What one verse does no say about death is no evidence for what other passages tell us.
That verse sets the stage for all that follows in the scriptures.
If God had a place like heaven or hell awaiting those who sinned, then why did he not warn Adam about it? All he told Adam was that death would result, not that an invisible part of him would go on living somewhere. Because Adam’s sin was unforgivable, where would his spirit go? He was responsible for the death of the entire human race. (Romans 5:12) God gave Adam no hint of any afterlife. The Bible teaches that everlasting death is the opposite of everlasting life. Those who are incorrigibly wicked will sleep in death forever....in "gehenna".
They do speak of a living spirit part of man which survives death and sometimes it is even conscious.
Please share these scriptures and we can discuss them.
Jewish belief in the unconsciousness of death was recorded by Solomon in Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10...so please tell me how Solomon spoke of an afterlife if it was not possible to ‘think, plan or do’ anything in “Sheol”....the place where we all go. How can our “love perish”, if we go on living? “Love” is God’s most important quality....and ours. King David confirmed what his son Solomon was raised to believe. (Psalm 146:4) When we die, all our plans die with us.
Sheol or Hades in the New Testament (translated as "hell" at times) is the place where the spirit part of humans go at death. The grave is where the body goes.
Sheol and hades are equivalents according to the Septuagint. They mean the same place....the common grave...the place where we all go. “Hell” is nothing more terrifying than the grave....the place where all the dead “sleep”. Those in “hades” are not in an eternal hell, because “hades” gives up its dead. (Revelation 20:13)
Jesus calls both the “righteous and the unrighteousness” from the same place....their grave. (John 5:28-29) This is the general resurrection....bringing the dead back to life. The Bible speaks of two resurrections...one for the chosen ones, who will rule with Christ in heaven (Revelation 20:6) and one back to this life on earth for their subjects. (John 5:28-29)
Well what is it, do we go out of existence or do we sleep?
If we go out of existence then the wording in the New Testament is incorrect and it should say that God recreates us instead of resurrects us.
Jesus called it the “re-creation” or “regeneration” in Matthew 19:27-30......
“Then Peter responded and said to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?” And Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms on account of My name, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life. 30 But many who are first will be last; and the last, first. (NASB)
Jesus told Peter about the regeneration or recreation to come when Jesus takes up his kingship. He did not do so straight after his return to heaven. (Psalm 110:1-2)
The Greek word
pa·lin·ge·ne·siʹa is composed of elements that mean “again; anew; once more” and “birth; origin.” The ancient Jewish writer Philo used the term with reference to the renewal of the world after the Flood; Jewish historian Josephus used it regarding the reestablishment of Israel after the exile. Here in Matthew’s account, it refers to the time when the rule of Christ and his corulers will bring to the earth a renewal of the perfect conditions enjoyed by the first humans before they sinned. (Revelation 21:2-4)
That is the purpose of the Kingdom.
Moreover if there is nothing that goes from this life to the resurrection, the essence of the person, then what is recreated is no more than a copy or the dead person, not the same person.
God knows me and could do the same thing you suggest right now and there would be me and a copy of me, both claiming to be me.
What makes you “you”? Is it your your body? Your brain? Or your personality? What constitutes your personality? You as a person are so much more than just your body or your genetics.....”you” are the accumulation of your life experiences....there is no one like “you”. So are identical twins just the same person duplicated? Or are they simply different people in the same genetically identical body?
God can recreate a body as a easily as he created Adam, and he can restore all of our memories and personality traits in order for us to identify ourselves, and for others to identify us too.
If you want to be pedantic about it, every cell in your body is replaced every 7 years, so there is not a single cell in your body that goes on living. All are replaced or regenerated including the ones that form the brain where our memories and personalities reside. God does not require a single molecule of our original body in order to recreate us. Why are you putting limits on him?
We have a classic example of a resurrection when Jesus raised his friend Lazarus. Where did Jesus say Lazarus was?
“.....and after this He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going so that I may awaken him from sleep.” The disciples then said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will come out of it.” Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about actual sleep. So Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus died”. (John 11:11-14 NASB)
In the account it was made clear that Jesus waited for Lazarus to die so as to demonstrate what the resurrection literally means to those who would witness it. (And us who would read about it.)
If Lazarus was enjoying some kind of blissful spiritual existence somewhere else, why would Jesus bring him back to this life, only to die again later? What favor was Jesus doing him?
We cannot override what the scriptures teach in order to justify our natural desire to go on living. It was the devil who told the woman “you surely will not die”...it was God who told Adam that they would.....so where does this “immortal soul” idea come from? Not God.....and not the Bible.
