Bible verses about life after death => http://pricebimfus.nnmcloud.ru/d?s=YToyOntzOjc6InJlZmVyZXIiO3M6MjE6Imh0dHA6Ly9iaXRiaW4uaXQyX2RsLyI7czozOiJrZXkiO3M6MzU6IkJpYmxlIHZlcnNlcyBhYm91dCBsaWZlIGFmdGVyIGRlYXRoIjt9 Jude 1:21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. It will be a body that is not subject to disease and death any longer. How can we know the way? But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. There is no escaping hell. Take a look at this related article: Resource — Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, King James Version Article by is a wife, mother and grandmother. I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming—and is now here—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. Will the departed spirits rise and praise Thee? But all who have been adopted into God's family through faith in Jesus Christ will be given new life 1 Corinthians 15:20-22. How many people will actually know the truth about how to receive it? Then we shall live and not die. Ezekiel 18:20a The soul that sinneth, it shall die. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. If Jesus, the Sadducees and the Jw's all take the identical view of the dead, how did Jesus' argument prove anything? What Does the Bible Say About Afterlife? - Romans 5:15-16 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. Is the soul conscious after death. This is not a new question. For centuries there have been certain religionists who have contended that the soul existed after death but that it was not conscious. Upon investigation, some of you may be surprised to know of the wide-spread belief in the teaching of the sleeping of the soul. Because of the universal interest in the whereabouts of the dead, false sects prey upon the public, claiming complete knowledge of the subject. Such statements as the following are but a few of the distortions and perversions of the Holy Scriptures that have to do with the soul after death. These ideas were read into the Bible, but were never in the mind of the inspired writers. Man Is Created to Endless Existence Every human being enters the world possessed with endless existence. It is true that at death the soul is separated from the body. It is not consistent with the teaching of the Bible to say that at death the soul lapses into a state of complete unconsciousness or even into a deep sleep. If at first glance it would seem that the Bible teaches this, then we will do well to examine those passages where death is referred to as sleep. The few texts that mendacious scholars have dislodged from their context in order to prove that physical death is the cessation of all consciousness can be easily and understandingly explained when interpreted in the light of the many other passages that deal with this subject. Certainly we all agree that a dead and deteriorating body has absolutely no consciousness of anything past, present, or future. We believe that this method using a text to support a false theory that elsewhere is denied in Scripture, proves that those who stoop to such methods either are untruthful or deficient. All go unto one place; for all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again Ecclesiastes 3:20. Now we know that this verse is speaking of the body, for in the next verse we read: Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward. Never once does the Bible refer to the soul sleeping. Where some fall into danger is in identifying man merely with his body and in ignoring the fact that he is a triune being. Man is a trinity; body, soul and spirit. Now the body is not the whole man. Therefore it cannot be concluded that the death of the body is the death of the whole man. Another misconstrued verse is found in the prophecy of Daniel where we read: 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 Daniel 12:2. Some scholars question whether this verse has anything to do with physical resurrection. Gaebelein in his commentary on Daniel says that if physical resurrection were taught in this verse, the passage would clash with the revelation concerning resurrection in the New Testament, for there is no general resurrection for the righteous and wicked together. Physical resurrection is, however, used as a figure of the national revival of Israel in that day. They have been sleeping nationally in the dust of the earth, buried among the Gentiles. But at that time there will take place a national restoration, a bringing together of the house of Judah and of Israel. It is the same figure as used in the vision of the dry bones in Ezekiel 37. This vision is employed by men who have invented the theory of a second chance and larger hope for the wicked dead to back up their evil teaching; but anyone can see that it is not a bodily resurrection, but a national revival and restoration of that people. Their national graves, not literal burying places, will be opened and the Lord will bring them forth out of all the countries into which they have been scattered. The same distinction holds good which we have already pointed out. The great mass of Jews, who cast their belief in God and His Word to the winds, who accepted the man of sin and acknowledged the wicked King, will face everlasting contempt, but the remnant will possess all things promised to them and become the heirs of that Kingdom, which is prepared from the foundation of the world. And besides the national blessing which they receive, they will be in possession of everlasting life, for they are born again. However, even