“I highly suspect that when I take my last breath, I’ll return to that state. I won’t be aware of anything that happens afterward.”
– Mike Moore, Godless Cranium.
Interesting, Genesis 3:19 “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” So far, I agree with you on this matter. The bible does not teach the ideology of the soul, the everlasting spirit of a human. This is another form of Paganism making its way into the doctrine of the church.
The bible speaks of God’s breath going into us, in the current way that humans are born, we can correlate God’s breath with oxygen (along with other traces of Nitrogen, Hydrogen, etc.). Obviously God’s breath is more than that in the bible, but for purposes of the afterlife (Nonexistent), I will refer to God’s breath as oxygen. We need oxygen to survive, its purpose is to help oxygenate the blood in our body to fuel the many complex and complicated processes that the human body goes through on a daily basis.
What does Jesus have to say about death? “After he had said this, he went on to tell them, ‘Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.’ His disciples replied, ‘Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.’ Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. So then he told them plainly, ‘Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.'” John 11:11-15
Here we see something very interesting, Jesus compares death with sleep. As the story continues, for those who have not read it, Jesus ressurects Lazarus. Why, on God’s good Earth would Jesus raise Lazarus if he had been in paradise with God, himself? I think the answer is simple.
When we die, our bodies return to the dust and our consciousness remains in a sleep state. Not a normal state of which would include dreams, delta, alpha, and beta waves, but rather, a sleep with no such thought process at all!
1 Corinthians 15:52 says, “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” A twinkling can be compared to a blink here. When we die, time does not affect us and the human condition of being restricted by time will go away. This is why it will feel like a twinkling of an eye.
Another thing I find true is when we die, why would we even go directly to heaven or to hell (which I do not think [Hell] biblically exists, different topic) if Jesus says he returns and the dead in Christ shall rise? 1 Thessalonians 4:16 reads, “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.” Interesting that so many Christians believe that their souls go to heaven as soon as they perish yet believe that Jesus Christ is returning to resurrect us.
My opinion on death. When we die, we sleep. Until Jesus returns, no heaven, no hell, until after Jesus Christ comes back to resurrect those dead in him and to reclaim those who were living and truly followed his example.
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Thanks for the link and your thoughts. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this argument be made in quite this way. I’ll have to give it some thought. 🙂