Funerals can give us the absolute most sobering snapshots of our lives, the reason, significance, and curtness of human life emerging from the shadows and bringing into sharp concentration. It's really at that time, for a short open-coffin seeing, that we see our fragility and that our nearsighted propensities are uncovered for what they are: negligible and insignificant.
Could our refusal to discuss passing really be unbelief - questioning that paradise holds a preferred life for us over this one? Or on the other hand is it just a question of a consideration shortage - being enraptured by movement and diverted by glossy items that group our contemplations toward impermanent, passing, disappearing things?
Could our refusal to discuss passing really be unbelief - questioning that paradise holds a preferred life for us over this one? Or on the other hand is it just a question of a consideration shortage - being enraptured by movement and diverted by glossy items that group our contemplations toward impermanent, passing, disappearing things?
Paraphrasing the next:
>> Paradise IS NOT:
> Paradise isn't currently. Some place on the planet, between 25 and thirty conflicts are being battled at this moment. That's all anyone needs to know.
> Paradise isn't a great fit for everybody. Certain individuals will not be there. I know that sounds unforgiving and selective, however it's reality. We'll get to this later.
> Paradise isn't charming and ethereal. I'm not making a decision about you in the event that you have Precious Moments dolls on your shelf or mantle; I'm trying to say paradise won't seem to be those. Nor will paradise look like what we find in kid's shows or motion pictures, where we float on mists and God is Morgan Freeman.
> Paradise isn't a perspective or a careless state. In certain types of Eastern idea, individuals seek to be freed from desires, outrage, and afflictive states. Nirvana is where there isn't anything and where nothing is gotten a handle on. Nonetheless, paradise isn't nirvana.
>> Damnation IS NOT
> Damnation is actually a major buzz-kill entertaining. Gary Larson's Far Side comics are frequently silly, yet what he portrays about paradise, and particularly about heck, are messed up. Nobody will at any point snicker in damnation.
> Damnation is definitely not an endurable inconvenience. Frequently we are directed to believe that damnation is only a messy hair day loosened up for quite a while. Or on the other hand something like this enters our thoughts: My life is damnation. Life can be troublesome, yet this life isn't the very thing that the Bible depicts as damnation.
> Damnation isn't only for Hitler and those Columbine shooters and perhaps a couple of something else. Lost Springs, Wyoming, brags a populace one. Jesus plainly showed a populace for damnation that is a lot more noteworthy than that of Lost Springs: "For wide is the door and expansive is the street that prompts obliteration, and many enter through it" (Matthew 7:13, NIV).
>> Paradise IS NOT:
> Paradise isn't currently. Some place on the planet, between 25 and thirty conflicts are being battled at this moment. That's all anyone needs to know.
> Paradise isn't a great fit for everybody. Certain individuals will not be there. I know that sounds unforgiving and selective, however it's reality. We'll get to this later.
> Paradise isn't charming and ethereal. I'm not making a decision about you in the event that you have Precious Moments dolls on your shelf or mantle; I'm trying to say paradise won't seem to be those. Nor will paradise look like what we find in kid's shows or motion pictures, where we float on mists and God is Morgan Freeman.
> Paradise isn't a perspective or a careless state. In certain types of Eastern idea, individuals seek to be freed from desires, outrage, and afflictive states. Nirvana is where there isn't anything and where nothing is gotten a handle on. Nonetheless, paradise isn't nirvana.
>> Damnation IS NOT
> Damnation is actually a major buzz-kill entertaining. Gary Larson's Far Side comics are frequently silly, yet what he portrays about paradise, and particularly about heck, are messed up. Nobody will at any point snicker in damnation.
> Damnation is definitely not an endurable inconvenience. Frequently we are directed to believe that damnation is only a messy hair day loosened up for quite a while. Or on the other hand something like this enters our thoughts: My life is damnation. Life can be troublesome, yet this life isn't the very thing that the Bible depicts as damnation.
> Damnation isn't only for Hitler and those Columbine shooters and perhaps a couple of something else. Lost Springs, Wyoming, brags a populace one. Jesus plainly showed a populace for damnation that is a lot more noteworthy than that of Lost Springs: "For wide is the door and expansive is the street that prompts obliteration, and many enter through it" (Matthew 7:13, NIV).
Death means “separation.” What happens when a person dies? Now technically, the scriptures speak of at least four kinds of death in relation to one's spirit, soul and body:
1. SPIRITUAL DEATH (Isa.59:2; Eph. 2:1)
This death is the SEPARATION of man from God because of sin. Briefly explain the fall of Adam (Gen. 2:16-17). One can be alive physically but dead spiritually (Matt. 8:22; I Tim. 5:6). A lost person may have a live body, live soul, but dead spirit! The good news is that a sinner can still escape spiritual death and be spiritually resurrected (Eph. 2:5). A man has a lifetime of opportunity to escape spiritual death.
