All are from the dust, and to dust all return. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. I tell you a mystery. Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Wives and other relatives, servants, sometimes even household pets joined him in death and a supposed entrance into a new life on the other side.Belief in the immortality of the soul was an important aspect of ancient thought espoused by the Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
Belief in going to heaven or hell depends on it. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. The true final answer is not death but resurrection. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.The soul that sins, it shall die. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps, and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. “Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,
Whatever you think you know can be challenged from...The Bible teaches that you don’t have an immortal soul. They are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God.
And those men said to him, “We are unclean through touching a dead body. For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters. For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise? For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died. ... Although mankind is physical, subject to death, the good news is that God promises a resurrection to eternal life to everyone who repents, worships God and accepts Jesus as the Messiah and His sacrifice. “Theologians frankly admit that the expression ‘immortal soul’ is not in the Bible but confidently state that Scripture assumes the immortality of every soul” (Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes,1994, p. 22, emphasis added throughout). For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.
Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die. And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.