“And you, in putting them [departed souls] in heaven, hell, and purgatory, destroy the arguments wherewith Christ and Paul prove the resurrection . . . And again, if the souls be in heaven, tell me why they be not in as good [a] case as the angels be? And then what cause [or reason] is there of the resurrection?”
William Tyndale - 1530 (An Answer to Sir Thomas More’s Dialogue, Book 4, chap. 4).
DEATH
Genesis 2:7; Job 33:4
The BODY + God’s BREATH of Life = a Living PERSON (Soul)
Daniel 5:23; Job 27:3, 33:4
Our BREATH is in God’s hand. Placed in our ‘NOSTRILS’ we receive LIFE.
Romans 3:23, 6:23, 5:12 – Ezekiel 18:4; Ezekiel 18:20
All of man have SINNED & the wages for sin is DEATH.
Ecclesiastes 12:7; Psalm 104:29; Genesis 3:19
AT DEATH: The BODY – God’s BREATH of LIFE = a Dead Person (Soul)
Ecclesiastes 3:19-20; Genesis 7:15, 22
Man & ANIMAL have the same breath, die the same and go to the same place.
James 1:10-11, 4:14; Psalms 90:5-6; Ecclesiastes 9:12
Life is of short DURATION & then Death comes UNEXPECTEDLY.
Job 21:32, 30:23, 17:1, 17:13
At death man goes to the GRAVE and returns to the DUST.
John 11:11-14; Psalm 13:3; Deuteronomy 31:14, 16
This death is compared to a SLEEP.
Isaiah 38:10-11, 18-19; Psalm 115:17, Psalm 6:5
The dead have NO MEMORY of GOD and cannot PRAISE Him.
Psalm 146:4; Ecclesiastes 9:5-6, 10
The dead have no THOUGHTS or EMOTIONS and can’t do ANYTING.
John 11:25, 5:24; 1 John 3:14-15; Daniel 12:1-3
Our only HOPE & LIFE is in JESUS – He is our RESURRECTION.
John 5:28-29; Acts 24:15
There are TWO RESURRECTIONS – One for the CHRISTIANS [Life]
One for the WICKED [Judgment].
John 6:39-40, 44, 54; 1 Corinthians 15:22-23
The resurrection of the Christians takes place at the 2nd COMING.
Matthew 24:31; Ezekiel 37:1-14
The Resurrection is a COLLECTIVE & PHYSICAL event.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
We are to COMFORT each other with this TRUTH.
(c) Light in Darkness