My OperaExamining the Scriptures
Monday, May 26, 2008 12:30:59 PM
The living are conscious that they will die ; but as for the dead , they are conscious of nothing at all , neither do they anymore have wages. - Ecclestiastes 9: 5.
Since the dead "are conscious of nothing at all ," they cannot hear , see , speak , feel , or think . They no longer earn any wages . Because they are incapable of any work ! Moreover , "their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished ," for they cannot express any emotion . ( Eccl. 9: 6, 10 ) What the Bible says on this suaject is simple and clear - the dead did not continue to live somewhere . There is nothing that leaves our body at death and lives on so as to be re-born in another body , as stated by those who believe in reincarnation . We might illustrate matters this way: The life that we enjoy is like the flame of a candle . When the flame is extinguished , it does not go everywhere . It is simply gone .
Since the dead "are conscious of nothing at all ," they cannot hear , see , speak , feel , or think . They no longer earn any wages . Because they are incapable of any work ! Moreover , "their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished ," for they cannot express any emotion . ( Eccl. 9: 6, 10 ) What the Bible says on this suaject is simple and clear - the dead did not continue to live somewhere . There is nothing that leaves our body at death and lives on so as to be re-born in another body , as stated by those who believe in reincarnation . We might illustrate matters this way: The life that we enjoy is like the flame of a candle . When the flame is extinguished , it does not go everywhere . It is simply gone .
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