If "The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing,"?

Question

(According to Ecc 9:5 (KJV) ) Then what difference does it make if you go to hell or to heaven when you die?

Answer 1

WE DIE???? Since when??? Heaven and Hell whats that all about???O the dread..........The dead, the vampires the poeple of the night.........I'm never dieing! so there!

Answer 2

This Scripture has been used to disprove the existence of hell or an afterlife (heaven does exist, because that is where God and the angels live). But as for someone posessing a soul that goes on to an afterlife in one of those places, this Scripture states that the dead are just that: dead.

Answer 3

I believe that you don't go straight to heaven or hell once you die--you stay in the grave, hence, the "dead know nothing" part. Once Jesus comes, however, we will all be resurrected and those who are living as well, will be judged as to whether or not they go to heaven or hell. THEN they go... Thank goodness for the 2nd coming!

Answer 4

ROFLMAO
Go to a grave yard dig someone up and have a talk with them, see what they know, ask them if it is now day or night, see if they know that much!

This is what it is talking about! They are dead and the dead know nothing.

Seek rather the living in Christ!

Answer 5

The dead are asleep in death, this is why in Col. 1:18 Christ is called the "first in everything, the firstborn from the dead, that he might become the one who is first in all things; (including raised to heaven) so just look up the 4 different words used for Hell in the Bible before this:

When you die, you die, i.e., Jesus Christ died and went to Hell for 3 days and was resurrected, however he was DEAD and knew nothing, he was not burning in eternal fires. Christ Jesus also promised his followers a resurrection, and this is ALSO WHERE everyone who DIED BEFORE CHRIST is resting, waiting for their resurrections. Read below: For one thing, the scriptures speak of 4 hells, plus the “Lake of Fire” in Rev. 20:14.

#1. Hades
#2. Gehenna
#3. Sheol
#4. Tartarus
#5. The Lake of Fire

#1 HADES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades

The unseen world, translated hell in A.V., Matt. 11:23; 16:18; Luke 10:15; 16:23; Acts 2:27,31; Rev. 1:18; 6:8; 20:13,14. See Hell. Eventually, came to designate the abode of the dead.

#2 GEHENNA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna

Gehenna' is a word tracing to Greek, ultimately from Hebrew: גי(א)-הינום Gêhinnôm (also Gei ben-Hinnom (Hebrew: גיא בן הינום) meaning the Valley of Hinnom. The valley, which forms the southern border of ancient Jerusalem, is first mentioned in Joshua 15:8. Originally it referred to a garbage dump in a deep narrow valley right outside the walls of Jerusalem (in modern-day Israel) where fires were kept burning to consume the refuse and keep down the stench. It is also the location where bodies of executed criminals, or individuals denied a proper burial, would be dumped. Today, "Gehenna" is often used as a synonym for Hell.

#3. SHEOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheol

Sheol (שאול) is the Hebrew language word denoting the "abode of the dead"; the "underworld", "the common grave of mankind" or "pit". It is also transliterated Sheh-ole, in Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries and Strong's Concordances. In the Hebrew Bible it is portrayed as a comfortless place beneath the earth, beyond gates, where both the bad and the good, slave and king, pious and wicked must go after death to sleep in silence and oblivion in the dust. In some sources, for example in Deuteronomy 32:22, Sheol seems to be synonymous with the "depths of the earth". Sheol is sometimes compared to the gloomy, twilight afterlife of Hades or Tartarus from Greek mythology. Sheol is the common destination of both the righteous and the unrighteous dead; the righteous Job sees it as his destination (Job 3). In the Book of Job, while Satan is portrayed as tormenting and testing the living, he does not appear to have any particular presidency over Sheol, or to dwell in Sheol.

#4 TARTARUS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus

Christianity's Tartarus: In the Bible, 2 Peter 2:4, Tartarus is designated as a section of Hades that the fallen angels who had produced the Nephilim of Genesis 6 were cast into to await judgment by God. It does not figure promeninently into the doctrines of Christianity; many translations of the Bible insert Hell in the place of Tartarus. No other specific use of the word Tartarus is in the Bible, however, Jude 6 describes the abode of the same fallen angels mentioned in 2 Peter as 'total darkness'.

#5 THE LAKE OF FIRE (which means the 2nd death, the lake of fire)

See (The Book of Revelation 20:14) and also Acts Ch. 5, the story of Ananias & Sapphira sinning against the Holy Spirit.

Here we see in The Book of Revelation Ch. 20:14 where "Death & Hades" or both DEATH AND HELL are thrown into the Lake of Fire, THE 2ND DEATH, to be destroyed eternally it says HERE! So, we see that the Lake of Fire is Symbolic for ETERNAL DESTRUCTION. Much the same way Gehenna was for the destruction it caused! Nothing that goes in comes out. Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5 are both eternally destroyed for sinning against the "holy ghost/spirit" for lying to it. So, much like before they were born, they are now, neither knowing anything nor suffering.

Answer 6

Presumably the resurrection of the dead will allow them to know things again.

Answer 7

in the first instant that might be true
It is appointed once for all men to die and then the Judgment

Answer 8

Since neither place exists, no difference whatsoever.

Answer 9

"The dead know nothing" refers to the dead body--the soul is eternal.

Answer 10

None at all
Tammi Dee