Is knowing what death is a comfort?

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Even if to be absent in the body is not  immediate to be in the Lord, I'm ready for rest.

EDIT*** If below on what Taken seems to point @ the OP, which I did not read but giving my opinion anyway, if one is in Christ when death comes then YES IT WILL BE A COMFORT!

Absent from the BODY, means the departing OF Gods Life OUT of the Body.
A Bodily Living man WITH God, has the understanding, Once his body DIES, and Gods LIFE departs his body, Gods LIFE WILL Continue TO BE WITH God.

Why give your opinion when you are admittedly unsure (twice you used the term “IF”) and unwilling to learn the “THEN”, (which occurs after the “IF”)
and how and why the “THEN” occurs?
 

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Just like all Christians Be, born again ones have to remain faithful until death to be acquitted of sin. God grants them immortality upon their resurrection. Not a big point, but we need not think that because someone is born again, that guarantees their salvation, because several have failed. The only bad thing is they cannot be redeemed once they turn away from God. As I understand it, they sin against the holy spirit if they commit a serious sin, since they are anointed by holy spirit. I could very well be in error on this however, as I am not too well read on this topic. The Bible is vague about it. I really don't understand why they are granted immortality.

Disagree....according TO Scripture.

*** Belief...is one thing. (Called a mans WORKS)
Yes, a man who does WORKS...Believes and “IF” a man Continues those WORKS (Believing)...WHEN (and who knows when), that mans BODY DIES...
THEN” he shall be SAVED.

John 6:
[29] Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

(Notice the wording...on him whom he......by default, it is belief in God and Jesus whom God sent....remember, God SENT Jesus...not CHRIST...
Jesus was SENT....The Knowledge Jesus IS the Christ, was REVEALED.)

* Any man WHO BELIEVES ON Jesus’....on the day that man’s BODY dies:
God shall “bring with Him”...

1 Thes 4:
[14] For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

God....Brings What to Where?
* Bring that mans departed soul in BELIEF...up to God when the body dies.
* Bring that mans BODY risen up....to A renewed Earth.

Rev 20:
[5] But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

*** Conversion is another thing..(Called a mans SERVICE)
Rev 12:
[1] I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

A guarantee that a MAN WILL DO the WORKS of GOD...does not EXIST.
THE PROMISE,
“IF” a MAN DOES the WORKS of God, to the day of that mans Bodily Death, “THEN” that mans SOUL shall be Saved.
“THEN” that mans SOUL shall forever be WITH God.
“THEN” that mans SOUL and BODY shall be raised....AFTER “CHRIST’s millennial reign WITH THOSE...who bodily DIED....IN Christ.


1 Thes 4:
[16] For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
[17] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.


THE PROMISE, Of Salvation is given to men WHOSE Works (Belief) continue to the Day of their bodily Death.

THE GUARANTEE, Of Salvation is given to men WHOSE Service (Heartful CONFESSION of their Belief......AND. Laying down their Life unto Death crucified WITH Jesus) are “IN” Christ and Christ “IN” them.

Works.....is Belief IN God AND Jesus.
Service...is Confession Jesus IS the Christ.

Glory to God,
Taken
 
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Whatever and wherever hell is, it's definitely not a nice place; we could even speculate that it's the universe itself where nonchristians disembodied souls float forever, racked with terrible loneliness.
After all, they rejected Jesus and heaven, so there's nowhere else for them to go..
"Ungodly men,wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever" (Jude 1:12)

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I am going to agree Scott, it is not a nice place. but that really wasn't my question was it sir. The Bible tells us what hell is, you clearly are unaware of what it is, would you like to discuss what it is Drop?
 

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The Bible tells us what hell is, you clearly are unaware of what it is, would you like to discuss what it is Drop?

I'm aware that the scriptures tell us that hell is a terrible place, once in, never out, so what's there to discuss?.
Satan has fooled some people into thinking they'll be let out of hell after serving their time as if it was Shawshank or Alcatraz, but that ain't never gonna happen..:)

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Disagree....according TO Scripture.

*** Belief...is one thing. (Called a mans WORKS)
Yes, a man who does WORKS...Believes and “IF” a man Continues those WORKS (Believing)...WHEN (and who knows when), that mans BODY DIES...
THEN” he shall be SAVED.

