “Jabesh and burned them there. Then they took their bones and buried them.” (1 Sam. 31:12, 13) Faithful David did not consider their burning the corpses as shameful. It was part of a respectful disposing of the dead.—2 Sam. 2:4-7.\n\nAdditionally, the Bible plainly shows that it matters not whether a dead body is returned to dust rapidly by fire or gradually by decay. Either way God’s words are true: “For dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Gen. 3:19) It certainly is not as if God needs a mummy in order to resurrect a person. The apostle Paul taught that a person resurrected to heaven will be given a new body, so that he is “changed” from the fleshly body that disintegrated. He showed that ‘God gives to each one a body just as it pleases him.’ (1 Cor. 15:35-49) It will be similar with those resurrected to life on earth in the New Order. God will be able to provide adequate human bodies no matter how their former bodies disintegrated, whether rapidly by fire or slowly by decay.\n\nDefinitely God’s Word does recommend that the body of a dead loved one be dealt with in a dignified, respectful way. But whether a family, for emotional, economic or other reasons, will have a deceased loved one cremated or not is a personal matter.
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NO.  The dead can not do anything.\n\nWhere are the dead?\n\nGen. 3:19: “In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.”\n\nEccl. 9:10: “All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [“the grave,” KJ, Kx; “the world of the dead,” TEV], the place to which you are going.”\n\nWhat is the condition of the dead?\n\nEccl. 9:5: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.”\n\nPs. 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts [“thoughts,” KJ, 145:4 in Dy; “all his thinking,” NE; “plans,” RS, NAB] do perish.”\n\nJohn 11:11-14: “‘Lazarus our friend has gone to rest, but I am journeying there to awaken him from sleep.’ . . . Jesus said to them outspokenly: ‘Lazarus has died.’” (Also Psalm 13:3)\n\nIs there some part of man that lives on when the body dies?\n\nEzek. 18:4: “The soul [“soul,” RS, NE, KJ, Dy, Kx; “man,” JB; “person,” TEV] that is sinning—it itself will die.”\n\nIsa. 53:12: “He poured out his soul [“soul,” RS, KJ, Dy; “life,” TEV; “himself,” JB, Kx, NAB] to the very death.” (Compare Matthew 26:38.)\n\nSee also the main headings “Soul” and “Spirit.”\n\nAre the dead in any way able to help or to harm the living?\n\nEccl. 9:6: “Their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.”\n\nIsa. 26:14: “They are dead; they will not live. Impotent in death, they will not rise up.”\n\nNow there are demons and that's something else.
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The answer to that question can be found in 2 Corinthians 4:4: "The god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers...."\n\nSome additional information is at 2 Timothy 4:3 - : “There will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled.”\n\nOh, and one more point: Ezekial 18:4 & 20 say that "The SOUL that sins WILL DIE." Of course the context refers to the fact that we are all responsible for our own actions, but the end result for sin is that death of the soul. One cannot get around it.\n\nDeath is unconsciousness, according to Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6 and Psalm 146:4.
