Dying or not

Are there people who have no death in them? According to Scriptures nobody is going to escape death. Since what happened in Eden we all have to face pain, ageing, deterioration, dying. Immortality is not given to us worldly people.

We are all going to die, which means that we are going to cease to exist until resurrected.  In death, the grave, there is no knowledge, no remembrance, no praise. There is no extra element of us, an extraordinary being or sort ghost which is going to live on. Man is dust and to dust he returns (see Genesis 3:19; Job 10:9; Psalm 90:3).
A separate soul was not joined to a prepared body when we came into existence on this earth. We were born by receiving the breath of life.  Man became a living soul (being RSV) when the breath of the spirit of life was breathed into his nostrils. "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." (Genesis 2:7, KJV).

All our live we may have chosen to follow God, but this even lets us not live on after our death. Once we come to that point we also shall not be able to feel or do anything anymore. Even not praising God.
"For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who can give you praise?" (Psalm 6:5)
"What profit will thee be in my blood when I go down to the pit?  Shall the dust praise thee?  Shall it declare thy truth?" (Psalm 30:9) "The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence" (Psalm 115:17). We shall not be able to do anything, even not praise God. Because we would be like in a deep sleep. And we have to wait until we got woken up by Jesus like he called Lazarus (John 11:11). In "the last days", when God will show His power once more on the earth, at "a time of trouble such as never was "Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt" (Daniel 12:1-2). Some people will be raised from the dead when Jesus comes and others will sleep forever in the dust of the ground.

We die and return to the earth. If we have died "in Christ" we have that marvellous hope that we will rise again to eternal life. But that is not going to happen straight ahead after our death. That's why believers who have died in the new testament are said to be "asleep" while those who "understand not" as the Psalmist puts it have been destroyed.
Subjectively the dead have no sense of time between the moment of death and that of the resurrection. Objectively, thousands of years may have passed before they shall get resurrected.

“If (God) should set his heart on it, if he should gather to himself his spirit and his breath, All flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust” (Job 34:14,15) and stay dust, but He has given His promises and by those we do find life.

Whilst it is easy to focus on the mention of dust, and to think of the bodily corruption that occurs when anybody dies, think instead about what is being told us about life.
Life is a gift from God. He energised Adam in the Garden of Eden and made it possible for mankind to come into existence and He has perpetuated the race that Adam and Eve fathered.
Someone once said about God: “He gives to all life, breath, and all things” (Acts 17:25), and that generosity is evident all around us, all the time.  Life is the most marvellous thing we
possess: it is God’s free gift to all of us.

He gives and we receive. He is the source of life and we are creatures dependent upon Him. When our breath leaves the body, try as we might, we cannot get it back. Nobody can bring a dead body back to life: when it is dead it is dead. So here is a stark reminder of the difference
between God and mankind: He is immortal and we are not. The Bible often makes that  distinction and that is hard for some people to accept, but see for yourself.

It is our Almighty God who has given immortality to His angels and to only one man. Namely Jesus who at his return to earth will manifest in his own time.  It is this Jesus who shall appear "our Lord Yahshua the Messiah: Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting.  Amen." (1 Timothy 6:14-16 KJBPNV)

If we want it or not, we are the lesser one. We are always given up to death. “For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh” (2 Corinthians 4:11); “Here mortal men receive tithes…” (Hebrews 7:8).

God alone has inherent immortality. He is the only one who is eternal. Though certain Christian denominations proclaim that we become eternal, this shall always be impossible because we always had somewhere a beginning. And a person who had a beginning can not be eternal because that is one of the implications of eternity, having no beginning and no end.

We are mortal – dying creatures. But God, who first gave mankind the breath of life, can also give us life that lasts forever. The Bible calls this “eternal life” or “immortality” but there you have to be careful how you want to understand that immortality. Please do have before your eyes that you have two forms of immortality: 1. having no way to die or 2. the one (how I would put it and believe in) were we have the possibility in us to die but are give (by grace) the possibility to stay for ever, which is to stay a life in eternity. Here’s one of God’s promises about that wonderful
prospect: “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23). It is that life for eternal what we can get, because Jesus brought his Ransom Offer. "I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concernmg them which are asleep (he means in death), that ye sorrow not, even as the rest who have no hope .... For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven ... with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise . . ." (1 Thessalonians 4:13,16) Christ personally (note "himself") will descend from heaven; and the faithful dead will rise-from the grave of course. Here are basic teachings which are found throughout the New Testament. They are foundation truths of the Gospel. ". . . The hour is coming, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his (Jesus') voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of condemnation" (John 5:28-29).

