quietthinker
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The record tells us there are two ingredients in the human creature.I Agree Good Post!
(Soul Sleep) a false teaching of (Ellen G. White) in 7th Day Adventism, and (Charles Taze Russell) of the Jehovah's Witnesses
What is soul sleep?
by Matt Slick | Jul 4, 2009
Soul sleep is the teaching that when a person dies that his soul “sleeps” until the time of the future resurrection. In this condition, the person is not aware or conscious. The Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Seventh-day Adventists hold to this doctrine as do most conditionalists (those who say that the wicked are judged and don’t exist anymore). But the Jehovah’s Witnesses teach annihilation. This means that after death a person ceases to exist. At the future resurrection, they maintain that the soul is made again. Basically, it is a re-creation of the individual. The Seventh-day Adventists teach at the soul is simply inert and resides in the memory of God.
1 ...Dust of the Earth.....the basic elements
2....Breath (Spirit) of God....the animating force (power)
...the resulting product a soul (human being)
Genesis 2:7 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.
Note: ...he didn't receive a soul, he became one.
I don't think this is difficult to understand and it certainly isn't complex.
At death the reverse happens, the dust returns to the dust and the breath (the animating energy) returns to God. This energy is not an entity in itself anymore than the electricity that lights up a globe is an entity. When you turn the power off the light goes nowhere; it just ceases to be.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
All other views on this matter have been adopted from paganism.
We are mortal, meaning, subject to death. We certainly are not immortal.
1 Timothy 6:16 Only God has immortality.
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