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I don't know if this helps but it is the the notes\nfrom "Clarke" in e-sword\nPraying God blesses u in ur search for answers....\nShaz\nx x x x x x\n\n1 Cor 15:29 - \nElse what shall they do which are baptized for the dead - This is certainly the most difficult verse in the New Testament; for, notwithstanding the greatest and wisest men have labored to explain it, there are to this day nearly as many different interpretations of it as there are interpreters. I shall not employ my time, nor that of my reader, with a vast number of discordant and conflicting opinions; I shall make a few remarks:\n1.The doctrine of the resurrection of our Lord was a grand doctrine among the apostles; they considered and preached this as the demonstration of the truth of the Gospel.\n2.The multitudes who embraced Christianity became converts on the evidence of this resurrection.\n3.This resurrection was considered the pledge and proof of the resurrection of all believers in Christ to the possession of the same glory into which he had entered.\n4.The baptism which they received they considered as an emblem of their natural death and resurrection. This doctrine St. Paul most pointedly preaches, Rom_6:3-5 : Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead, even so we also should walk in newness of life: for, if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in his resurrection.\n5.It is evident from this that all who died in the faith of Christ died in the faith of the resurrection; and therefore cheerfully gave up their lives to death, as they took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing in themselves that they had in heaven a better and an enduring substance, Heb_10:34.\n6.As is the body, so are the members; those who were properly instructed, and embraced Christianity, believed that as all who had died in the faith of Christ should rise again, so they were baptized in the same faith.\n7.As so many of the primitive followers of Christ sealed the truth with their blood, and Satan and his followers continued unchanged, every man who took on him the profession of Christianity, which was done by receiving baptism, considered himself as exposing his life to the most imminent hazard, and offering his life with those who had already offered and laid down theirs.\n8.He was therefore baptized in reference to this martyrdom; and, having a regard to those dead, he cheerfully received baptism, that, whether he were taken off by a natural or violent death, he might be raised in the likeness of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, and that of his illustrious martyrs.\n9.As martyrdom and baptism were thus so closely and intimately connected, βαπτιζεσθαι, to be baptized, was used to express being put to a violent death by the hands of persecutors. So Mat_20:22, Mat_20:23 : “But Jesus answered and said, Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of? etc.” (Can ye go through my sufferings?) “They say unto him, We are able. He saith unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of my cup,” (ye shall bear your part of the afflictions of the Gospel), “and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with (that is, ye shall suffer martyrdom.) See also Mar_10:38. So Luk_12:50; “I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!” That is, I must die a violent death for the salvation of men.\n10.The sum of the apostle’s meaning appears to be this: If there be no resurrection of the dead, those who, in becoming Christians, expose themselves to all manner of privations, crosses, severe sufferings, and a violent death, can have no compensation, nor any motive sufficient to induce them to expose themselves to such miseries. But as they receive baptism as an emblem of death in voluntarily going under the water, so they receiv
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In order to understand death we have to let the Bible speak for itself which is why In the following answer there is a text to back every statement\n\nI was listening to a sermon recently in which the pastor talked about this subject. Talking about death we should look at how life was created \n\nAnd the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. - Genesis 2:7\n\nFrom this we see that the soul is the combination of both the breath of God and the physical body.\n\nSo what happens when you die?\n\n1) In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.- Genesis 3:19 \n\n2) And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. - Luke 23:46\n\n3) Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it. - Ecclesiastes 12:5\nFrom these scriptures we see that when you die the two components of the soul either decay (the physical body) or goes back to God (the spirit)\n\nMany people believe that the spirit is some intangible ghostlike substance but if you look at what the bible says\n\nAll the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils - Job 27:3\n\nFrom this we see that the spirit is the Breath of Life not a … ghost (for lack of a better word)\n\n\n\nDo the dead go directly to heaven or hell?\n\nPsalms 115:17 The dead praise not the Lord. \nPsalms 6:5 In death there is no remembrance of thee. \nIsaiah 38:18 Death can not celebrate thee. \nPsalms 146:4 His thoughts perish.\nJob 21:32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.\nEcclesiastes  9:5  For the living know that they shall die; but the dead do not know anything, nor do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.\n\nFrom these verses we see that there is no thought in death\n\nSome may argue that these are all Old Testament examples of the teaching of death so let’s look at the New Testament \n\nJesus speaking about the death of Lazarus \nThese things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. John 11:11-14\n\nMatthew 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose\n\n1 Thessalonians 4:15 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.\n\n1 Thessalonians 4:14 Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.\n\nIf we look at what Jesus said on the cross in Luke 23:43\nAnd Jesus said to him, Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.\n\nMany use this to prove the point that we go directly to our reward. The problem is in the Greek there was not a comma, the comma was placed centuries later by people who believed that we go directly to our reward. If you move the comma it conforms to the rest of scripture\n\nAnd Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you today, you will be with Me in Paradise.”\n\nRead what happens on Sunday morning and Jesus tells Mary he did not ascend to heaven yet.\n\nBut doesn’t the Bible say to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord?\n\nAs I mentioned above the Bible says we do not go directly to heaven or hell. I think we should look at 2 Corinthians 5, but rather than only looking at verse 8 lets look at the whole chapter in order to gain better perspective. If you read the whole text we see Paul talking about three states of being. In chapter 1 Paul writes 1) our earthly house {our earthly bodies} 2) a building of God, an hou
