We are just like a computer, that when its time, we just "shut off".
This is the best that this "Intellectual" can do?? This is supposed to be the profound knowledge that an intellectual can come up with? Never really was a surprise to me though.
His statement is pretty much in line with what the bible says. The "state of the dead" is referrenced a few times in the Old Testament - the modern religious belief that you shoot straight up to heaven after dying (or down to hell) - isn't really biblical. It's based on just a few passages of Scripture that are dubiously interpreted - specifically the incidence of Jesus's words to the theif on the cross. That little comma placement changes everything.
The *state* of the dead:
Psalms 6:3-5My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Psalms 115:17The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Psalms 146:4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish
Ecclesiastes 9:5,6For 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.
Isaiah 38:18-19, "For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth."
My understanding of Scripture is that the dead are "waiting" for the second comming of Christ. This is plainly itterated here:
1 Corinthians 15: 20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. 23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.
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