The bad news is that we could earn death; the good news is that there is an alternative. We could be given eternal life: the chance to live forever in a perfect world. What a choice and
what an opportunity!

The reward of the righteous does not consist of some "spirit existence" somewhere; it will be the granting of an incorruptible body, one that will not waste away and perish as our present one does, but will no longer be subject to death.

Not having to endure pain or to be frightened to hurt ourselves or to die we shall be able to enter the "paradise" of the new Kingdom of peace and joy which Christ will establish when he returns to the earth.

Those who have listened to what God has to say, have taken the time to understand it, and who have made those promises their life’s aim, they shall, when they have repented and chosen to keep God's Commandments, be able to trust the Lord and shall receive the opportunity to live for eternal in God's Kingdom as true members of the family of God .

The Bible explains that we must be baptised if we want to enter the Kingdom of God and start to live with Him, here and now. It was the Lord himself who said: “unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3) and he went on to explain that this means that we must be born again “of water and the Spirit” (3:5). do not postpone it, because you never what tomorrow brings.

Dutch version / Nederlandstalige versie: Al of niet onsterfelijkheid

Ontbinding

De ontbinding (decomposition, decay)of het vergaan door bacteriële omzetting van eiwitstoffen (vooral van lijken en kadavers) (corruption of the body after death), maar ook de opheffing (dissolution, disbandment, annulment, rescission) van iets.

Under the Tag "ontbinding" we shall mainly look at the situation after death, which is discribed in the Bible as the givingup of the spirit (pneuma) (Luke 23:46) and the laying down or departure of the soul (= any living thing; AV: life; Greek: psuche) (John 10:11,15,17). After we die our body is going to decompose, decay, rot, putrefy, spoil meaning to undergo destructive dissolution. When the body is not put in an incinnerator or on a firestake the body shall slowly change from a state of soundness or humanly form to dust. It shall decompose and break down by chemical change.

decay
c.1460, from O.Fr. decair,  from V.L. *decadere  "to fall off," from L. cadere  "to fall" (Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper )
Latin decadere to fall, sink, from Latin de- + cadere to fall
: break down, corrupt, decompose, disintegrate, fester, foul, mold, molder, perish [chiefly British], putrefy, rot, spoil, fall apart, go to seed (or run to seed) (Merriam-Webster Dict.)


A gradual falling into an inferior condition; progressive decline as a result of bacterial, fungal, or chemical action. The decomposition  suggests the reducing of a substance to its component elements; and the disintegration  emphasizes the breaking up, going to pieces, or wearing away of anything, so that its original wholeness is impaired.
Often people would like not to hear that the body also can rot away. Rot  being a stronger word than decay  and esp. applied to decaying vegetable matter, which may or may not emit offensive odors.
Decay can denote partial deterioration short of complete destruction.



putrefaction, deterioration, decadence, impairment, dilapidation, degeneration.

After death the body returns to the earth, while the mind becomes inactive and leaves the person without the capacity to think, act or react. (Psalm 164:4, Ecclesiastes 9:5,10) with everybody is going to happen as with the animals and the plants, once the soul, the being itself dies, having no superiority to the rest of the creation, men shall also go to the same place (sheool, the grave) and rot away to return to dust.(Ezekiel 18:4; Ecclesiastes 3:19-20)

Onder de verwijzer of  Etiket "ontbinding" zullen wij hoofdzakelijk de toestand na dood onder de loep nemen. De artikelen zullen bespreken wat er gebeurt na de toestand van het sterven, die in de Bijbel als het opgeven van de geest (pneuma) wordt genoemd (Lukas 23:46) ook beschreven als het neerleggen of vertrek van de ziel (= levende dingen; AV: leven; Griek: psuche) (Johannes 10:11,15,17). Nadat wij gestorven zijn gaat ons lichaam ontbinden, desintegreren, vervallen, rotten, bederven. Bederven om vernietigende ontbinding te ondergaan. Wanneer het lichaam in een incinnerator of verbrandingsoven is gezet of op een brandstapel wordt gelegd kan het zeer vlug over gaan tot asse. Indien het echter begraven wordt zal het lichaam langzaam van een staat van schijnbare uiterlijke gezondheid of menselijk vorm veranderen om tot stof. Het zal door chemische verandering wijzigingen ondergaan en desintegreren.



