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Originally Posted by peter83

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οh now i saw that  i am not sure what sleeping really means. If the soul has conscience or really sleeps? How you connect this to the "spirits in prison" and other statements like "i go to the Lord" etc. ?
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Sleeping in the dust of the earth means to be dead. The dead are not conscious.
The spirits in prison were preached to by Christ by the Holy Spirit in the days of Noah. Which means Christ preached to them by the Spirit through Noah (a preacher of righteousness), not that Christ preached to them after they and He died.
Paul looked forward to being with the Lord on resurrection day, he did not look to become a disembodied spirit.