John 6:
[29] Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

(Notice the wording...on him whom he......by default, it is belief in God and Jesus whom God sent....remember, God SENT Jesus...not CHRIST...
Jesus was SENT....The Knowledge Jesus IS the Christ, was REVEALED.)

* Any man WHO BELIEVES ON Jesus’....on the day that man’s BODY dies:
God shall “bring with Him”...

1 Thes 4:
[14] For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

God....Brings What to Where?
* Bring that mans departed soul in BELIEF...up to God when the body dies.
* Bring that mans BODY risen up....to A renewed Earth.

Rev 20:
[5] But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

*** Conversion is another thing..(Called a mans SERVICE)
Rev 12:
[1] I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

A guarantee that a MAN WILL DO the WORKS of GOD...does not EXIST.
THE PROMISE,
“IF” a MAN DOES the WORKS of God, to the day of that mans Bodily Death, “THEN” that mans SOUL shall be Saved.
“THEN” that mans SOUL shall forever be WITH God.
“THEN” that mans SOUL and BODY shall be raised....AFTER “CHRIST’s millennial reign WITH THOSE...who bodily DIED....IN Christ.


1 Thes 4:
[16] For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
[17] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.


THE PROMISE, Of Salvation is given to men WHOSE Works (Belief) continue to the Day of their bodily Death.

THE GUARANTEE, Of Salvation is given to men WHOSE Service (Heartful CONFESSION of their Belief......AND. Laying down their Life unto Death crucified WITH Jesus) are “IN” Christ and Christ “IN” them.

Works.....is Belief IN God AND Jesus.
Service...is Confession Jesus IS the Christ.

Glory to God,
Taken
Which one of the scriptures you posted nullifies what I said sir?
 

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Which one of the scriptures you posted nullifies what I said sir?
“Some religions teach that they are kept alive and might be undergoing torture, but again they simply are dead, not conscious of anything.”

Hi Robert ~
The Disagreement I would say is You identify ... A PERSON ... then include the SOUL regarding the DEAD Condition that applies ONLY to the BODY.

A PERSON, is expressly a Living Body, WITH a Living Soul ‘IN’ the Body.
A Dead Body, no longer has a SOUL IN the body.
A Dead Body, is no longer called A PERSON.

~ rather is called: examples: corpse, remains, deceased, cadaver, loved one...

* Agree a Dead Body, knows nothing.

* Do not Agree, the Soul, knows nothing.
* Will also mention, the Soul, DEPARTS a Dead body, the Soul Continues Living.

* A body’s LIFE is BLOOD....Mans Life Shall Die.
.....God requires a Mans Life TO Die.
* A soul Belongs to God.......Life IN the SOUL is Gods Breath.
....Gods Life Does NOT Die.

Gen 9:
[5] And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Ezek 18:
[4] Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Body’s are natural and experience a natural death.
Soul’s are spirit and experience a spiritual death.

A natural death is physical. A physical dead body, can be seen by manKIND.
A soul death is spiritual. It is a Separation from God, unseen by manKIND.

Glory to God,
Taken
 

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I'm aware that the scriptures tell us that hell is a terrible place, once in, never out, so what's there to discuss?.
Satan has fooled some people into thinking they'll be let out of hell after serving their time as if it was Shawshank or Alcatraz, but that ain't never gonna happen..:)

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What is hell then Drop, you have yet to define it sir.
 

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“Some religions teach that they are kept alive and might be undergoing torture, but again they simply are dead, not conscious of anything.”

Hi Robert ~
The Disagreement I would say is You identify ... A PERSON ... then include the SOUL regarding the DEAD Condition that applies ONLY to the BODY.

A PERSON, is expressly a Living Body, WITH a Living Soul ‘IN’ the Body.
A Dead Body, no longer has a SOUL IN the body.
A Dead Body, is no longer called A PERSON.

~ rather is called: examples: corpse, remains, deceased, cadaver, loved one...

* Agree a Dead Body, knows nothing.

* Do not Agree, the Soul, knows nothing.
* Will also mention, the Soul, DEPARTS a Dead body, the Soul Continues Living.

* A body’s LIFE is BLOOD....Mans Life Shall Die.
.....God requires a Mans Life TO Die.
* A soul Belongs to God.......Life IN the SOUL is Gods Breath.
....Gods Life Does NOT Die.

Gen 9:
[5] And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Ezek 18:
[4] Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Body’s are natural and experience a natural death.
Soul’s are spirit and experience a spiritual death.

