Of course, not the same cells. Those atoms have long since been absorbed into the surroundings.
But about every seven years, our bodies undergo change; our old cells have died, and have been replaced. Our personality remains the same. (Some parts of our brain keep the same cells, apparently.)...
Hang on....if you say there is no afterlife spoken of in the Tanakh but there is in the Talmud, how can you say there is no contradiction? One is God’s word, the other is an interpretation given by those whose word you accept as if it were God’s.
Doesn’t interpretation involve knowing what all...
It's here: Ecclesiastes 9 BSB
So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
2It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for...
Ecclesiastes is talking about the flesh/human side of things, not the spiritual. They have no more share in what's done "under the sun", not in the spiritual realm.
Ecclesiastes9:6 (ESV Strong's) 6 Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more...
All the verses you are quoting are in the Catholic bible and in their Catechism. You're just repeating what they already believe.
The difference between Catholics and yourself is that they believe in worshiping as one body (coming together in christ) and they believe in continuous oral...
Well all I can go by is God's Written Word. Also, in Ecclesiastes9:6. scripture goes on to say. Quote: 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.'
Thanda,, all I can tell you is what the Bible teaches. What is a soul?
"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.
The Bible teaches that it takes two things to make a living soul. Body + Breath = A...
The quote in Ecclesiastes9:6 is just a confirmation of my views that Paul, in I Corinthians 15:32 was dealing with an illusion or false hope that the dead will ever return from death. I think I should have quoted Job 10:21 and 2 Sam. 12:23 that there is no coming back to a kind of afterlife.
The Bible Says
After death a person: returns to dust (Psalms 104:29), knows nothing (Ecclesiastes 9:5), possesses no mental powers (Psalms 146:4), has nothing to do with anything on earth (Ecclesiastes9:6), does not live (2 Kings 20:1), waits in the grave (Job 17:13), and continues not (Job...