My thoughts on Death from What I Have Come to Understand So Far: A short Response to Mike Moore

“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.

Check out more topics like this on Mike’s blog! http://godlesscranium.com/

A Response to Jick/Jack’s Letter about Science and the Disbelief of the Metaphysical

Hey Jick,

 

I understand that when presented with the ideas of meta-physicality, one is often very skeptical. Why believe on anything beyond reality? For every claim of a person who has seen a ghost, or has heard a voice, science has proven (through the study of the brain) that these are simply figments of our imagination. I have a different opinion. I believe that the metaphysical is part of the physical mind. Why would our brains have the capabilities of creating these actual visual and audio “hallucinations” if there was not a purpose for it. Through studying science, one must remember that the amount of information the Universe has to offer is very vast! I do not expect 40 years of science to explain a world that is proposed to be billions of years old. How could anyone take a Gnostic position of the existence or nonexistence of a Deity when the very study and “Scientific Breakthroughs” of today are literally less than a Century old? Are we as humans that arrogant, that we can solve and explain the entire Universe in less than a century? This is where my point becomes clear. If humans are arrogant and claim that these breakthroughs discredit the existence of a Deity, and we have only begun to research, why is it so hard to believe that a world made by a Deity who transcends time could have done all these billions of years of Evolution/Creation/Scientific things in a 6 day period. If the bible says that the tree of knowledge would make us “like God”, it is a clear explanation as to why humans think they can solve billions of years of information in a short amount of time. You see? Scientists are more like God than they would like to believe, this is so Biblical, Quranical, Torahnical, that it is scary. Humans are so like God that they understand morals and the way morals work, but if the God of heaven created Good and Evil and the humans have gained access to this knowledge, it would make sense that we as humans have a God-Complex. “Who needs a God when we are just like him, made in his image, with the knowledge of Good and Evil?” This is where humans miss the important  fact that they themselves are bound to mortality. Regardless of moral or immoral lifestyles, the wages of sin is death. What humans also do not understand is that the simple fact that a Deity would send their son, a major part of themselves, to pay for the sin itself is quite amazing. Now the question in my mind remains, why would God send his son? Was it love, was it to give humans the opportunity to be immortal once more? These are some of the scientifically unexplained answers that only faith and practice of faith can answer. Every day, I focus on trying to find answers to these questions, but I must accept the fact that there will always be more answers than questions that any one human can think of. I hope this sparks inquiry and that I will get a response from you soon.

 

Sincerely,

 

Alexander Capo