A natural death is physical. A physical dead body, can be seen by manKIND.
A soul death is spiritual. It is a Separation from God, unseen by manKIND.

Glory to God,
Taken
People I guess out of their desires to live eternally promote that something goes on, such as satan told Eve. God on the other hand states very clearly that we die. Death is defined in the Bible, and in fact you even quoted what it is, they are simply dead, not conscious of anything, but then you go on to speak about a surviving soul.

Soul simply means breathing creature, animals, humans are souls since they are breathing creatures. All souls go to the same place upon death, like you said they are simply dead. Ecc 3:19,20

The only hope for the dead is through the resurrection, which brings the individual back to life.
 

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People I guess out of their desires to live eternally promote that something goes on, such as satan told Eve. God on the other hand states very clearly that we die. Death is defined in the Bible, and in fact you even quoted what it is, they are simply dead, not conscious of anything, but then you go on to speak about a surviving soul.

Soul simply means breathing creature, animals, humans are souls since they are breathing creatures. All souls go to the same place upon death, like you said they are simply dead. Ecc 3:19,20

The only hope for the dead is through the resurrection, which brings the individual back to life.

Bob, mankind is created with a body of flesh, and a spirit that gives life to the body, and together mankind is a living soul. While it is true that the body of all mankind is destined to die, we read also from Ecc that the spirit in man, that which gives life to the body returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 (KJV) Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

In this we understand that all life (spirit) comes from God. That isn't true only of the physical body of man, but also the spiritual life that mankind receives from God through His Spirit when man is born again. Just as God gives life to our body through our natural spirit, so too God makes man Spiritually alive through His Spirit in us when we believe. Our spirit must be made alive because Scripture tells us before we are born again of the Spirit, we are dead in trespasses and sins. The natural spirit becomes enlightened by the Spirit in us, so that we might know the things and ways of God as we live out our physical lives on this earth.

Even though our physical body is destined to death, the spirit that gives all mankind life returns to God. For the man who has never been born again and dies without the life-giving Spirit of God in them, his natural, human spirit returns to God without life. Since Christ assures us the life we receive through His Spirit in us when we are born again through faith, our spirit continues to have life through His Spirit, and no longer having a living body, our spirit returns to God alive, a living (spirit) soul. Because our human body cannot continue to live without our spirit giving life, but the spirit of humans indwelt by the Holy Spirit will return to God alive, and shall never die.
 

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People I guess out of their desires to live eternally promote that something goes on, such as satan told Eve. God on the other hand states very clearly that we die. Death is defined in the Bible, and in fact you even quoted what it is, they are simply dead, not conscious of anything, but then you go on to speak about a surviving soul.

Soul simply means breathing creature, animals, humans are souls since they are breathing creatures. All souls go to the same place upon death, like you said they are simply dead. Ecc 3:19,20

The only hope for the dead is through the resurrection, which brings the individual back to life.

Hi Robert ~

The spirit and soul and body of man are three Different things.

When the Lord God forgives, and Gives His Holy Spirit to a man...
**....He is accepting a mans DEAD body given unto Him; (including, Crucified with Jesus...and shall continue Through the first portions of the last days Tribulations send down from Heaven.
**....He is restoring the soul IN that man, that was VERY GOOD, when God BLEW it INTO that man.
**....He is giving the man a new Heart (Circumcision of the natural heart.)
**....He is giving the man Gods SEED, in the new Heart.
**....Gods SEED, births the man; A NEW spirit; (ie a new TRUTH)...Gods TRUTH.

Once, the Lord God Has Baptized a man WITH His Holy Spirit...
The man IS Called; WHOLLY, WHOLE, HOLY, body, soul, spirit.

* The body’s......LIFE....IS: it’s natural BLOOD. (Blood that stops flowing, the heart stops beating, and the body ceases Living.)

* The soul...Belongs TO God. The soul’s .... LIFE....IS: GOD’S BREATH. (Every alive body has a Living soul in it’s body, whether or not that body Believes in God.)

* The spirit.. of man IS: a mans Natural Truth IN his natural HEART’s thoughts.
(Every living man HAS a Natural spirit, his natural Truth, that which, IF, it remains Natural, shall die with his natural body.)

* The QUICKENED, spirit of a Natural man, IS: a Natural spirit that which HAS RECEIVED the SEED of God (via the Holy Spirit), and called; Born AGAIN.

