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What does it mean to be “alive”?

Genesis 2:7

Dust + Breath = Living Being

A living being, person, or creature nephesh A living being, person, or creature

You don’t have a soul. You are a soul.

“Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.” Acts 2:41

What does it mean to be “dead”?

Genesis 3

“Then the dust will return to the earth as it was and the spirit will return to God who gave it.” Ecclesiastes 12:7

ruwach Wind, breath of air

Being - Breath Death =

Psalm 104:29

“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also.” James 2:26

What is death like?

John 11

“Consider and hear me, O Lord my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death.” Psalm 13:3

1 Corinthians 15:51-52

How deep is sleep?

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6,10

“His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his plans perish.” Psalm 146:4

“The dead do not praise the Lord, nor any who go down into silence.” Psalm 115:17

When do we wake up from the sleep of death?

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

“Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.” John 5:28-29

Does the soul ever die?

1 Corinthians 15:51-54

“…He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, who no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. 1 Timothy 6:15-16

“The pagan doctrine of the immortality of the human soul crept into the back door of the church.” -William E. Gladstone

What does God say about communicating with the dead?

Deuteronomy 18:10-12

“The fundamental principle of spiritism is hat human being survive bodily death, and that occasionally, under conditions not yet fully understood, we can communicate with those who have gone before.” John Authur Hill “Spiritualism: It’s History, Phenomena, and Doctrine.”

“Spiritualism says that the dead know more than the living “Spiritualism says that the dead know more than the living. ‘And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die.’ In this, as in many other Bible passages, the Devil told the truth and the Lord is in error.” -E. W. Sprague, Spiritualist

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

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