if the above interpretation of verse two is not correct, but a physical resurrection is intended, certainly Daniel would not be referring to anything except the resurrection of the body. We are not to conclude for his body. And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose Matthew 27:52. Jesus said: Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead John 11:11, 14. Death to our Lord was never anything more than sleep. It is a figure of speech that bible verses about life after death Bible applies, for there is never bible verses about life after death pause in our consciousness. It was the body of Lazarus that was dead. Only a little over three decades before, Christ had come from the presence of the Father, His spirit having taken its abode in the body prepared by God in the womb of the Virgin. He came to bring life and immortality to light through His Gospel. He came, not to bring immortality, but to reveal it and to show man that he could have everlasting life. He offered His life a ransom for sin, and then departed this life. Jesus knew that His Father was watching, listening eagerly and intently; so with every confidence He spoke to the Father with the consciousness that His task was well done. Here Christ is teaching the world the survival of the spiritual part of man after his physical body has died. Death to Jesus was but a passage into the presence of God, not a cold unconscious condition. He knew all about life and death, and He left us with divine assurance that only the body dies. The spirit continues to exist in a bible verses about life after death state. Let us give consideration to the malefactor hanging on the cross next to the Lord Jesus. This man had not joined the jeering mob, but instead he acknowledged Christ in the face of the Roman opposition. The world shall never forget the words which Jesus answered the dying thief. Jesus assured him that before that very day had come to a close, he would still be alive and with Christ in Paradise. These words of Christ from the Cross manifest the supreme confidence that He had in a place of blissful life immediately after the believer takes his departure from this earth. The death of the body is the gateway into a fuller and larger life into which the soul passes. There will be no sluggishness nor insensibility after death. The soul, the spirit, and the mentality never sleep, and that is why we dream. In that great study that is called the bible verses about life after death of dreams, it is conceded that all dreams are the result of past experience. The past experiences may be either mental or physical, but all dreams are predicated upon some past event. When the body succumbs to the influence of sleep, the spirit or soul, in which is resident the consciousness of self, goes off on the amazing peregrinations that men call dreams. The martyrdom of Stephen is a strong argument in favor of the supremacy and the survival of the spiritual part of man. He knew that he was entering into another sphere of the living. This disciple of Christ did not seek to postpone death or to fight it off. His murderers held no fear for him. It is the assurance of immortality and eternal life that enables the servants of Jesus Christ to bear suffering, face all opposition, and die if they are called upon to do so. The scoffing and the scorning of the enemies of Christ can never cheat us out of the presence of our Lord and the place that He has prepared for us. The Apostle Paul gives us a glimpse into his inner life in an experience that appears only once in all of his writings. It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, whether in the body, I cannot tell, or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth; such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell; God knoweth; How that He was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter 2 Corinthians 12:1-4. So personal and sacred was this experience that Paul is reticent to tell. There is no doubt that the mighty Apostle is referring to himself, although he refers to himself in the third person. There is the atmospheric heaven in which the birds fly, the heaven where the stars shine, and the third heaven, called paradise, where God is and where His glory is set forth. It was into the third heaven, into the presence of God, where the great apostle was taken. There the Jews stoned him and dragged him outside the city supposing he had been dead. It is generally believed that his experience in paradise to which he refers took place at Lystra while he lay unconscious. It is possible to be fully conscious and yet be absent from the body. Each time He approached the dead and spoke to him as if he were alive. In each case Jesus speaks to the person as if he were alive. We can only answer that each was alive. The man was not dead. No man is ever dead when his body lies dead. Both men died and were buried. Though their bodies were in the graves, each of them was alive and conscious. The rich man in Hell could see, hear, speak, and feel Luke 16:19-31. There is a life after death. The unsaved and the saved will be separated from each other. The lost will doubtless carry with them some memories of the past, and their retribution for rejecting Christ will be endless. But let the believer take courage and be comforted. When we move out of this tabernacle, the real man will leave the body and enter into the presence of the Lord. He was pastor of Highland Park Baptist Church Highland Park, Michigan until the end of 1963 when he resigned.