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Hi @Naomi25, I have only now read your OP, and have not read all of the responses that you have received, so if I repeat what others have said, I apologise. * My first thought is that the parables of Matthew 13 are described by the Lord, as 'The mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven' or 'of God'...

Hello @MatthewG, With respect, and a great deal of love, you are like a little hedgehog who curls himself up and hides when danger threatens. You do it by surrounding yourself with words. I am sorry that you feel threatened by what you have heard from myself and from @quietthinker, but please...

Hello @MatthewG, With respect, that is your 'thinking', your 'feeling', whereas this thread is dealing with the 'facts' concerning what happens at death. Feelings and thoughts are nebulous, it is only Biblical fact that has any soundness. Thank you In Christ Jesus Chris

Hello @stunnedbygrace, Yet, the thread is concerned with physical death, and not the state whereby the unbeliever is reckoned to be 'spiritually dead', isn't it? :) Thank you In Christ Jesus Chris

Hello @MatthewG, The spirit is breath, the breath of life, it has no substance. Thank you In Christ Jesus Chris

Hello @MatthewG, Our spirit, or 'the breath of life' which energises us, goes back to God Who gave it. It is life giving breath, not a disembodied spirit. Our Lord Himself commended His spirit to God too, in Luke 23:46. Thank you In Christ Jesus Chris

Hello @MatthewG, I prefer to search these matters out myself through my own Bible Study, for only then can I be sure that the information I am receiving is sound. Thank you In Christ Jesus Chris

'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.' (Gen 2:7) Hello @MatthewG, God says in Ezekiel 18:4:- 'Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the...

Q) Where do people go to when they die? Hello @MatthewG The soul is not immortal, it can and does die (Ezekiel 18:14). There is only One Who has immortality as we are told in 1 Timothy 6:14-16. Ecclesiastes 12:7 tells us that the body (which is made of dust) goes back to dust, and the spirit...

'Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' (Heb 11:1) Hello @I.O.U, * Believers of old believed God: and we believe God too, Whom we know cannot lie. We believe the testimony of God concerning His Son the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 1:1-4). * Also the...

'If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, Who is our life, shall appear, then shall...

'If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.' (1 Cor. 15:19-20) Dear Nancy, I praise God that you know and echo the thoughts of my own heart, for we, as those who have...

'For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not...

I hope you will not mind my entering this here, but I thought it was so moving. If it is not the appropriate place for it, please delete it. Thank you In Christ Jesus Chris

1 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the sea. There’s a kindness in God’s justice, which is more than liberty. 2 There is welcome for the sinner, and more graces for the good. There is mercy with the Savior, there is healing in his blood. 3 But we make God’s love too...

Faith, Hope and Experience were walking along a wall. Hope was fine as long as he kept his eyes on Faith, but when he turned around to look at Experience he fell off the wall, along with Experience, but Faith went walking on. :)

Hi @Nancy, Time and time again the Lord has had to hoist me up from the depths of despair I have felt at the depravity of my old nature, and set my eyes back on the surety of His promises. We see and experience the Old nature for it is familiar to us, it consists of flesh and blood, and has...

@Truman @amadeus Hello there, Yes, these are hard times, but like Peter who walked upon the water to His Lord, we must keep our eyes upon Him, and not look at the waters swirling around our feet, otherwise we will sink. We will begin to see our own frailty and loose sight of His strength, of...

@Nancy 'Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; And make straight paths for your...

@Nancy Dear God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, We thank you for Nancy, and lift her up before you now, knowing that you love her and that she is ever before your eyes. Please bring to her memory all that she has been blessed with in Christ Jesus Her Lord, and remind her of the Rock upon...