Why all the fear about the the so-called "dead"? The Bible
uses the word in many ways. Like being "dead to sin", or apart from sin. Doesn't in fact our beliefs say that the spirit
remains very much ALIVE?
2006-08-09 13:49:07 · 5 answers · asked by Tegghiaio Aldobrandi 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Spiritually, dead means separated from God by sin. Yes, the spirit remains alive eternally. ...)(People tend to fear the unknown.
2006-08-09 13:55:45 · answer #1 · answered by MissKathleen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.... I guess part of the problem results from conflicts between the views of science, which carries excessive authority in our day and age, and spirituality. Thanks to the philosopher Descartes, science believes that mind/spirit is something completely apart from the body. Scientists are concerned with what can be seen, detected, measured, weight, etc. The notion of believing in something invisible and undetectable is alien to Western science (thanks to Aristotle for that one). Therefore, there's little doubt that the material, the body, dies. Science has left up to the "speculation" of religion, philosophy, spirituality, etc. anything beyond the material. Most of us are used to have our concept of self split...there's the material body and the ethereal mind. It's hard for most people to reconcile the two or to think of them as at least equivalent so that if body is no longer 'there' spirit still is. Therefore, in my own spiritual view, "dead" is appropriate for the body but the term is not applicable to spirit and higher aspects of soul. I'm a scientist but I believe it's ok to believe in things that cannot be proven scientifically. Other scientists think that if something's not objectively provable then it doesn't exist. That's their illusion.
2006-08-09 23:58:32 · answer #2 · answered by Archetypal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An insight is offered on this in the Book of Genesis:
God warned Adam and Eve that "On the day you eat of it" (i.e., the forbidden fruit of the tree of life), "you shall surely die." They did eat it, but didn't expire physically at that moment. The death came in the spiritual sense of being separated from God, hiding from God rather than seeking Him. Physical death was an eventuality resulting from this event, and has been a part of human existence ever since.
2006-08-09 20:55:59 · answer #3 · answered by Alex T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an inaccurate expression, but the condition is very real: 'spiritually dead'.
2006-08-09 20:56:03 · answer #4 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only works for those who actually believes in Christ
maybe the destination of the spirit after death
2006-08-09 20:54:28 · answer #5 · answered by firechap20 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