Please allow me to correct you here...it is his interpretation of scripture that he presents....I believe he has swallowed 'the immortal soul doctrine' hook, line and sinker....like every other religion, no matter the label. It is a favorite ploy of the devil to offer people what they want....people don't want to die, so he gives them a way to go on living by misinterpreting scripture and ignoring the verses that tell us differently.
The Bible does not teach a "heaven or hell" scenario.....it teaches everlasting life or everlasting death....that's it. This is Christendom's version of the Bible....it has nothing to do with what Jesus taught.
No, it is congruent with what this person has been led to believe that the Bible teaches. Israel was never offered a "heaven or hell" afterlife.....Jesus was Jewish. He taught from Jewish scripture.
Deuteronomy 30:15-20....
"Behold, I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil, 16 inasmuch as I command you this day to love the Lord, your God, to walk in His ways, and to observe His commandments, His statutes, and His ordinances, so that you will live and increase, and the Lord, your God, will bless you in the land to which you are coming to take possession of it.
17 But if your heart deviates and you do not listen, and you will be drawn astray, and you will prostrate yourself to other deities and serve them, 18 I declare to you this day, that you will surely perish, and that you will not live long days on the land, to which you are crossing the Jordan, to come and take possession thereof.
19 This day, I call upon the heaven and the earth as witnesses [that I have warned] you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. You shall choose life, so that you and your offspring will live; 20 To love the Lord your God, to listen to His voice, and to cleave to Him. For that is your life and the length of your days, to dwell on the land which the Lord swore to your forefathers to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob to give to them." (Tanakh)
Life or death.....its our choice. We cannot serve other gods or practice false worship....or we will perish.
There is only one truth. A resurrection is what what Jesus performed on his friend Lazarus.....he was dead for four days and Jesus called him out of his tomb. (John 11:11-14)
We have Christ's promise in Revelation 21:2-4...
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea is no more. 2 I also saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”
5 And the One seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new.” Also he says: “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”
A "new earth" is promised (2 Peter 3:13)...not a new planet, but a new "cosmos"....a new world of mankind where all the things (and people) that cause sorrow and pain will be gone. Those approved by God will live...those not approved, will forfeit life. There are only two roads......all of us are on one or the other. (Matthew 7:13-14)
The "new heavens" are not a new universe but a new ruling authority over mankind...God's Kingdom, seen bringing blessings to those on earth.
A very misquoted scripture seeing as how Solomon, (who wrote it) did not believe in life after death.
As a Jew, he believed that the "spirit" in man was the lifeforce that animated him whilst ever he breathed.
Jews believed in a resurrection, not in an immortal soul that went on living....you cannot resurrect a person who has not died. Immortal souls do not die.
Solomon also wrote...
"For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for their remembrance is forgotten. . . .Whatever your hand attains to do [as long as you are] with your strength, do; for there is neither deed nor reckoning, neither knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, where you are going." (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10 Tanakh)
Only God can restore the breath (spirit) that animates a soul. In the resurrection, Jesus will call the dead from their graves, because they are all still in them. They haven't gone anywhere. (John 5:28-29)
Solomon did not say that just the body goes into the grave, but "you" meaning the whole person. As with Adam, Solomon believed that life ends when the spirit or breath leaves the body. If you have ever sat with a dying person, that last breath is something you will never forget. The "soul" that is the whole person, dies. (Ezekiel 18:4)
There is no mention of immortal souls in the Bible. It was adopted from false religious ideas by Judaism and also by Christianity from Platonic Greek influence.
It is our experience in studying the Bible that those who defect from God adopt the ways of those who practice false worship.....but the true worshippers of God will never adopt things from paganism because they know how God feels about that. Christendom is full of pagan adoptions and they will soon see how God responds to what they believe and practice. What the world is celebrating now, has nothing whatever to do with Jesus Christ. We cannot mix true worship with false worship and expect God's blessing. (2 Corinthians 6:14-18)
He leaves us in no doubt about that.