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that question has been ask as long as the answer  and no one knows for sure. for each religion you will get  a different answer.  the bible tells us that we inter a state of sleep  now i dont know about you but when i sleep i dream  so maybe death is like a dream intell we are given our new bodies when christ returns . then we are judged and either sent to heaven or the lake of fire. there are many  verse in the bible that help us or make it more confusing to us what happens after death  like job14:21 his sons come to honor and he knoweth it not ; and they are brought low , but he perceiveth it not of them .  and like the rich man and lazerous  in luke16:19-31.  and then in ecclesiastes 9:5-10 are just a few passages in the holy bible .   now there are things in this world that cant be explain and ghost are one of them  we have been ghost hunting for sometime now off and on and gotten some very interresting things like picturs of vortexs  apperition  and lots of orbs and dust . evps (electroniec voice phonamanon)  tapes  upoin tapes of voices that shouldnt be there .  which i HIGHLY suggest that you dont ghost hunt your self  inless you are ready for the consaqunces of ghost hunting   cuz some times you bring your work home with you lol  if you know what i mean . but my opion  in what happens to us when we die is that we go into a sleeplike state in the form of a orb (intell jesus come back to take us home ) in which we float around and some one takes oue picture and arugues with their friends that we ant a speck of dust  that was close to the lens of the camera.  just be careful on how you try to get your answer  cuz your work will follow  you home,.   and besides it ant death that we should be seeking answers for its  everlasting life and how do i get it  hopes this helps may the peace of the lord jesus be with you and your familky always
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Joseph’s Prospects\n\nThe Scriptures are silent about the death of Joseph. But it is noteworthy that Mark 6:3 called Jesus “the son of Mary,” not Joseph. This indicates that Joseph was then dead. Moreover, if Joseph had lived until 33 C.E., it is unlikely that the impaled Jesus would have entrusted Mary to the care of the apostle John.—John 19:26, 27.\n\nJoseph, then, will be among the dead who will hear the voice of the Son of man and come forth in a resurrection. (John 5:28, 29) Learning of Jehovah’s provision for eternal life, undoubtedly Joseph will gladly avail himself of it and will be an obedient subject of the great heavenly King, Jesus Christ, even as he heeded divine direction over 1,900 years ago.\n\nStop & think, if Joseph went to Heaven when he passed away in death, then why do we speak of the Resurrection that is suppose to take place after Jesus comes again, in other words, if you go to Heaven or Hell when you die, you have nullified the Resurrection and have  made the Scriptures to be nothing but a lie.  Not only that, but the Heavenly Hope did not come about until after Jesus died and ascended to Heaven.\n\n4000 years had come and gone since Adam & Eve's creation and what did Jesus say about anyone going to Heaven:  \n\nJohn 3:13  Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man\n\nOut of all of the millions of people that had lived & died before Jesus came, none of them had & immortal soul, none of them went to Heaven.\n\nJesus described death as being in a deep sleep, so Joseph is sleeping & will be resurrected sometime in the future.\n\n
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Spirit body and soul.\n\nDEATH AND HELL\n\nPsa.23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the SHADOW of death, I will fear no evil: for\nThou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.\n\nFlesh death of the body is a SHADOW of death, a silhouette or likeness of the second death.\n\nHeb.9:27 And as it is appointed unto men ONCE to die, but after this the judgment:\n\nIf you are already dead why then after this the judgment?\n\nMatt.10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather\nfear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.\n\nFear (revere) God Who can destroy both soul and spiritual body, that is second death.\n\nI Cor.15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and\nthere is a spiritual body.\n\nThere is a flesh body and a spiritual body.\n\nII Cor.5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: II Cor.5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) II Cor.5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.\n\nAbsent from the flesh body, present with the Lord.\n\nEcc.12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Ecc.12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God Who gave it.\n\nThe spiritual body and soul return to God.\n\nI Cor.15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall\nhave put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is\nswallowed up in victory.\n\nThe second death is what Christ paid the price for. Until the mortal puts on immortality he is still considered dead or liable to die the second death.\n\nEzek.18:4 Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. \n\nAll souls are God’s. The verdict for sin is the second death.\n\nHeb.2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; \n\nGod through flesh death paid the price for the second death. Satan already sentenced to the second death has be defeated. Satan can’t say we deserve the same verdict.\n\nRev.2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that\novercometh shall not be hurt of the second death.\n\nThose who overcome Satan become immortal, the first resurrection.\n\nRev.20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. \n\nThe rest of the dead, that is mortal souls, missed the first resurrection, that is immortality, until the thousand years are finished.\n\nRev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. \n\nA thousand years, a time of teaching by those who had part in the first resurrection.\n\nRev.20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from Whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. Rev.20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which wer
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In answer to # 1' \nDeath of Voluntary\nMatt. 26:24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him:\nMatt. 26:54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?\n\nPoint #2.\n1 Thess. 5:9 God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ . Who died for us that, whatever we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
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God's only spoken commandment in the bible is "be you perfect even as I am perfect"\nwhy do you think our souls are eternal? its going to take a loooooooooooooooong time to reach spiritual perfection but it is never too late to start.
