CoreIssue
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This was in response to the question "What happens when a man dies?" But it is totally incorrect. Man is comprised of body, soul, and spirit. Introducing the word "flesh" simply leads to confusion. The soul and spirit are immaterial and imperishable. Therefore physical death is the SEPARATION of the soul and spirit from the body.
The body goes into the grave, but the soul and spirit either go to be with Christ in Heaven (for those who are in Christ), or to Hades (the abode of departed spirits without Christ). So the soul does not go into the ground, and that is the false doctrine of Soul Sleep.
Since Hades is in the lower parts of the earth or the heart of the earth (near the core of the earth, not a pit in the ground) Paradise was never in Hades. Paradise has always been in Heaven (after the Fall), and it called *the Paradise of God*.
I'm not introducing anything. It's already in the Bible.
And we been over the soul and spirit issue more than once. The soul is not eternal spirit is. Soul is your emotions etc. spirit is you.
Go review the definitions again.