Jonathan Bailey
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Old Testament and the Jews.
According to the Old Testament, what happens to people when they die?
Do they just sustain an eternal unconscious death?
Death is as much a mystery to the human mind as life itself and perhaps more so.
We can't think through the minds of the dead as living entities in the flesh.
We can't see the world from the point of view of the dead.
We can't hear through dead person's ears.
We can't ask the dead of their death experience and expect to receive an answer from the dead person's lips. We can't ask the dead, "What is it like to be dead?"
Are the dead temporarily or permanently conscious or unconscious?
We living really know not much of the dead for a fact except what we can observe with our own senses. DEATH is a presumed state in the minds of the living anyway. No heartbeat, no breathing: the person is legally declared "dead". We can only observe the physical aspects of what we presume to be "death" and not the spiritual aspects.
Tom Berenger's sergeant character really posed a profound question his soldiers in the film Platoon, "What do you know about death?"
What is DEATH really?
According to the Old Testament, what happens to people when they die?
Do they just sustain an eternal unconscious death?
Death is as much a mystery to the human mind as life itself and perhaps more so.
We can't think through the minds of the dead as living entities in the flesh.
We can't see the world from the point of view of the dead.
We can't hear through dead person's ears.
We can't ask the dead of their death experience and expect to receive an answer from the dead person's lips. We can't ask the dead, "What is it like to be dead?"
Are the dead temporarily or permanently conscious or unconscious?
We living really know not much of the dead for a fact except what we can observe with our own senses. DEATH is a presumed state in the minds of the living anyway. No heartbeat, no breathing: the person is legally declared "dead". We can only observe the physical aspects of what we presume to be "death" and not the spiritual aspects.
Tom Berenger's sergeant character really posed a profound question his soldiers in the film Platoon, "What do you know about death?"
What is DEATH really?
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