Wow, you do like the Old Testament. I dont get why so many feel that they need to post scripture, we all have Bibles, we all can read them, and many of us have read it through many times. With that said why waste the space?
Actually what the bible says is more important than what we say. The reason is that the bible is Gods word, and has power, and is sharper than a two edged sword.
2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.
With that said have any of you considered why so many are turning away from Christianity? It breaks my heart to see so many rejecting salvations because of frustration with the church clubs.
The reason many are turning away fro the churches is that they have not represented God in the way he wants. There is pagan influences many of the churches of Christendom today. And people can see this from what Christendom teaches. And how hypocritical they have become.
The churches teach an after life , but the bible does not. The dead are just dead and is it called in the bible, as sleeping in death.
Gen. 3:19: In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken.
For dust you are and to dust you will return.
Eccl. 9:10: All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power,
for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [the grave, KJ, Kx; the world of the dead, TEV], the place to which you are going.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5-6) For the living are conscious that they will die;
but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6
Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.
So the dead are just dead.
