Before you lies a dead person. Be it friend, relative, or stranger.
You know this person has passed on and yet?
Someone who should know says this one is alive "Somewhere."
Didn't Jesus say the dead are asleep in the grave?
I'm not looking for a tirade of abuse. I know the answers.
Just want to see if you do.
This is a several part symposium.
Jump in where you like..............But prepare well as mine comes from the bible. Nothing else will be considered.
If it works well, it will be continued, if not, thanks for your time.
Will you enjoy it?
2006-09-13 07:52:38 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i dont know much about religious becasue i'm not religious. I know about different religions and I know a great deal about them. I grew up christian and I know it very well - I simply do not practice it.
2006-09-13 07:55:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The dead are unconcious with no thoughts or feelings
ECCLESIASTES 9:5 & 10 & PSALM 146:4
The only hope for the dead is a future resurrection onto the earth
JOHN 5:28,29 & PSALM 37:29
Lazarus had been dead for parts of four days but didn't say anything about being anywhere else when Jesus raised him
JOHN chapter 11
(verse 24 shows that his sister believed in a future earthly resurrection)
To say that a person or personality survives in some way after death is an extention of the lie that Satan first told Eve
(GENESIS 3:4) He said that she wouldn't die but she did.
Beliefs should ALWAYS be backed up with Scripture
Honest-hearted ones will check them up
I look forward to your next question :)
2006-09-16 10:31:33 · answer #2 · answered by New ♥ System ♥ Lady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. When the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Jesus then enlarged on that basic truth by saying that the dead can neither love nor hate and that “there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in [the grave].” (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10) Similarly, Psalm 146:4 says that when a man dies, “his thoughts do perish.” We are mortal and do not survive the death of our body. The life we enjoy is like the flame of a candle. When the flame is put out, it does not go anywhere. It is simply gone.
2006-09-13 08:05:30 · answer #3 · answered by Rachel B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes...Eccl.9:5; eccl.3:19-22; Psalm 146:4; are good references to back up the condition of the dead. John 5:28,29, speaks of what will happen to the dead, as does Acts 24:15... Psalm 37:11,29 speaks of our future hope for mankind and the earth.
I am sorry that I don't have time to quote those scriptures, but I keep getting interrupted and I am now about to have to leave for the book study. Maybe I can expound on this later. I look forward to installment #2. Thanks
2006-09-13 10:17:21 · answer #4 · answered by wannaknow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree Jesus did talk of lazerath being asleep when he was dead but he new he would be waking him again I do not think he used the term generaly the old testiment talks about Kings sleeping and being laid with their ansesters we will all be woken on the last days so in that sence I supose you could say it is only a temperary death ??
2006-09-13 08:08:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the Bible says, all dead will sleep until Judgment Day, but humans still need to think of their loved ones in a better place to sooth the grief.
2006-09-13 07:55:02 · answer #6 · answered by roamin70 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the cross, Jesus told one believing convict that he would be with Him in paradise that very day. So, for the believer to die is for that one to be with Christ.
God is the God of the living, not the dead. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It is written that He IS the God of them, not that He WAS the God of them.
Jesus told the story of Lazarus and the rich man. It was not a parable. The rich man was in hell after death.
2006-09-13 08:00:23 · answer #7 · answered by TubeDude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus tells of the rich man and Lazarus; they were real. God said I am the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob.... not was.. so this means the dead survive as souls and spirits.. to be later reunited with their bodies, which are in the grave.
2006-09-13 07:57:05 · answer #8 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes the bible does state that the dead is asleep in Jesus until judgement day then the dead will rise
2006-09-13 07:58:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are waiting for the Second Coming of Christ, meanwhile once we die we either go to Outer Darkness or to Paradise to await our final judgment.
2006-09-13 08:02:57 · answer #10 · answered by mommyem 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ROFLMAO
The dead are dead, if you are speaking of flesh!
They sleep and will never (get this) Never wake!
They are dead!
The spirit is with the lord and has never died!
Only passed from flesh to spirit!
2006-09-13 08:05:06 · answer #11 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