No it does not.
Genesis 3:19 indicates no such thing.
Neither does Psalms 146:3-4…. If it did, after the verse says “his spirit departs / goes out”, it would say “and the person goes with it.” But it doesn’t. It agrees with Genesis 3:19.
And Ecclesiastes 3:19-20..”they all have the same spirit / breath.”
Eccles 3:18 I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. 19 Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?
When we look at Ecclesiastes we see that we shouldn't be just picking out sentences or phrases and saying they are the truth without looking at the context. If I did that I would say that "Everything is meaningless" is the truth.
Eccles 3:19 shows us what God brings humans to see. That we have the same fate as animals and we die just as animals do and rot away to dust. That our spirit is not immortal just as the spirit of an animal is not and nobody can tell if an animal's spirit goes down into the earth and our spirit goes upwards.
With faith in other parts of God's word we know that life is not meaningless and even though we die there is a resurrection and our spirit goes upwards and does not just go out like a candle.
The only difference, is that humans, alienated as we are through imperfection, have the hope of the resurrection. John 6:44.
So I guess really then, to you and many others, God was omitting a whole bunch of information to Adam.
To you also God omits a whole bunch of information for Adam.
Nothing about resurrection or what death is. Nothing definitive about a saviour. For Adam he is going back to the dust and that is it. That is the same as it is for JWs and even though JWs admit to the other information that Adam did not have they deny things about the spirit that we have from later revelation.
And I’m pretty sure that your version of Scripture that you use (since most do), says “hellfire” or fires of hell or similar.
Matthew 18:9
What are you gonna do with that?
You haven’t said one thing about hellfire.
Was that Adam’s destination? If so, that’s a big omission!!
Not explaining any life after death, would be an omission / lie!
I know Matt 18:9 has Gehenna and that Gehenna is a rubbish tip and burn off site. And yes God does not say anything about that. But I see all these things that God has not told Adam as not lies but just omissions for the time being. Those revelations came later to humanity. But you are determined to say that God was lying to Adam with all these omissions. I guess you don't really think God was lying with all those omissions, and more. You really do know about progressive revelation. Maybe you have heard that argument about God lying by omission from the WT. They have strange reasoning.
You want to believe in *immediate* life after death.
I’d like to think that way, too…. I don’t like knowing that my loved ones are not existing right now, that their bodies are the only thing left, and turning to dust…but I know the truth about death. It is the “enemy” (1 Corinthians 15:26), not the portal to another realm. (That’s ancient Greek philosophy, not truth.) My grandma and all the others are in the safest place: God’s memory. Through His Son, He will resurrect them, all who are in ‘Hades / Hell, the sea, and death.’ Revelation 20:13-14
It has nothing to do with what I want. The state of the dead is a bit of a mystery but we know from scriptures it is not annihilation. Death is an enemy. The first death is that of the body. The soul does not die then. It is as Matt 10:28 says. If someone kills our body they cannot kill our soul.
Unfortunately for the JWs, when someone kills our body in JW theology, they have actually killed our soul.
So you have a plain scripture that contradicts JW theology.
What does the WT do about that?
1) Take the eye off that part of the verse so that JWs don't really notice it and claim the verse is only speaking about whether a person has an immortal soul or not.
2) Make up a story (found nowhere in scripture) that the soul stays alive in the memory of God.
So who is making God a liar now?
Existence in hades it seems is not a very satisfactory existence and humans are not complete without a body. Nobody wants to spend eternity there. Resurrection and the final judgement is the only kind, just and merciful way to go.
2Cor 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
6 Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7 For we live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
Our earthly tent is our mortal body. Our eternal home is our glorified body in which we are swallowed up by life.
Rev 6:9-11 speaks of the souls of slain saints under the altar.
Heb 12:22 Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels 23
in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
1Cor 2:11
For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Romans 8:16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Job 32:8 But it is the spirit in man,
the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.
Numbers 16:22 And they fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
We have a spirits that are more than just a life force. They are what lives in us and our bodies are our tent, our clothing.
Our spirits are what is born again now so that we can be children of God now. (John 3:6) Now it is our body which is carnal and at the resurrection we are adopted fully as children of God by receiving our immortal body. (Romans 8:23--which the WT has altered in the NWT)
God is the God of our spirits, the part that is alive. God cannot be God of dead material, our bodies. (Num 16:22)
etc. Do I need to explain each passage to you? I shouldn't but I guess the truth of them is hidden from you.