2. PHYSICAL DEATH (Jas. 2:26; Gen. 35:18)
This death is the SEPARATION of the INWARD man from OUTWARD man (cf. Eph. 3:16; II Cor. 4:16). There is no escape from physical death except at the Rapture! But barring the Rapture in our lifetime, we will all die and there is no escape in spite of the amazing advancements by technology, science, and medicine. Our BODY of flesh is the outward man that dies, corrupts and returns to dust (Job 34:15). On the other hand, the SOUL is the inward man that is immortal and incorruptible. The BODY may be dead but the SOUL is alive forevermore in heaven (II Cor.5:8) or hell (Luke 16:23). No soul sleep but body sleep instead!
One may be dead physically but that is not the end of everything (Heb. 9:27). The Bible teaches that the SOUL is ever alive and conscious even when the BODY is dead! We get a foretaste of physical death when we sleep and dream!
3. ETERNAL DEATH (Luke 16:19-21; Ezek. 18:4)
This is the SEPARATION of the SOUL from the BODY and SPIRIT to be cast into hell. When the BODY dies, it returns to dust and the SPIRIT returns to God who gave it (Eccl. 12:7). When the body dies, there is no more second chance of salvation for then the SOUL is lost and condemned forever and ever. It will be separated from God ETERNALLY! Unlike spiritual death, eternal death is irreversible!
4. SECOND or FINAL DEATH (Rev. 20:15; 21:8)
This will take place AFTER the Millennium at the Great White Throne Judgment. Contrary to popular belief, the Last Judgment does not occur at the Second Coming of Christ but only after His literal 1000-year earthly reign (Rev. 20:5-6). (Summarize passage). At the Last Judgment, the dead will be physically resurrected which means that their bodies will again re-unite with their souls to face God – the Judge and give an account. The sea, the grave, death, and hell itself will give up ALL the bodies and souls in them to be judged.
Notice that this second death is the casting of both BODY and SOUL into the Lake of Fire (Matt. 10:28). The Bible teaches TWO hells – one below the earth which is temporary (Matt. 12:40; Acts 2:27, 31) and the other above the earth which is everlasting – the Lake of Fire which was prepared for the devil and His angels (Matt. 25:41). Hell itself will be cast into the Lake of Fire (Rev. 20:14) along with those who will perish after the Last Judgment.
The final death results in the casting into the Lake of Fire of all the “rubbish of the universe” – Satan and his unholy angels, death, hell, sin, and sadly, all who died without repenting of their sins and rejected Christ as Lord & Saviour!
Conclusion: The Lake of Fire in its final state will be thick darkness (Jude 13), unquenchable fire, torment, suffering, plus worms (Mark 9:44-48). Friend, life is short, death is sure, sin is a curse but Christ is the hope and cure (John 11:25). Do you have 100% assurance of salvation in Christ?
DEATH AS "SLEEP"
The Bible compares death to sleep more than fifty times. After death we are asleep, we are unconscious; we are not aware of the passing of time or of what is going on around us. That is what death is like as well. The Bible says, “for the living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing… their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished” (Ecclesiastes 9:5, NKJV, see also Psalm 146:4; 115:17).
It makes sense that after Lazarus was raised from the dead, he doesn’t share what he saw or experienced. He didn’t have anything to tell, except that once he was dead, and now he is alive! He didn’t experience hell or heaven. He was simply “sleeping” in his tomb. Peter on the Day of Pentecost said the same of King David. “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day…For David did not ascend into the heavens…"(Acts 2:29, 34).
WHAT CHRISTIANS BELIEVE ABOUT THE "SOUL"?
Many Christians think of the soul as an immortal entity within us that goes on living after death. What does the Bible say? Describing the creation of human beings in the beginning, the Bible says, “And 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, KJV). Other Bible translations say, “. . . and man became a living being” (NKJV; NIV). God did not put a soul into man.
He formed the body from the dust of the ground, and then He breathed His life-giving spirit into the lifeless body—and the result was a soul or a living being. When a person dies, the reverse takes place. The breath of life departs from the body, and the soul no longer exists. That’s what the Bible says. “The dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it” (Ecclesiastes 12:7, NIV). At the resurrection, God reunites the body and His life-giving spirit—and the person lives again.
If souls existed as separate entities that lived on after we died, that would mean we have immortality. However, the Bible says human beings do not have immortality. Only God is immortal (see 1 Timothy 6:15, 16). Paul says that the righteous “seek for glory, honor, and immortality” (Romans 2:7). If we had immortal souls, why would the righteous seek after something they already have?
This death is the SEPARATION of man from God because of sin. Briefly explain the fall of Adam (Gen. 2:16-17). One can be alive physically but dead spiritually (Matt. 8:22; I Tim. 5:6). A lost person may have a live body, live soul, but dead spirit! The good news is that a sinner can still escape spiritual death and be spiritually resurrected (Eph. 2:5). A man has a lifetime of opportunity to escape spiritual death.