* WHEN the Natural BODY DIES....it’s PHYSICAL...it’s PHYSICALLY “DEAD”.
* WHEN....a Natural BODY DIES....(several things CAN OCCUR, which DEPENDS on the Individual person)...

1) ALL livings souls WILL DEPART OUT OF A PHYSICALLY DEAD BODY.
(Remember...Life IN a soul, IS Gods LIFE....Gods LIFE DOES NOT Occupy DEAD things....God is a God of the Living.)
2) ALL Physically DEAD Body’s, will quickly begin stinking, decaying, rotting.
3) NOT ALL Departed LIVING SOULS....BELIEVE IN the Lord God Almighty...
(And as OF YET...God has NOT REMOVED “His LIFE” From ANY Soul.)
* Departed Living souls......WHICH “DID NOT BELIEVE, while IN their Living Body” are SENT to Hell, to wait for Judgement.
* Departed Living souls.....WHICH “DID BELIEVE, while IN their Living Body” are ESCORTED to Heaven, to wait for Judgement.
* Departed Living souls.....WHICH “DID BELIEVE...and Heartfully CONFESSED their BELIEF, while IN their Living Body” ARE they MADE WHOLLY WHOLE, (Wholly Sanctified) their Living SOUL and QUICKENED, Born Again SPIRIT, are ESCORTED to Heaven, to wait for The Lord to Signal their BODY to Rise UP to Him, in the Clouds.

* DEAD...does not ALWAYS mean a Natural physically BODILY Death.
* DEAD...ALSO “spiritually” means, SEPARATED FROM GOD.
* Departed Living Souls “IN HELL”, are called DEAD...Because THEY ARE Separated from God.
* A Bodily Living man, with his Living soul IN him......who is AGAINST God...
IS ALSO Called....DEAD.


Sanctified, means SET APART.
Sanctified.....Wholly, means Body and Soul and Spirit.

1 Thes 5:
[23] And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Several Times, IN Scripture....a body dies, the living soul departs....AND the living soul is RETURNED to the BODY, and the Body resumes LIVING.

You may be familiar with the case of Lazarus....Dead and Buried, for four days. Jesus arrives at the tomb of Lazarus, Jesus calls Lazarus forth to rise up, and he does....and Lazarus resumes his bodily life.

Care to ask any questions?

Glory to God,
Taken
 

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It's a vile terribly unspeakable place much like a Democrat Party Convention or a Gay Pride march..:)
Not at all sir, in actuality it is the abode of the dead. All persons who die go there awaiting a resurrection. Why do you think our definitions are different Drop?
 

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Hi Robert ~

The spirit and soul and body of man are three Different things.

When the Lord God forgives, and Gives His Holy Spirit to a man...
**....He is accepting a mans DEAD body given unto Him; (including, Crucified with Jesus...and shall continue Through the first portions of the last days Tribulations send down from Heaven.
**....He is restoring the soul IN that man, that was VERY GOOD, when God BLEW it INTO that man.
**....He is giving the man a new Heart (Circumcision of the natural heart.)
**....He is giving the man Gods SEED, in the new Heart.
**....Gods SEED, births the man; A NEW spirit; (ie a new TRUTH)...Gods TRUTH.

Once, the Lord God Has Baptized a man WITH His Holy Spirit...
The man IS Called; WHOLLY, WHOLE, HOLY, body, soul, spirit.

* The body’s......LIFE....IS: it’s natural BLOOD. (Blood that stops flowing, the heart stops beating, and the body ceases Living.)

* The soul...Belongs TO God. The soul’s .... LIFE....IS: GOD’S BREATH. (Every alive body has a Living soul in it’s body, whether or not that body Believes in God.)

* The spirit.. of man IS: a mans Natural Truth IN his natural HEART’s thoughts.
(Every living man HAS a Natural spirit, his natural Truth, that which, IF, it remains Natural, shall die with his natural body.)

* The QUICKENED, spirit of a Natural man, IS: a Natural spirit that which HAS RECEIVED the SEED of God (via the Holy Spirit), and called; Born AGAIN.

* WHEN the Natural BODY DIES....it’s PHYSICAL...it’s PHYSICALLY “DEAD”.
* WHEN....a Natural BODY DIES....(several things CAN OCCUR, which DEPENDS on the Individual person)...

