there are scriptures that look like there is life straight after death but they can be explained and they are far out weighed with the resurrection of the dead being the hope of Christianity. The promise is That we wont perish but have eternal life through the resurrection.
It was believed in the old testament too. Hear is just old testament
scriptures.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the
ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust
shalt thou return.
Everyone loves to say ,"yea , that's just the body that goes to dust. The
thing is , the scripture doesn`t go on to say he receives our soul , it says
that he receives our spirit which is simply the omnipresent breath of life.
Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity?
for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning,
but I shall not be.
why would jobs say to god , that god wont find him because he would be dead.
If he would have been with god.
Job 17
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in
the dust.
Job 34:15
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Psalm 104:29
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they
die, and return to their dust.
Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall
return unto God who gave it.
The spirit is not the soul of a man but rather the breath of life that god
puts in a body and that creates a living soul.
Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake
and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the
earth shall cast out the dead.
Daniel 12:2
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.
Deuteronomy 31:16
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers;
2 Samuel 7:12
And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I
will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and
I will establish his kingdom.
Job 14:12
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall
not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Psalm 13:3
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the
sleep of death;
I thaught I would throw this in as well as that one about not raising untill the new heaven and earth.
It is new testament but I put it hear for those that believe the myth that jesus went into the underworld and freed the spirits there.(which is purely greek and eygptian mythology)
This one in acts is way after jesus resurrection so jesus didn`t take david
with him.
Acts 2:34
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord
said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
(That was after the resurrection.)
Celtic
It was believed in the old testament too. Hear is just old testament
scriptures.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the
ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust
shalt thou return.
Everyone loves to say ,"yea , that's just the body that goes to dust. The
thing is , the scripture doesn`t go on to say he receives our soul , it says
that he receives our spirit which is simply the omnipresent breath of life.
Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity?
for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning,
but I shall not be.
why would jobs say to god , that god wont find him because he would be dead.
If he would have been with god.
Job 17
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in
the dust.
Job 34:15
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Psalm 104:29
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they
die, and return to their dust.
Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall
return unto God who gave it.
The spirit is not the soul of a man but rather the breath of life that god
puts in a body and that creates a living soul.
Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake
and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the
earth shall cast out the dead.
Daniel 12:2
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.
Deuteronomy 31:16
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers;
2 Samuel 7:12
And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I
will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and
I will establish his kingdom.
Job 14:12
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall
not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Psalm 13:3
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the
sleep of death;
I thaught I would throw this in as well as that one about not raising untill the new heaven and earth.
It is new testament but I put it hear for those that believe the myth that jesus went into the underworld and freed the spirits there.(which is purely greek and eygptian mythology)
This one in acts is way after jesus resurrection so jesus didn`t take david
with him.
Acts 2:34
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord
said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
(That was after the resurrection.)
Celtic
They went to Abraham's Bosom, to await the coming of the Messiah.