De ontbinding is een geleidelijk vervallen tot een minderwaardige toestand; progressieve afname tengevolge van bacteriële, schimmel of chemische actie. De decompositie stelt de verminderen van een substantie naar zijn componentonderdelen voor; en het uiteenvallen benadrukt het afbrekingsproces,  het tot gaat stukken uiteenvallen, zodat de oorspronkelijke heelheid geschaad wordt.

Dikwijls zouden mensen het liever niet willen  horen dat het lichaam ook weg kan rotten. Rot zijnde een sterker woord dan verval en specifiek toegepaste op het vervallen van groentematerie, welke onaangename geuren kan teweeg brengen.
Verval kan de gedeeltelijke achteruitgang aanduiden tegenover die van volledige vernietiging.

Bederf, achteruitgang, decadentie, beschadiging, verval, degeneratie.

Na dood keert het lichaam terug naar de aarde, terwijl de geest inactief wordt en de  persoon zonder de capaciteit tot denken, te handelen of te reageren laat. (Psalm 164:4, Prediker 9:5.10) Met iedereen gaat het zoals met de dieren en de planten, zodra de ziel, het wezen zelf sterft, heeft het geen superioriteit naar het overige van de creatie, mensen zullen ook naar dezelfde plaats (sheool, het graf) gaan en zullen weg rotten om terug te keren naar stof. (Ezechiël 18:4; Prediker 3:19-20)


afsterven, bederven, in verval raken, aftakelen, bederf, verval, aftakeling, creperen, creveren,

ter ziele gaan, aas worden,

de laatste tol aan de natuur betalen, de weg van alle vlees gaan, naar het pierenland gaan, het pierenkuiltje ingaan,

What happens when we die?

The Question  of the Month by www.thisisyourbible.com is: What happens when we die?

Everybody becomes confronted with death.
Today when young people hear the bad news they often quickly change the subject or say: "bad luck". The tragedy is soon forgotten.
The middle-aged do not care to contemplate death. It is too far off yet to seem a real danger. This is Your bible looks how they react , but also how those people react when they got older, and closer to the age of dementia and deterioration.
When the end of this life is more nearby, people start wondering more. Or when something seriously happened with themselves. Often first something serious has to happen before they think of God, and after life.
Lots of people in the capitalist world accept the fact that death is the end of life. There is no escaping the reality of death. But is it really the end of everything?
Many Christians think that their soul goes straight up to an other place after they die. They either can go straight in heaven or have to undergo a cleansing first in purgatory. In the worst case they go like all the big sinners to hell.
Most people agree that we cannot reverse what has happened when a person dies. All human resources are powerless to restore a dead person to life.

But what do you think death is and what happens in death?

POSSIBLE ANSWERS:

1. - Death is like a sleep from which those in Christ will be awakened at his return
2. -Our immortal soul goes to heavenly bliss or burning hell.
3. - When we die, that's it. We are extinct forever.
4. - We are reincarnated as another person and the cycle of rebirth continues
5. - Don't know

Fill in this month's survey question at http://www.thisisyourbible.com/

This month's survey question: Heaven and Hell

Heaven and Hell: What does the Bible REALLY teach?


For centuries preachers went around bringing frightful ideas about places were people would be tortured for the sins they had done here on earth.  It has been commonly believed by most professing Christians that heaven is the abode of the righteous dead where they experience everlasting joy and happiness, and that hell is the eternal abiding place of the wicked who are subject to never-ending torment in its unquenchable fires.

This month's survey question:
Is the Bible's Hell a flaming torture chamber?

