So you believe in soul sleep,in which case scripture calls you a heathen
You say those in Rev 6 are the over comers in a sense you are correct ,but where you are wrong is that they are those who have died for the Word throughout time.
Who did Christ preach to when He died?
I Peter 3:19 "By which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison,"
These spirits that Christ preached to in prison, where the spirits of the saints that died prior to His death on the cross.
Now let's do Paul again
I Corinthians 15:16 "For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:"
I Corinthians 15:35 "But some man will say, "How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?"
Paul is now going to tell us what happens and we bury them in the ground. Pay attention so that you will understand and there will be no confusion. So if you believe in the resurrection, than how does it happen? Where does it take place, and with what body does the dead rise?
We are talking about the physical body and it's change. In other words, what happens to the flesh after death, and the soul after it has departed from the body?
I Corinthians 15:36 "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:"
It is important to understand the word "quickened", Remember in verse 22 Paul stated; "in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive." This Greek word for "quickened" is the same Greek word for the "coming alive". It means that all, sinners and saints are made alive through Christ. It doesn't mean that the soul is raised to eternal life, for the soul is not the subject here, but the question is what happens to the physical body?
It means to "revitalize" [# 2227 in Strong's] the soul, and become conscience and ready for judgment. This doesn't mean that all souls are saved, but that all souls are given life to continue as they were. If that soul was lost, it will still be lost, but the final death will not take place until after this age of the flesh is over, after the Millennium age, and the Great white throne judgment is finish. Then will be the time of the "second death" or the death of the lost souls. It means that the soul has put off the flesh body, and put on their spiritual body, but their soul is still condemned to death if it is not in right standing with God.
I Corinthians 15:44 "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body."
There is a natural body, which is your flesh body, and there is also a spiritual or soul body. The two are different and when the natural body, or flesh body dies the spiritual body is "raised", or in the Greek text "egiro, awakened, become active from its death". You have two bodies, one natural body contains your spiritual body, and that spiritual body is awakened to a new life, when the flesh or natural body dies and releases your soul. Your spirit and your soul are together, for the spirit is your "self", "the intellect of your soul" which houses your spirit within you.
Your spirit never leaves your soul, even at the death of your flesh body. Satan does not have any power over your spiritual body, but only your flesh body. Man and Satan can tare this flesh body to peaces and cause you to do all sorts of things, but no-one can damage your soul, not man, not Satan nor the angels. God is the only one that can destroy the soul and that comes at the end of the Millennium age, following judgment. However through deception Satan can cause you to sin against God, and thus be in trouble before the Almighty God. But that is why we have repentance in the name of Jesus to become right-standing before the Father again.
It just can't be made any clearer than Paul has made it here. You have two bodies, the flesh and the spiritual bodies. When the flesh body dies, then the spiritual body is awakened and come alive within itself. It starts to live a life without the baggage of the flesh body confining it to the limits of the flesh.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 "Then [at death] shall the dust [flesh body] return to the earth as it was: and the spirit [spiritual body] shall return [instantly] to God [Father] Who gave it."
Ecclesiastes 9:5 "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
This is written by Solomon to the flesh man that walks under the sun, and when the life of the flesh is over, it has no more knowledge or thought than a stick or rock. It is useless, but the soul that is within it is gone and with the Father.
If you can't see it nothing else I can do
Everything you said is based on traditions, since you have no idea of what the scripture you quote means.
I, a soul, sleep every night. Man does not HAVE a soul. He IS a soul. In the grave, he's dead as a doornail, with absolutely no consciousness. There are probably about 50 verses that equate a dead saint as being asleep, mainly because, when he awakes, it will seem like he's been asleep.. Dead non-believers just rot away.
There is nothing in these verses that would indicate that Christ did this while in the grave. He was dead as a doornail between His death and His resurrection. If He wasn't, we couldn't identify with His death. Man is totally unconscious between death and resurrection. In vs 18, Christ was quickened, resurrected, before He visited the spirits in prison. He did that during His ascension.
1Pe 3:18-19
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh,
but quickened by the Spirit:
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By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
All the 1Cor quotes are true, of course. Some of your preachy definitions are true, but the last one is atrocious and possibly heretical. Your definition of Eccl 12:7 is about the most non-Biblical thing I've ever heard. You obviously spent too much time in Church, to come up with these heresies. I can't believe you came up with the following. Nothing there is worth discussing. Everything there is invented by you. Paul absolutely DID NOT say what you said in your analysis. There is NO scripture that says anyone will have 2 bodies at the same time.
"There is a natural body, which is your flesh body, and there is also a spiritual or soul body. The two are different and when the natural body, or flesh body dies the spiritual body is "raised", or in the Greek text "egiro, awakened, become active from its death". You have two bodies, one natural body contains your spiritual body, and that spiritual body is awakened to a new life, when the flesh or natural body dies and releases your soul. Your spirit and your soul are together, for the spirit is your "self", "the intellect of your soul" which houses your spirit within you.
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Your spirit never leaves your soul, even at the death of your flesh body. Satan does not have any power over your spiritual body, but only your flesh body. Man and Satan can tare this flesh body to peaces and cause you to do all sorts of things, but no-one can damage your soul, not man, not Satan nor the angels. God is the only one that can destroy the soul and that comes at the end of the Millennium age, following judgment. However through deception Satan can cause you to sin against God, and thus be in trouble before the Almighty God. But that is why we have repentance in the name of Jesus to become right-standing before the Father again.
"It just can't be made any clearer than Paul has made it here. You have two bodies, the flesh and the spiritual bodies. When the flesh body dies, then the spiritual body is awakened and come alive within itself. It starts to live a life without the baggage of the flesh body confining it to the limits of the flesh."
The Bible says, when you die, your SPIRIT returns to God, NOT YOUR SPIRITUAL BODY!!!! Eccl 12:7. After you die, your physical body rots and becomes part of the dirt. You then are in the naked state and exist ONLY through your spirit that God has collected from you. The existence of a soul is non-Biblical pagan bull, as is "hell." You are given a spiritual body ONLY at resurrection. This is the crux of 2Cor 5:1-9. Paul didn't want to die and be in the naked state, with no body at all, like EVERYONE that ever dies will be. He expected (or, hoped) that, during his lifetime, Israel would repent, Christ would return, the Rapture would happen, and he would never have to go through this naked state in the grave.
Unbelievers are NEVER resurrected. They have already been judged and will never stand in any judgment Ps 1:5. The reason believers can be resurrected and be judged is that God has and is protecting their spirit, the record of their saved life and the essence of the dead soul (dead person).
Every word in the Bible is inspired and, also, is true, except for the 8000+ figures of speech and all the parables. To say Eccl is untrue is heresy. God is not the author of confusion or a liar. If Eccl weren't true, He would be both.
We are told in Rev not to add to or subtract from the Words in this book, Some say it only pertains to Rev. I say it pertains the the whole Bible. We are also told that No Scripture can be of any private interpretation. From all those parentheses in your quotes, it is obvious that you are guilty of both. Probably 3/4 of what you wrote was ADDED ON and of private interpretation and, therefore, everything you wrote is just imaginary fluff.
When the Bible is silent, we must also be silent.