1) ALL livings souls WILL DEPART OUT OF A PHYSICALLY DEAD BODY.
(Remember...Life IN a soul, IS Gods LIFE....Gods LIFE DOES NOT Occupy DEAD things....God is a God of the Living.)
2) ALL Physically DEAD Body’s, will quickly begin stinking, decaying, rotting.
3) NOT ALL Departed LIVING SOULS....BELIEVE IN the Lord God Almighty...
(And as OF YET...God has NOT REMOVED “His LIFE” From ANY Soul.)
* Departed Living souls......WHICH “DID NOT BELIEVE, while IN their Living Body” are SENT to Hell, to wait for Judgement.
* Departed Living souls.....WHICH “DID BELIEVE, while IN their Living Body” are ESCORTED to Heaven, to wait for Judgement.
* Departed Living souls.....WHICH “DID BELIEVE...and Heartfully CONFESSED their BELIEF, while IN their Living Body” ARE they MADE WHOLLY WHOLE, (Wholly Sanctified) their Living SOUL and QUICKENED, Born Again SPIRIT, are ESCORTED to Heaven, to wait for The Lord to Signal their BODY to Rise UP to Him, in the Clouds.

* DEAD...does not ALWAYS mean a Natural physically BODILY Death.
* DEAD...ALSO “spiritually” means, SEPARATED FROM GOD.
* Departed Living Souls “IN HELL”, are called DEAD...Because THEY ARE Separated from God.
* A Bodily Living man, with his Living soul IN him......who is AGAINST God...
IS ALSO Called....DEAD.


Sanctified, means SET APART.
Sanctified.....Wholly, means Body and Soul and Spirit.

1 Thes 5:
[23] And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Several Times, IN Scripture....a body dies, the living soul departs....AND the living soul is RETURNED to the BODY, and the Body resumes LIVING.

You may be familiar with the case of Lazarus....Dead and Buried, for four days. Jesus arrives at the tomb of Lazarus, Jesus calls Lazarus forth to rise up, and he does....and Lazarus resumes his bodily life.

Care to ask any questions?

Glory to God,
Taken
No sir, we disagree. Ge 2:7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
That is what I believe Taken.
 

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[Hell]......in actuality it is the abode of the dead. All persons who die go there awaiting a resurrection. Why do you think our definitions are different Drop?

Nasty people will go to hell and good riddance, but if they think they'll be let out later they might as well whistle dixie for all the good it'll do them..:)
 

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No sir, we disagree. Ge 2:7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
That is what I believe Taken.

And I believe that as well...
Step one....Man formed from Dust of the Earth...
And then step two....God breathes SOUL and LIFE into the man.
(That body, and That soul have the SAME identity...called by the Same Name...but a body and soul are not the SAME things.)

Body comes from Dust of the Earth.
Soul comes from Gods Breath.

And the LIVING Man is a BODY with a Living Soul in it...called a Person.

And A Dead Body without a Living Soul in the Body...is no longer called a Person. It is called, deceased, a cadaver, a corpse. The BODY shall rot, decay, return to dust of the earth.
The SOUL did not come FROM dust of the earth.

Once A Body is natural born...it is Named.
Once a Body receives a soul, that body is Living, and the Name of that living soul is the same as the Body’s Name.

Our difference in belief is not about A MAN, being a body.
Our difference in belief is the living soul departing a physically dead body.

Have you ever read in Scripture about a boy whose Body Died....and when God returned his soul to his body, his body resumed living?
( 1 Kings 17: whole chapter gives the background of Elijah visiting a widow woman and her son, and the highlight about her son)

Or about a woman who died, her soul departing, and her body buried?
(Gen 35: 15-20)

Or of a man whose body died and was buried, and his living soul, was in hell, speaking, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling?
(Luke 16: 16-30)

If not, Search, read what it says.

Or have you read, ALL souls belong to God, ( Ezek 18:4) and the Life of the soul is Gods Breath and Gods Life Never dies ?


Glory to God,
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And I believe that as well...
Step one....Man formed from Dust of the Earth...
And then step two....God breathes SOUL and LIFE into the man.
(That body, and That soul have the SAME identity...called by the Same Name...but a body and soul are not the SAME things.)

Body comes from Dust of the Earth.
Soul comes from Gods Breath.

And the LIVING Man is a BODY with a Living Soul in it...called a Person.