• Yes.  Unrepentant sinners deserve what they get!
• No.  The word translated hell simply means the grave.
• The notion of a fiery hell is nothing but empty superstition.
• Hell is conscious eternal separation from God, not torture in flames.
• Don't know.

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Separation from God in death, the antithesis of life

"My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?"

We know the passages that describe death in the Old Testament. It is sleep (Dan 12:2). It is total unconsciousness (Eccl 9:5). Death is the antithesis of life.
But there is something else of the greatest importance that was central to the thinking of faithful men like David and Hezekiah:

"My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O LORD — how long? Turn, O LORD, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love. For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?" (Psa 6:3-5).

"Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon? Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?" (Psa 88:10-12).

"O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh restore me to health and make me live! Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back. For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness. The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness" (Isa 38:16-19).

Death completely separates man from fellowship with God. For the faithful man or woman, this is the worst possible thing that could happen. Nothing is of greater consequence. Fellowship with God is the essence of life itself.
Life derives all its meaning from our relationship with God.
The faithful man or woman, for whom fellowship with God is life’s greatest joy, shrinks from anything that severs this holy relationship. Death is an enemy indeed.
No one knew this better than the Lord Jesus Christ. His life was fellowship with the Father in a degree that we can only try to contemplate. He walked with his Father every moment of every day. And His Father walked with him. It was an earnest of the eternal joy that God set before him.
Jesus knew, of course, that he must die to put away the sin of the world. He knew that the grave would not hold him; that he must rise to life again. But this did not diminish the full awfulness of death that loomed before his face.
His words as he entered Gethsemane were an echo of Psalm 6:

"Then he said to them, ‘My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.’

And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, ‘My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will’ " (Matt 26:38,39).

May I suggest that the cup that Jesus prayed might pass from him was not just the cup of physical suffering? It was the bitter cup of death that would separate him from his Father and his God.
Where now would be his remembrance of God? Where now would be his life of praise? Could not God transfigure him, as He had once done on the holy mount, and give him immortality without the horror of even a moment’s separation between them?
Do not holy men and women think this way?
Then the ninth hour of the next day drew near: the hour of his death on the cross, the end. Jesus must have felt the last vestiges of life slipping from him:

"And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ that is, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ " (Matt 27:46).

Why have you abandoned me to this end? You are everything to me, even life itself!
Is it not possible that this cry of Jesus simply expressed the anguish of his soul as the darkness that had settled over the land turned into the reality of his death? Heaven must have cried, too. God derives no pleasure from the death of a sinner, let alone the death of the righteous man.
In Psalm 22, the opening words of which anticipated the anguish of Jesus’ soul, the immediate context is separation from God:

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest" (vv 1,2).

In David’s case, the experience was some living death when he had sought but received no help from God; when he had prayed but gotten no answer. For Jesus, it was about to become the complete separation of death itself.
How thankful we can be that reassurance follows. God has saved the faithful before. He will do it again. He will yet be enthroned on the living praises of His people:

"Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame" (Psa 22:3-5).

God is now forever enthroned in the praises of the Son whom He delivered from the darkness of death. But for a little while their fellowship was severed. The separation of the Father and the Son by his death was a tragedy of the ages. It was not because of anything he had done. Our sins made it happen. Hear his cry from the cross and be ashamed. God forgive us!

Jim Harper (Meriden, CT)

The Christadelphian
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Does God answer prayer?

Nobody who is even faintly religious would deny that prayer Is part of the religious life. In all sorts of religions people are calling to their gods. Lots of rituals are brought forwards to attract gods or to get their attention.
In the rich countries nobody wants to know about God, but as soon as something serious happens they all start to blame God, or they start praying to Him. People who have had little to do with a church, who have seldom picked up a Bible, who have given scant attention to God, will, faced with a crisis, turn to prayer. 

Many a helpless individual, faced with the stark reality of death, has gone down on his knees in prayer. It sometimes comes as a surprise to discover that some of the most powerful men in history have been men of prayer.

There are those who pray because they are conscious of a need and recognize that God alone can meet that need. Are they right in thinking that it matters how and to whom they pray?

Does there exist  an effective prayer?

Does God answer prayer?

