What happend when a man die? Is the soul immortal? Where are the dead?
1. God created the first human being named Adam from dust and breath, then the human became living soul
Genesis 2:7
And the
LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Psalms 104:29,30
Thou hidest
thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return
to their dust.
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou
renewest the face of the earth.
2. When someone die, the dust becomes dust again, and the breath returns to God. The soul cease to exist.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Job 34:14,15
If He set
His heart upon man, if He gather unto himself His spirit and His breath;
All
flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Ecclesiast 3:20
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Psalms 146:4
His breath
goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
3. The dead dont know anything. They will not take part in the next events anymore.
Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Whatsoever
thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device,
nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou
goest.
4. The dead ones dont come back to their home anymore. They are in their graves in the earth.
Job 7:10
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Job 10:21,22
Before I go
whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of
death;
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death,
without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
5. The Bible calls the death 'a sleep'. It will last till the resurrection.
Job 14:10-12
But man
dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
As
the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
So man
lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake,
nor be raised out of their sleep.
6. The dead ones are all in the earth. They are not on any heaven or hell.
Daniel 12:2
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
John 5:28,29
Marvel not
at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall
hear his voice,
And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the
resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of
damnation.
Isiah
26:19
Thy dead
men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye
that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast
out the dead.
7. The dead ones do not praise God
Psalms 115:17
The dead
praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
8. The dead ones will not become alive again till the second coming. They will not be be resurrected before that.
1 Thesalonians 4:15,16
For this we
say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto
the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
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.
9. Only God is
immortal. The bible never says the soul is immortal. The soul could be destroyed
and die in the second death.
Mathew 10:28
And
fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather
fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Ezekiel 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.
10. We will be judged by our deeds. That will decide our fate - eternal life or eternal death.
Revelation 20:12-15
And I saw
the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and
another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out
of those things which were written in the books, according to their
works.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell
delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man
according to their works.
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second death.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of
life was cast into the lake of fire.
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