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Did you read the title of this thread? If we make this passage literal, 14 Irresolvable Contradictions arise.
Show me the verse where it says "the use of named individuals in any passage automatically makes that passage literal".
I'll wait.
The Scriptures are clear: at death, the Spirit indeed returns to God (Ecc. 12:7 KJV), but nowhere does it say the Soul "continues after physical death" - the reason is found in Genesis 2:7 KJV, which says the Soul comes into existence as a consequence of the union of the body and the Breath of Life, which stands to reason that, at death, when the Spirit returns to God and the Body to dust, THE SOUL CANNOT BUT CEASE TO EXIST.
Did you miss that part about "the resurrection"? That's not at death, but the end of the world.
Have you read what the intrepid William Tyndale said to PAPIST SIR THOMAS MORE who used this same text in the same way as you're using it to "prove" immortal soul nonsense? It's AWESOME:
“The true faith putteth forth the resurrection, which we be warned to look for every hour. The heathen philosophers, denying that, did put forth that the souls did ever live. And the Pope joineth the spiritual doctrine of Christ and the fleshly doctrine of philosophers together, things so contrary that they cannot agree no more than the spirit and the flesh do (agree) in a Christian man. And because the fleshly-minded Pope consenteth unto heathen doctrine, therefore he corrupteth the scripture to establish it.
“And when he (Sir Thomas More) proveth that the saints be in heaven in glory with Christ already, saying, “If God be there God, they be in heaven, for he is not the God of the dead”, there he stealeth Christ's argument wherewith He proveth the resurrection: that Abraham and all the saints should rise again, and not that they souls were in heaven; which doctrine was not yet in the world. And with that doctrine, he (More) taketh away the resurrection quite, and maketh Christ's argument of none effect.
“Nay, Paul, thou art unlearned. Go to master More and learn a new way. We be not most miserable, though we rise not again; for our souls go to heaven as soon as we be dead, and are there in as great joy as Christ that is risen again. I marvel that Paul had not comforted the Thessalonians with that doctrine if he had wist (known) it – that the souls of their dead had been in joy – as he (comforted them) with the (words of) the resurrection, that their dead should rise again. If the souls be in heaven, in as great glory as the angels, after your doctrine, master More, show me what cause there should be of the resurrection?”
Wow! Once again, like in so many other of your beliefs, you "Protestants" are found agreeing with the papacy and fighting Protestantism - which is why I always say, just give it up, go get a copy of the Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, then make an appointment with a priest to join the catholic church.