What are, according to you, possible answers:

- Yes. He answers all prayer from anybody about everything.
- Only about our long-term salvation not day to day trivia.
- Only if we are in covenant relationship with him.
- Yes but forgiveness is available only to those who have believed the true Gospel and been baptized.
- No. God is not interested in us or our petty problems.
- Don't know.

Now go to www.thisisyourbible.com to submit your answer.

Knowing where to go

"If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else."
- Yogi Berra

"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might,
for in the grave, where you are going,
there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom."
Ecclesiastes 9:10

"But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one.
Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God,
for He has prepared for them a city."
Hebrews 11:16

God, let me know clearly where to go
and let me focus on the right steps.
In You I have put my hope,
in You is my trust.
I look forward to the city you have prepared for me.
Take care that I may be allowed to enter in peace in Your Kingdom.
I ask you in Jesus name, amen.

Dutch version / Nederlandstalige versie > Weten waarheen te gaan
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Two states of existence before God

"There are only two states of existence before God: the flesh and the spirit, darkness and light, death and life. The unbeliever walks "according to the course of this world ... according to the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience ... fulfilling the desires of the flesh ... and are by nature the children of wrath."

John Marshall,
The New Life 

"This is a truth which must be courageously faced.
However good, in the worldly sense, however gentle or loving, the unbeliever is disobedient to God
- and it is He who judges, not we ourselves.
That is why Paul wrote: "do not unite yourself with unbelievers; they are no fit mates for you.
What has righteousness to do with wickedness? Can light consort with darkness?
Can Christ agree with Belial or a believer join hands with an unbeliever?
Can there be a compact between the temple of God and the idols of the heathen?
And the temple of the living God is what we are" (2 Corinthians 6:14-16, NEB).
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Dutch translation / Nederlandse vertaling > Twee staten van bestaan voor God
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A time for everything

Ecc 3:1  Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses.
2  He sets the time for birth and the time for death, the time for planting and the time for pulling up,
3  the time for killing and the time for healing, the time for tearing down and the time for building.
4  He sets the time for sorrow and the time for joy, the time for mourning and the time for dancing,
5  the time for making love and the time for not making love, the time for kissing and the time for not kissing.
6  He sets the time for finding and the time for losing, the time for saving and the time for throwing away,
7  the time for tearing and the time for mending, the time for silence and the time for talk.
8  He sets the time for love and the time for hate, the time for war and the time for peace.
Ecc 3:11  He has set the right time for everything. He has given us a desire to know the future, but never gives us the satisfaction of fully understanding what he does.

The Old Testament Book of Ecclesiastes has always been a favorite worldwide.

The Canadian Bible Society put the lovely scripture of the 3rd Chapter to Pachelbel's Canon in the accompanying video...and in so doing really nailed the poetry of The Book. When God's word is offered in this format, you just can't help but sit back and let it reach into your soul. This will bless you..

> Ecclesiastes 3

Dutch version > Een Tijd voor alles

Biblical Ambiguity on Death?

Biblical Ambiguity on Death?

The claim is made that on the fundamental issue as to what happens after death, the Bible is totally ambiguous.

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The Bible is very plain in its statement that the “dead don’t know anything” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) and that all of us, good or bad, are on our way to the Bible hell, where “there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom.” (Ecclesiastes 9:1-3,10)

We will all be changed

Listen, I tell you a mystery:
We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed
-- in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

1 Corinthians 15:51-53, New International Version

Dutch version / Nederlandse vertaling> We zullen allen veranderd worden

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    I'm going to be changed! You're going to be changed! We're not talking about a new wardrobe or haircut. We're not talking about a new car or a new place to live. We are talking major, heavy-duty overhaul! We're going to be made immortal. We're going to become indestructible. We will no longer be perishable goods! We're bound for glory.