And A Dead Body without a Living Soul in the Body...is no longer called a Person. It is called, deceased, a cadaver, a corpse. The BODY shall rot, decay, return to dust of the earth.
The SOUL did not come FROM dust of the earth.

Once A Body is natural born...it is Named.
Once a Body receives a soul, that body is Living, and the Name of that living soul is the same as the Body’s Name.

Our difference in belief is not about A MAN, being a body.
Our difference in belief is the living soul departing a physically dead body.

Have you ever read in Scripture about a boy whose Body Died....and when God returned his soul to his body, his body resumed living?
( 1 Kings 17: whole chapter gives the background of Elijah visiting a widow woman and her son, and the highlight about her son)

Or about a woman who died, her soul departing, and her body buried?
(Gen 35: 15-20)

Or of a man whose body died and was buried, and his living soul, was in hell, speaking, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling?
(Luke 16: 16-30)

If not, Search, read what it says.

Or have you read, ALL souls belong to God, ( Ezek 18:4) and the Life of the soul is Gods Breath and Gods Life Never dies ?


Glory to God,
Taken
A person is a soul, an animal is a soul, all breathing creatures are souls sir, even when the breath of life goes out, they are still referred to as souls. Look it up, a the term soul simply means breathing creature. Nothing lives on after death, satan promoted that, and many people continue to promote it, but God states very clearly that we die, and defines what death is as well.
 

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A person is a soul, an animal is a soul, all breathing creatures are souls sir, even when the breath of life goes out, they are still referred to as souls. Look it up, a the term soul simply means breathing creature. Nothing lives on after death, satan promoted that, and many people continue to promote it, but God states very clearly that we die, and defines what death is as well.

A living, breathing creature is called a living soul Bob. How does the living soul have physical life? (Gn. 2:7) Souls can only be alive when the breath of life, called a 'spirit' remains in them. (Jo 6:63) When the physical body of all living creatures succumbs to death, it is because the spirit that gave them life returned to God, who gave it (Ec. 12:7). What happens to the 'spirit' within man when it returns to God indwelt with the Holy Spirit? (Jo 14:16) Does not Scripture tell us the Holy Spirit gives man eternal life? How is man's life through the Holy Spirit eternal if death means we are no longer living souls?
 

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A person is a soul, an animal is a soul, all breathing creatures are souls sir,

A man is a KIND of Created creature.
An animal is a KIND of Created creature.

The FORMED man-KIND of Creature RECEIVES a soul INTO the man.
The FORMED animal-KIND of Creature RECEIVES a soul INTO the animal.

The FORMED man-KIND of Creature’s LIFE is CALLED BLOOD.
The FORMED animal-KIND of Creature’s LIFE is CALLED BLOOD.

The SOUL IS Gods, The LIFE IN the Soul, is CALLED Gods BREATH.

* The man-KIND of Creature, With his LIVING BLOOD Life IN his BODY;
With Gods LIVING SOUL LIFE IN his Body; is CALLED a “PERSON”.

* The animal-KIND of Creature, With His LIVING BLOOD Life IN its BODY;
With Gods LIVING SOUL LIFE IN its Body; is CALLED an “ANIMAL”.

even when the breath of life goes out, they are still referred to as souls.

* A Man-KIND of creature, CALLED a Person;
WHOSE Living Soul Has Departed OUT of his BODY, IS no LONGER called:
A Person.
BECAUSE his LIVING SOUL, is NO longer, IN his Body.
His BODY IS DEAD.


* Living SOULS....IN A mans BODY....or OUT OF a mans BODY....ARE STILL CALLED.....SOULS.

* Dead Body’s KNOW nothing, FEEL nothing.

* REST IN PEACE....is a prayer for HOPE of
the DEAD BODY’S, Departed Living SOUL, IS RESTING IN PEACE WITH GOD
rather than the alternative....
of the DEAD BODY”S, Departed Living SOUL, IN CHAOS WITHOUT God.

Look it up, a the term soul simply means breathing creature. Nothing lives on after death, satan promoted that, and many people continue to promote it, but God states very clearly that we die, and defines what death is as well.

* Death of a BODY....means the BLOOD LIFE of the BODY has Ceased.
(blood can drain out of the body, the heart can stop pumping the blood throughout the body....and the body will Die....and begin rotting, Returning to Dust of the Earth.)