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In the book of First Corinthians, chapter 15, Paul talks about the resurrection and the resurrected body. In verses 35 and following, he states that the heavenly body will be different from the natural body, with some stark contrasts. Whereas our earthly body is characterized by mortality (being susceptible to death), our resurrected body will be characterized by immortality (not susceptible to death). Likewise while our earthly body is susceptible to decay (corruption), it will become incorruptible (1 Corinthians 15:53). Also, where our natural bodies are prone to weakness (ask anyone who has reached 40 years of age or older), our resurrected bodies will be characterized by strength (verse 43).\n\n \n\nAnother comparison that is made is that now we have a natural body, then we will have a spiritual body. I don’t believe that this means that we will be like ghosts possessing no body at all and floating around unable to interact with things around us. After all, verse 49 states that we will have a body like Jesus’ resurrected body (see also 1 John 3:2). And Jesus, after His resurrection, told them to touch Him and to watch Him eat, demonstrating that He was not merely a spirit (Luke 24:37-43). Rather, I believe that a natural body is that which is fitted for this present life in our present physical universe, whereas the spiritual body we will possess will be that which will best suit us for the eternal existence we were destined for in Christ in our eternal abode. Jesus’ resurrected body was capable of entering locked rooms at will (John 20:19). Our earthly body limits us in ways (and/or dimensions) that our spiritual body will not.\n\n \n\n1 Corinthians 15:43 also describes the transformation from “sown in dishonor” to “raised in glory.” Philippians 3:21 says that Jesus “...will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body...” I believe that our decaying bodies are described with the word “dishonor” because of they bear the mark of the results of sin. We can all likely picture in our minds the lungs of one who has ruined his health through smoking, or a brain that is no longer able to form complete thoughts because of drug abuse. In the same way, the decaying physical body is the direct result of man’s sinfulness. Had there been no sin, there would be no decay and death (1 Corinthians 15:56). But God, through Christ’s transforming power, is able to raise up His children in Christ with new glorious bodies, no longer bearing any effects of sin, being completely free from the ravages of sin and possessing the glory of Christ instead.\n\n \n\nNow, to answer your question, we are not told exactly what we will look like in the next life, as to what age we will appear to be, nor if we will look thin or fat. But while many believe that we will bear some resemblance to what we look like now (based on the analogy each seed bears its own type of plant, i.e., a corn seed produces a corn plant) (see 1 Corinthians 15:37-38), we do know that in whatever ways our appearance or health has been altered as a result of sin (whether because of overeating or not eating right, hereditary malformations, injuries, aging, etc.), these traits will not be carried over into our appearance or health in the next life. More importantly, the sin nature, inherited from Adam (Romans 5:12) will no longer be with us, for we will be made after the holiness of Christ (1 John 3:2). Because we have this sure hope in Christ in the next life, we are encouraged to purify ourselves now, even as He is pure (1 John 3:3).