    Inspire my faith, dear Lord, to trust your timing and to lean upon your grace. I believe that you not only know all the mysteries, but that you hold all triumphs in your hand. Please make me victorious, O LORD Almighty, through the mighty work of your Son. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ

Dutch version / Nederlands > Het loon der zonde is de dood; maar de genadegave van God is het eeuwige leven in Christus Jesus

“They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt; there is none that does good, no, not one.” (Ps 14:3 RSV)
“Just as it has been written: “There is none righteous, not one! None understand! None search for The God! All have turned away! They are all together useless! None are kind! Not so much as one!” (Ro 3:10-12 MHM)
“If we should ever state: “I have never sinned, ”we cause ourselves to err and the truth is not in us. Every time we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous so that He might release us from our sins, cleansing us from unrighteousness. Every time we state: “I have never sinned, ”we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.” (1Jo 1:8-10 MHM)
“However, while we were still sinners The God demonstrated His own compassionate affection for us [in that] Christ died in our behalf.” (Ro 5:8 MHM)
“He bore our sins in his body upon the Tree, so that we might discontinue sin and live in righteousness. “By his wounds you were healed.”” (1Pe 2:24 MHM)
“He entered the world of humankind, and the Cosmos came into existence by his agency, but the world of humankind did not recognize him. He came to his own, but his own did not accept him.” (Joh 1:10-11 MHM)
“But, to everyone who did accept him he authorized to become children of God, because they believed in his name. These were born, not from blood–that is, from a fleshly desire, or a male desire–but from God.” (Joh 1:12-13 MHM)
“But, we are aware that the synergy of The God is for the good of those loving The God, to those who have been invited according to His purpose.” (Ro 8:28 MHM)
“For the payment for sin is death; but, the gracious gift of The God [is] everlasting life incorporate in Christ Jesus our Master.” (Ro 6:23 MHM)

The one who makes us well and gives life

“The thief only enters [the sheep-pen] to steal and slay and destroy [the sheep]. I came so that [the sheep] may have Life, and have it beyond measure.” (Joh 10:10 MHM)

 “For the payment for sin is death; but, the gracious gift of The God [is] everlasting life incorporate in Christ Jesus our Master.” (Ro 6:23 MHM)

 “For if from the one trespass the death reigned as king because of that one [man], how much more will those who have received the rich gift of being pronounced innocent, and the free gift of righteousness, reign [as kings] in life by the one human, Jesus Christ.” (Ro 5:17 MHM)

 “For, since death is by means of a human, so also by means of a human those dead will be resurrected. For just as in the Adam all are dying, so also in the Christ all will be made alive.” (1Co 15:21-22 MHM)

 “Now [His purpose] has been made manifest by means of the Appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus. He rendered death ineffective and shed light on life and incorruption by means of the Good News.” (2Ti 1:10 MHM)

 “But the [cured] person told them: “The One who made me well, that person said to me: ‘Pick up your cot and walk about.’” They asked him, “Who is the person who told you, ‘Pick up and walk about?’”” (Joh 5:11-12 MHM)

 “For The God did not send forth the Son into the world of humankind so that he should condemn the world of humankind by means of him, but rather that the world of humankind should be saved by means of him.” (Joh 3:17 MHM)

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Human Nature: What does the Bible teach?

This month's survey question:

Human Nature: What does the Bible teach?

- Human nature is the divine spark and is basically good.

- It is inherently immortal and will live in hell or heaven forever.

- It is mortal and corrupt with no hope of life after death.

- Although mortal and prone to sin it can be redeemed by Christ.

- Don't know.

Go to www.thisisyourbible.com to submit your answer!

There is no escaping the reality of death.
 Many people find some comfort in the idea of survival.
The inescapable fact is that since the dawn of history millions upon millions of human beings have lived, died, and been laid in the grave.
If they have in fact survived in some new form, would you not have
expected to hear from them some word of consolation for the bereaved, some information about their state, or some warning for the living? Yet we never hear anything from them.


Just think what the Bible does. It records how the human race came into being and it explains in clear terms why there is evil, suffering and death in the world. It tells us positively what happens after death.
And it also reveals the new kind of life which can be ours, if we will.

All mankind will perish, unless they repent.

Only pay attention to the Bible its message.

> After Death - What?
Death and after
Destination of righteous
Sheool or grave

Your life the sum total of all your choices

"Your life is the sum total of all your choices
up to this present minute."
- Brian Tracy

"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today,
that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse.
So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,
by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice,
and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days,
that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers,
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."
Deuteronomy 30:19-20