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The Living SOUL IN a Body...SHALL depart that DYING Body.
The LIFE IN the SOUL (Gods BREATH) continues LIVING...
WITH God, “Escorted to Heaven” to BE WITH God.

(Escorted BY a holy angel Servant of God)
Or
WITHOUT God, “Sent to Hell” to BE WITHOUT God.

(Sent BY the power of God)

* Separation FROM God...physical or spiritual...is called DEAD, whether or not the “separated THING has LIVE IN it”.

God states VERY CLEARLY...His Created creatures with BLOOD LIFE, SHALL DIE.

The SOUL may or may not LIVE forever.
The SOUL “WITH” God SHALL Live forever...
The SOUL “WITHOUT” God SHALL Forever BE Separated FROM God.

The Judgement and Sentencing OF ALL LIVING SOULS, (in or out of Body’s) has NOT YET come to pass.

Man-KIND IS a formed BODY, of DUST.
Man-KIND receives INTO his BODY, a SOUL from God, with Gods Breath of Life.
Man-KIND “can” also receive INTO his BODY, Gods SEED, to birth a man A Spiritual Spirit.

The “WHOLE” of a man-KIND of creature....IS
The body of man.....become made glorified.
The soul of man.......become made restored, called saved.
The spirit of man......become made quickened, called born again.

ALL, the body, the soul, the spirit OF man, become MADE “changed”,
BY the Power of God.
The “changing”, by the Power of God....is a man’s guarantee....
That the WHOLE of that man...body, soul, spirit...SHALL LIVE FOREVER...
WITH God.
 

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A man is a KIND of Created creature.
An animal is a KIND of Created creature.

The FORMED man-KIND of Creature RECEIVES a soul INTO the man.
The FORMED animal-KIND of Creature RECEIVES a soul INTO the animal.

The FORMED man-KIND of Creature’s LIFE is CALLED BLOOD.
The FORMED animal-KIND of Creature’s LIFE is CALLED BLOOD.

The SOUL IS Gods, The LIFE IN the Soul, is CALLED Gods BREATH.

* The man-KIND of Creature, With his LIVING BLOOD Life IN his BODY;
With Gods LIVING SOUL LIFE IN his Body; is CALLED a “PERSON”.

* The animal-KIND of Creature, With His LIVING BLOOD Life IN its BODY;
With Gods LIVING SOUL LIFE IN its Body; is CALLED an “ANIMAL”.

Created bodies of every living creature upon the earth became a 'living soul' when the spirit from God (breath of life) is breathed into them. Without both flesh and spirit, no breathing creature upon the earth is a living soul. Without a spirit in them every created creature upon the earth would be a DEAD soul, not a living soul. Which is what the body of man would have remained if God had not given them a spirit by His own breath of life (Spirit). You confuse soul as spirit. Though similar they are not the same, as you make them. It becomes confusing because when a man is indwelt by the Holy Spirit when they are born again of the Spirit, man continues to be a living soul after the body dies. But the man who dies without the Spirit in them, becomes a dead soul. Because every spirit in man returns to God who gave it (Ec. 12:7) when our body dies. The one dying without the life-giving Spirit of God in them, returns to God without life. Only the man indwelt by the Spirit of God continues to be a living soul with spiritual life through the Spirit in them.

The breath of life that came from the Creator given man is defined as - divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal:—blast, (that) breath(-eth), inspiration, soul, spirit.

This intellect comes through our mind, that equips man with divine inspiration that means man understands the supernatural force that enables man to both know and have a relationship with the Creator. The breath of life from the Creator Spirit, is defined both soul, and spirit because the spirit life in man can continue to be alive after the body dies if man dies in faith. Because only the faithful, all who have been born again, possess the Spirit from Christ. Since the life man receives through the Spirit from Christ in them is eternal, our spirit can never die. In death our spirit being alive through the Spirit from Christ leaves our mortal dead body, and ascends to heaven a spiritual body, also a living soul.

When man disobeyed God, the breath of life man possessed through the Creator was lost forever, and man's spirit became without ability or understanding to live forever with God. Man lost what he had received through the Spirit from the Creator, became like that which was created (the serpent), therefore, now natural, no longer with the ability to have a relationship with the Creator. For without His divine inspiration, man's spiritual ability to commune with God is lost forever. Man became as spiritually dead through sin, and that's why man must be born again of the Spirit to have eternal life and once more be able to commune and live with God forever.