2. PHYSICAL DEATH (Jas. 2:26; Gen. 35:18)
This death is the SEPARATION of the INWARD man from OUTWARD man (cf. Eph. 3:16; II Cor. 4:16). There is no escape from physical death except at the Rapture! But barring the Rapture in our lifetime, we will all die and there is no escape in spite of the amazing advancements by technology, science, and medicine. Our BODY of flesh is the outward man that dies, corrupts and returns to dust (Job 34:15). On the other hand, the SOUL is the inward man that is immortal and incorruptible. The BODY may be dead but the SOUL is alive forevermore in heaven (II Cor.5:8) or hell (Luke 16:23). No soul sleep but body sleep instead!
One may be dead physically but that is not the end of everything (Heb. 9:27). The Bible teaches that the SOUL is ever alive and conscious even when the BODY is dead! We get a foretaste of physical death when we sleep and dream!
3. ETERNAL DEATH (Luke 16:19-21; Ezek. 18:4)
This is the SEPARATION of the SOUL from the BODY and SPIRIT to be cast into hell. When the BODY dies, it returns to dust and the SPIRIT returns to God who gave it (Eccl. 12:7). When the body dies, there is no more second chance of salvation for then the SOUL is lost and condemned forever and ever. It will be separated from God ETERNALLY! Unlike spiritual death, eternal death is irreversible!
4. SECOND or FINAL DEATH (Rev. 20:15; 21:8)
This will take place AFTER the Millennium at the Great White Throne Judgment. Contrary to popular belief, the Last Judgment does not occur at the Second Coming of Christ but only after His literal 1000-year earthly reign (Rev. 20:5-6). (Summarize passage). At the Last Judgment, the dead will be physically resurrected which means that their bodies will again re-unite with their souls to face God – the Judge and give an account. The sea, the grave, death, and hell itself will give up ALL the bodies and souls in them to be judged.
Notice that this second death is the casting of both BODY and SOUL into the Lake of Fire (Matt. 10:28). The Bible teaches TWO hells – one below the earth which is temporary (Matt. 12:40; Acts 2:27, 31) and the other above the earth which is everlasting – the Lake of Fire which was prepared for the devil and His angels (Matt. 25:41). Hell itself will be cast into the Lake of Fire (Rev. 20:14) along with those who will perish after the Last Judgment.
The final death results in the casting into the Lake of Fire of all the “rubbish of the universe” – Satan and his unholy angels, death, hell, sin, and sadly, all who died without repenting of their sins and rejected Christ as Lord & Saviour!
Conclusion: The Lake of Fire in its final state will be thick darkness (Jude 13), unquenchable fire, torment, suffering, plus worms (Mark 9:44-48). Friend, life is short, death is sure, sin is a curse but Christ is the hope and cure (John 11:25). Do you have 100% assurance of salvation in Christ?
DEATH AS "SLEEP"
The Bible compares death to sleep more than fifty times. After death we are asleep, we are unconscious; we are not aware of the passing of time or of what is going on around us. That is what death is like as well. The Bible says, “for the living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing… their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished” (Ecclesiastes 9:5, NKJV, see also Psalm 146:4; 115:17).
It makes sense that after Lazarus was raised from the dead, he doesn’t share what he saw or experienced. He didn’t have anything to tell, except that once he was dead, and now he is alive! He didn’t experience hell or heaven. He was simply “sleeping” in his tomb. Peter on the Day of Pentecost said the same of King David. “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day…For David did not ascend into the heavens…"(Acts 2:29, 34).
WHAT CHRISTIANS BELIEVE ABOUT THE "SOUL"?
Many Christians think of the soul as an immortal entity within us that goes on living after death. What does the Bible say? Describing the creation of human beings in the beginning, the Bible says, “And 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, KJV). Other Bible translations say, “. . . and man became a living being” (NKJV; NIV). God did not put a soul into man.
He formed the body from the dust of the ground, and then He breathed His life-giving spirit into the lifeless body—and the result was a soul or a living being. When a person dies, the reverse takes place. The breath of life departs from the body, and the soul no longer exists. That’s what the Bible says. “The dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it” (Ecclesiastes 12:7, NIV). At the resurrection, God reunites the body and His life-giving spirit—and the person lives again.
If souls existed as separate entities that lived on after we died, that would mean we have immortality. However, the Bible says human beings do not have immortality. Only God is immortal (see 1 Timothy 6:15, 16). Paul says that the righteous “seek for glory, honor, and immortality” (Romans 2:7). If we had immortal souls, why would the righteous seek after something they already have?
"The study in the Hebrew Bible (original language) didn't find "hell" or "heaven" per the common belief. HOLY LAND MAN could not also find in the Bible a definite answer: is there life after death?” - Holy Land Man
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